New Open Ed Resource from NBC
NBC has organized their video and primary source archives of news stories under discipline topics for higher ed. This appears to be a great resource for topic-specific reporting. They also […]
2010
Massachusetts Higher Ed Commissioner Concerned About Public Higher Ed
The link below is a short audio of an interview played on WFCR Amherst, MA public radio this morning. The Commissioner focused on the gap between increasing public higher ed […]
Education Nation 2010
This upcoming live program is to take place Monday, Sep 27, at 2pm EDT, streaming live on MSNBC. More information to come! Education Nation 2010
Professional Day Evaluations
Evaluations of the professional day “Promoting Civility and Shared Responsibility in the Classroom: Tools and Strategies for Success” have been compiled and are available under the “Evaluation” tab, above. Overall, […]
CTL Fall Schedule
Here is the first version of the CTL Fall Schedule. Follow-up links and documents from the Sep 1 professional day will be posted shortly – thank you to all who […]
An Hour on the Internet
This is across all demographics…
Comm Colleges Affected by New Fed Rules
There will be a webinar on the new regs in the CTL on Tue, Aug 24, 3pm. A couple that may impact us are the “gainful employment” terms, and the […]
Scores Stagnate at High Schools – WSJ.com
This Wall Street Journal article confirms what many in the classroom are already aware of: high school students are largely unprepared for college work. The data is from the ACT, […]
Series on Plagiarism – NYTimes.com
Below is the link to a whole NYT series on Plagiarism. BCC is looking into adopting a plagiarism student tutorial in Moodle. An instructor could opt to suggest or require […]
Classroom disruptions – faculty perspectives
Here is an interesting online discussion of some of the challenges and solutions that a group of professors shared. Note that the date is 1997, so texting, etc. is not […]
