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In this post, I am continuing my series of topics on the College Consortium. Click here to read Part 1 of Participating in the College Consortium. Or, click on the Academic Technology category on the right (or on the bottom, for mobile) to see all posts about the College Consortium, including my conference presentation at
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In this blog post, I am continuing my description of recent workshops and conferences I attended. In May, I attended the NISOD Conference on Teaching & Leadership Excellence in Austin, TX, and I gave a conference presentation about the College Consortium, an online course sharing platform. NISOD Conference The annual conference provides resources to community and technical
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In this post, I am continuing my series of topics on the College Consortium. Click here to read my previous post about the conference presentation I gave at NISOD about the College Consortium. Or, click on the Academic Technology category on the right (or on the bottom, for mobile) to see all posts about the
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In this blog post, I am continuing my description of Spring workshops and conferences I attended. In May, I spoke at the NISOD Conference on Teaching & Leadership Excellence in Austin, TX. A Strategic Alliance with the Online College Consortium My presentation focused on my school’s partnership with the College Consortium. The College Consortium is
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I’m continuing my description of Spring workshops and conferences I attended. In this post, I describe the most interesting sessions I attended at the FSI Conference at the University of Illinois. Check out my previous post about the keynote presentations at this conference and about the presentation my colleague and I presented. Laurie M. Erickson “Critical
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In this blog post, I am continuing my description of Spring workshops and conferences I attended. In May, my colleague (C. Andrew Glenn) and I attended the “FSI: Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology” Conference at the University of Illinois (see FSI website). We presented on how we manage course development contracts using DocuSign and Quality
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Hello, Everyone! Spring was a very busy time for assessment and technology projects, and I stopped blogging for a while. I am back now, and I would like to describe a few workshops and conferences I attended. The first one is the HLC Workshop “Emerging Leaders in Assessment.” The workshop was held in St. Charles,
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This week, I am continuing my commentary on the most important challenges in higher education. Is college worth it? Versions of this question, about the value of college education, have always existed. But people who chose not to go to college in the past could still have successful livelihoods by working on the farm, going
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Welcome to the new year! Last week, I was asked to comment on important challenges in higher education. Here are my thoughts… Being responsive to student/community needs in terms of knowledge/skills development and timeliness. As academic institutions develop, revise, and assess academic programs, I hope that they do so with the educational needs of students
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There are many ways to measure student learning. Two categories of measurement (or assessment) are “direct” and “indirect.” As the terms suggest, whether a measurement is direct or indirect depends on whether you are judging work produced by the student. Most class activities such as exams, essays, assignments, and projects are direct, while student reflections,
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