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The World’s 100 Top Intellectuals
Foreign Policy magazine has just published its second annual list of the world’s 100 top intellectuals. How many are you familiar with? (Thanks to the Chronicle for this.)
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More than a Website: An Online Environment for Scholarly Conversation
This post is about another question that I’ve been considering for nearly six months. It’s actually come up in three different contexts, first the UMW Teaching Center, second the Economics Education Research group, and most recently the FSEM Workshop. I … Continue reading
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My Vision for the UMW Teaching Center
Over the last six months, I have several times mentioned the plans for our new Teaching Center at UMW. Faculty and staff have been asked to provide input into the planning process, and we have been told that this input … Continue reading
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Coincidence or small world?
Sometimes progress comes where you least expect it. Checking my twitter feed this morning, I noticed several tweets from someone I didn’t recognize. I clicked on the new tweeter, one Chris Jobling, and discovered that he teaches at the Swansea … Continue reading
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Is Economics Like Physics?
This is the question that a group of my colleagues, led by Mark Maier of Glenwood Community College (in California) and Scott Simpkins of North Carolina A&T University, have been exploring for the last three years. It is generally known … Continue reading
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More on the ‘Do over’
Some weeks ago, I blogged about a new way of curving exam grades which I’m trying in my principles course. Monday I handed back the second exam, which is the most difficult of the year, primarily because it covers the … Continue reading
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Pilot testing the quasi-collaborative editing approach
My last post outlined the plans for finishing my senior seminar with a bang rather than a whimper. Monday, I expect to finish the course content. From that point on, we will be collaboratively writing our final project. The last … Continue reading
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Worker smarter, rather than harder
On the way to the NITLE Summit it occurred to me what a good time it was to take a break from school, if only for a few days. This is the time in the semester when my students and … Continue reading
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iTS or ItS?
Perhaps I’m in a funk but recently, I’ve felt compelled to criticize the thinking of some of my favorite class of colleagues: instructional technology folks. In a recent post, the Cog Dog argued that instructional technology staff, and by that … Continue reading
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Terry Dolson on Talking about Teaching
Terry Dolson at the University of Richmond is a thoughtful commentator on liberal education. Her recent post “On Faculty Development and Small Colleges” provides a compelling reason for developing intellectual community among faculty who value teaching. How you do it, … Continue reading