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Myths about Online Classes
The higher education writer, Goldie Blumenstyk, as a blog on the Chronicle for Higher Education website about some common myths about online education. One is that the instruction is all one-way, and she points out that the best online courses … Continue reading
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The Gateway Initiative
In a previous post, I quoted Kevin Gannon: “When it comes to closing the shameful gaps in college student success, we need to place pedagogy at the center of our efforts” from his commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education, … Continue reading
It’s August?!
Remember all that writing you were going to do this summer. I hope you got some of it done. I did. SOME of it, that is. And now here we are, in the middle of August, with the start of … Continue reading
The Unavoidable Curriculum
I’m looking forward to joining some colleagues this weekend at a summer institute organized by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU.org). We’re planning to get some good work done to organize professional development for high impact teaching practices … Continue reading
A New Tradition: Winter Faculty Convocation
BMCC will start a new tradition in January 2017. For the first time, all faculty will gather for a convocation on Friday, January 27. In the most general sense, a convocation is simply a gathering of people. Its roots are … Continue reading
Improving outcomes for developmental students
Recently, Karrin Wilks, Senior Vice President and Provost at BMCC, published an article about innovations in developmental outcomes at the college. Here’s the beginning of the piece: Many of us have been working on developmental education reform for years with … Continue reading
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The New Active Learning
In the early 2000s, I led a program to encourage and support faculty at Minnesota’s community-technical colleges and state universities (MnSCU) to adopt active learning strategies. At the time, we used the most comprehensive definition of “active learning” that we … Continue reading
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