BCC Spring Professional Day – March 6
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Assessment
Higher education assessment resources, including formative and summative assessment, retention measures, student success measures
WordPress as a Student Eportfolio 1
This post begins a series exploring how WordPress (hosted by Edublogs for BCC) can serve as a student eportfolio. This post describes three justifications for considering a blog platform for […]
Student Success at Rural Institutions, Jun 26th Webinar
Student Success at Rural Institutions Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:00 to 1:30 PM (EDT) – bring your lunch! In the CTL (K210), Berkshire Community College Presenter: Heather Bouchey Director, Leahy […]
More on Flipping the Classroom
This video is from a K-12 Math class, but in 3 minutes, makes the point. One can easily see how flipping and a hybrid course would dovetail well. Spend 3 […]
Free Assessment webinars by tk20
Three new assessment webinar archives are on the tk20 site; just click “watch it now” for the webinars of interest: Transforming a Paper Assessment Process 12/11, 1pm CDT Joggeshwar (Jogy) […]
Massachusetts Vision Project Report Released: “Time to Lead”
“Today, more than ever, Massachusetts’ knowledge economy depends on a highly educated workforce and on research that drives innovation….Progress has been made, but in too many areas we are not […]
Be the Grader of the 20 millionth paper and win $2000!
It’s not often that a vendor offers us a chance to win $2000, which includes an additional $2000 donated to scholarships. The deal is: grade your papers using TII’s Grademark, […]
Online Learning study from Babson: “Conflicted”
An interesting short study from Babson based on responses from 4500 faculty across 2- and 4-year institutions, plus 590 adminstrators, about the effectiveness of online learning. Points of interest include […]
Links for “Academically Adrift”
Here is a link to a deli.ci.ous stack (page of links) exploring the study and several of the commentaries on it. This study was published in January 2011, and the […]
Core Competency Groups Meet at BCC
Thirty full- and part-time faculty met at BCC today to review core competency samples of student work. The student work – including a mix of excellent, average, and poor levels […]
