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I first learned about David Allen’s Getting Things Done a couple years ago when I participated in a leadership development program for healthcare managers at UnityPoint Health. Since then, I have incorporated many of the strategies, and they have helped me become much more productive and have very low levels of stress and anxiety. In
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In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen describes a decision making model called the “Customer Buying Hierarchy.” The Hierarchy helps buyers evaluate a product and make a purchasing decision. In this post, I describe this decision-making process and how it can be used in education. From Product Attributes to a Decision-Making Hierarchy
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No one expected this on March 1, to be conscripted and then sent immediately to the front lines of online teaching. I certainly didn’t; for me, having to transform a class in video production into a fully remote experience has given me a few sleepless nights, and I’ve been at this online learning game for
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As schools throughout the United States continue to provide online instruction in response to Covid-19, it is important to continue engaging with students in the online environment, both to provide academic instruction and support and also emotional and psychological guidance. Instructional Presence In online education, instructors are encouraged to develop “instructional presence” by providing information
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As many schools throughout the United States continue to provide education online in response to Covid-19, they will eventually need to create and administer online exams. As they do so, they will need to know how to create online exams and how to ensure exam integrity. Popular Computer-Based Platforms There are many computer-based exam platforms,
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In response to Covid-19, education across the United States is moving online. I have created a brief handout on how to transition to the online environment. (Click on the first image to download the full document as a PDF.) Does your school need help transitioning to the online environment, contact me for consultation and instructional
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My university is celebrating 100 years! In honor of this history, we have suggested developing a “centennial project” to collect 100 statements about teaching – personal statements from 100 professors about what motivates them to teach. The idea is based on the popular NPR show This I Believe and the This I Believe book collections
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On Oct. 14-15, 2019, I attended the Assessment Institute at IUPUI in Indianapolis. I wrote about the keynotes addresses and about the importance of equity in assessment in a previous post. In this post, I’m going to describe a few assessment trends I noticed at the conference. “Grand Challenges Facing Assessment Practitioners” The lofty title
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I attended the Assessment Institute at IUPUI in Indianapolis on Oct. 14-15, 2019. According to its website, the Assessment Institute is the oldest and largest assessment conference, with over a thousand attendees and 400 institutions. I previously attended the Institute in 2017, and it was great to learn about new information and to reconnect with
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SMHEC (South Metropolitan Higher Education Consortium) is a partnership of several colleges, universities, and community colleges in the South Chicago area – visit the SMHEC website here. On Oct. 11, 2019, SMHEC held its second annual Regional Faculty Development conference in Joliet, IL. I served on the planning team for the conference, and I would
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