My first experience with online learning was in July 2003 as a student. This was before the emergence of online social networking as we know it today. We were not Linked In and we were not finding all of our long-lost classmates and cousins on...
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This past week, there was an article in InsideHigherEd about a professor who found herself yanked from her biology classroom at Louisiana State University after students complained about her exams.
Over the years I have given a great deal of thought to grading, incentives, and fairness. One anecdote will illustrate what started me on the road to thinking about how.
As I've said before, critical thinking is important, but if the students can't figure out how to put their ideas down on the page in a readable way, then no one will care if they thought critically. Even if I explain all of this to...
I am one of those people, I use a Mac. My schools and online students do not know this, as I am mainstream about most things loaded on it. I.
The fact that there is a primetime TV show about community colleges is another sign that these institutions are now part of our mainstream life and popular culture. In a.
[private]Pedagogy is the art of getting people to learn. As college professors, teaching people how to learn is at the heart of our profession. The activities we assign need to be geared toward that end, and so this post is about tips for creating effective...
This week is Spring Break. Well, sort of. No, it is, but not necessarily for me. It's break for some schools, some instructors, some kids, but not all of them..
Piss Poor Prof, also known as Burnt-Out Adjunct, describes the adjunct as being "the academic equivalent of a fry cook." http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009/06/15/adjunct Then there is Dr. Burton Fletcher, who calls adjuncts "the.
One of the schools I teach for originally had a canned curriculum from which all instructors taught . The content was good overall and obviously written by professionals. There were a few assignments that seemed to always cause confusion, but I quickly learned to just...
