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Comment on The Innovative University by Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:47:17 +0000

Interesting, and precisely one of the reasons I chose to do my undergraduate at MWU. One point I think many of these books over look is the idea of empowering the students to own their own education and make educated decisions about what kind of learning experience they want. I had no desire to be 1 of 300+ students being taught by a very frustrated grad student and a disinterested professor. This doesn’t mean, however, that a highly motivated student who wanted a research career wouldn’t be better suited going to a larger research university. However, incoming students obviously need more guidance before going to university in order to come up with some general direction or preference, even if it might change later down the road. There are many things had I known before I would have changed and many I would have left the same. Some have to be learned by experience, but there are quite a few that I believe could have been taught and explained before hand. We always want to fix the system, or the teachers, or the adjuncts, or the grad assistants…I’m baffled why we seem to ignore the end user so much and treat them as such a passive player in shaping the educational framework. Students are rarely as conscious a consumer as they should be nor do I feel they are often expected to be.

Comment on The Innovative University by Robert Rycroft

Robert Rycroft — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:15:03 +0000

“While promotion is driven largely by one’s scholarship, the vast majority of faculty here (>90% I would guess) care deeply about their teaching and put the majority of their professional effort into it.” I agree with the part of that sentence after the comma and disagree with the part before the comma. We still promote faculty with no publications. Scholarship is at most 25% of the promotion process.

Comment on Training First Years to be Intentional Learners by An APGAR Test for Students :: Agile Learning

An APGAR Test for Students :: Agile Learning — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:55:33 +0000

[...] consider how the five actions described in the questions might (or might not) help her learn. As Steven Greenlaw points out, this can help students, particularly first-year students, become more intentional learners, which [...]

Comment on Redesigning My Intro Course by Hello World! | Dissecting a Course

Hello World! | Dissecting a Course — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:33:00 +0000

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Comment on The Tyranny of the Contact Hour (or is it the Tyranny of the Text?) by Hello World! | Dissecting a Course

Hello World! | Dissecting a Course — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:32:02 +0000

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Comment on High Impact Learning by Hello World! | Dissecting a Course

Hello World! | Dissecting a Course — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:29:45 +0000

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Comment on High Impact Learning by A DTLT Today Weekly Round Up (9-2-11) | bavatuesdays

A DTLT Today Weekly Round Up (9-2-11) | bavatuesdays — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:27:52 +0000

[...] his own course redesign, the tyranny of the contact hour, while thinking out loud about what a re-imagined high impact course (whether face-to-face or online) might look like (en fuego, anyone?). So, given UMW’s current [...]

Comment on The Tyranny of the Contact Hour (or is it the Tyranny of the Text?) by A DTLT Today Weekly Round Up | bavatuesdays

A DTLT Today Weekly Round Up | bavatuesdays — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:26:00 +0000

[...] Steve Greenlaw’s last two or three posts in which he is framing his own course redesign, the tyranny of the contact hour, while thinking out loud about what a re-imagined high impact course (whether face-to-face or [...]

Comment on Redesigning My Intro Course by A DTLT Today Twofer: Rethinking Learning Online and DTLT’s Media Emprie | bavatuesdays

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:25:44 +0000

[...] heretofore, as well as Steve Greenlaw’s last two or three posts in which he is framing his own course redesign, the tyranny of the contact hour, while thinking out loud about what a re-imagined high impact [...]

Comment on Inside-Outline Seminar? by Redesigning My Intro Course | Pedablogy: Musings on the Art & Craft of Teaching

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:50:46 +0000

[...] factor will be the hardest to implement at the introductory level, though it works very well for my senior seminar model. The first thought paper (see below) in my intro course asks students to identify a couple of [...]