News: Seed of Doubt
This is a report of a study to “refute” the Dept of Ed meta-study that student results of online (particularly hybrid) courses is superior to on-campus courses. Unfortunately, the authors […]
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Behold the Twinkie!
BCC Nursing Instructor Mary A. has challenged her Nutrition students to make a prediction: what will an unwrapped, unrefrigerated twinkie look like at the end of the semester? What’s YOUR […]
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Ways of Dealing with Disruptive Students
Here are some tips from Ferris State University (Source: http://www.ferris.edu/fctl/Docs/DealingwithDisruptiveStudents.pdf) Ways of Dealing with Disruptive Students Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance (V. Ruggerio)—most of the […]
Are we being homogenized by Web 2.0?
In a review of Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget, Michael Agger of Slate Magazine discusses the author’s premise, which is that the new Web tools like Wikipedia, Facebook, […]
What is Moodle?
This short video introduction to Moodle gives a little of the history and background of Moodle. Moodle Tutorials ::: Educating Educators – A general Moodle presentation. Posted using ShareThis
How Interactive Technology Can Help Minority Students Learn – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
How Interactive Technology Can Help Minority Students Learn – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education Posted using ShareThis
Blog U.: Laptop Bans Are a Terrible Idea – Technology and Learning – Inside Higher Ed
Many faculty are struggling to limit distraction in the classroom – should we ban laptops? Joshua Kim (one of the best ed tech blogs going) says no. What do you […]
Relevance of competencies
Core competencies, anyone? The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently asked employers who hire at least 25 percent of their workforce from two- or four-year colleges what they want […]
Your zipcode reveals all
This article about college admissions is pretty enlightening, and uses some good quantitative reasoning. I found it somewhat shocking that colleges can pretty much guess the student’s economic status just […]
