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The Tyranny of the Contact Hour (or is it the Tyranny of the Text?)
I am in involved in a project to develop online courses in the liberal arts & sciences, and I’ve run into an interesting question, a variant on something I’ve written about since the beginning of this blog: What defines a … Continue reading
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High Impact Learning
It’s the time of the year when I start thinking about redesigning my courses for the coming academic year. Last year at this time I was preoccupied planning for my new job as director of our university teaching center. As … Continue reading
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The College Course as an Experience (or set of experiences)
In my previous post I explored mastery-learning which implies a specific body of content to be learned. In this post, I want to look at the opposite extreme. Can a legitimate college course be an experience or set of experiences, … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching and Learning, What is Education?
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What kind of teacher are you?
Yesterday’s Washington Post had a column by Steven Pearlstein that caught my attention. Pearlstein makes an argument that won’t be new to many of you: that the internet has the potential to be a disruptive technology in education, that instructional … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Grading, Teaching and Learning
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Race to Nowhere
Do you have children? Do you care about our children? Are you a teacher? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, you must watch Race to Nowhere, an independent film on what’s wrong with school with parenting … Continue reading
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Inside-Outline Seminar?
I should be spending this time “getting ready for classes to start” next week, but perhaps this can be considered an investment of my time. It is almost time for my Spring seminar—that’s the course where I try out most … Continue reading
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What should grades include?
Now that Martha has shown me up, I figured it was time for me to blog again. 😉 I have four posts in the pipeline right now that I need to publish–really, I do. This post began as a link … Continue reading
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Rethinking Assessment
Our school is engaging in a major effort to revamp and improve institutional assessment. Like many schools, we have been “doing” assessment for about 15 years. Or I should say, we’ve been going through the motions. Assessment was viewed as … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment & Grading, UMW Teaching Center
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What are the dimensions of Teaching Excellence?
We claim to value teaching excellence at UMW, but what does teaching excellence look like? This was the topic of a lunch discussion sponsored last week by the UMW Teaching Center. John St. Clair observed, “Teaching excellence, like beauty, is … Continue reading
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Rethinking Assessment
Last spring I was appointed acting director of our University Teaching Center. The center has been alive for two years before this but we’ve never had a director. I’ve worked this summer to revamp the old programs and create new … Continue reading
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