Category Archives: Teaching and Learning

Fourth Class in the Seminar

Posted on September 8, 2006 by sgreenla

Before Class: Today the plan is to start from the students’ initial personal definitions of globalization and develop a tentative class consensus definition. I reviewed the definition that my senior seminar came up with last Spring, and I really like … Continue reading →

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Third Class — More Introduction to the Toolkit

Posted on September 7, 2006 by sgreenla

Tuesday was another lab day in the first year seminar. In 75 minutes, we introduced the students to wikis, blog readers (in the form of bloglines), RSS, Tagging and social bookmarking (in the form of del.icio.us). In retrospect, I have … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on Thursday’s Seminar Session

Posted on September 4, 2006 by sgreenla

I’m still reflecting on Thursday’s class where I asked students to define education and to discuss why they are taking this course and what they bring to it. (I gave them the questions in advance and asked for written answers.) … Continue reading →

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Jeff on Podcasting Lectures

Posted on September 4, 2006 by sgreenla

Jeff has posted a thoughtful perspective on our discussion of podcasting lectures, from the viewpoint of an untenured faculty member. I haven’t been in his shoes (untenured) for several decades so it’s always useful to be reminded that my perspective … Continue reading →

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Notes on the Seminar

Posted on September 4, 2006 by sgreenla

Thursday I got two volunteers to take careful notes during our discussion. I’ve taken those notes, combined and lightly edited them to fit together. I just sent them out to the class for corrections or amendment to better represent what … Continue reading →

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It’s just a wheel

Posted on August 31, 2006 by sgreenla

One of the things that has captured me for as long as I’ve worked with instructional technology is the realization that the tools that I’ve used make and keep a record of the learning experience. We think of learning as … Continue reading →

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First Day of Class

Posted on August 31, 2006 by sgreenla

Yesterday was the first day of class in the new seminar I’ve been preparing for all summer: fifteen first year students on their second day of college. I had the luxury of two co-teachers: Martha Burtis, our Acting Director of … Continue reading →

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Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

Posted on August 24, 2006 by sgreenla

Over the last year, I have increasingly heard about a paradigm shift occurring in higher education, to what I call University 2.0 (or U2.0 for short). As Morton Egol states in the most recent issue of Educause Review, “The Industrial … Continue reading →

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Higher Education as Disciplinary Practice

Posted on August 24, 2006 by sgreenla

In the last post, I wrote about Derek Bok’s recent book. A minor theme of Bok is the tension in academia between content and skills. This manifests itself in a number of areas, but most prominently in the discussion of … Continue reading →

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Our Underachieving Colleges

Posted on August 23, 2006 by sgreenla

In an earlier post I began discussing Derek Bok’s excellent book, Our Underachieving Colleges. This is a continuation of that discussion. Bok offers a compelling critique of higher education today (at least in the U.S.) and offers prescriptions for how … Continue reading →

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