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Course Design as a Creative Endeavor
Designing a course is a creative endeavor. I don’t mean just creating a new course, but rethinking, re-presenting a course you have taught before, even many times before. This design creativity seems so personal to me, but I imagine every … Continue reading
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Here’s a novel idea…
The college president as a public intellectual. A couple of weeks ago, I read this op-ed piece in Inside Higher Ed. I forwarded the link to Gardner, since his son is a first year student at Hampshire College, where Dr. … Continue reading
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More Vision for the UMW Teaching Center
Our institution will soon embark on a strategic planning initiative. What common mission binds us together as a faculty at UMW? I would say that our mission is to provide quality liberal and professional education at a public university price. … Continue reading
I don’t know if this is slow blogging
But HT to bgblogging for the idea nonetheless. At the end of last semester, I had a number of posts floating around in my head. I published a couple but decided to put the rest of them aside to mature … Continue reading
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Course Quality Control
This past semester I was invited to join the university’s Blending/Distance Learning Advisory Committee. I attended my first meeting of the committee a couple weeks ago, and it was very interesting on a number of levels. As the new guy, … Continue reading
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Teaching, Grading & Baylor Graduate Instructors
Last month, I was interviewed online by Gardner as part of a workshop he was leading to a group of graduate students at Baylor, each of whom is teaching a course in their own field. Aside from some technical glitches … Continue reading
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First Year Writers
The biggest thing I’ve learned from teaching a first year seminar is how freshman writing differs from upper class writing. Today I handed back the second formal paper my students have written and here is what I told them: The … Continue reading
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State of the University
On November 17, Dr. Judy Hample, President of UMW since July, gave the first substantive speech of her tenure. A video recording of the speech can be viewed here. I’ve been mulling over how to respond to the speech or … Continue reading
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Do Over Redux
I recently gave the second exam in my principles class so my students have been coming in to explain the right answers to the questions they got wrong. Two things have struck me this time around. First, the good: As … Continue reading
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W(h)ither Online Learning?
Let me start off by saying, I am a friend and supporter of our College of Graduate and Continuing Studies. I believe in what I understand their mission to be, that is, to offer a high quality, but lower cost … Continue reading
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