Keeping up with the latest developments in learning, teaching, and technology
At the end of CC’s half-block winter session, we held a winter conference where various people around campus presented on topics related to the strategic planning process we are currently working through. Steve Lawson, our humanities librarian, and I ran a session titled “The CC Classroom: Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning.” We centered …
Continue reading “Common teaching challenges and how technology can help address them”
I recently read an article in the New York Times about Maria Popova, founder of the Brain Pickings “online ideas emporium,” and was struck by her quote describing how she views her work as “helping people become interested in things they didn’t know they were interested in, until they are.” It’s a perfect description of …
The New York Times, Inside Higher Ed, and The Chronicle of Higher Education today all reported on Semester Online, a collaboration between 10 top-tier universities that, starting fall 2013, will offer fully online, credit-bearing undergraduate courses through a partnership with 2u (formerly known as 2tor). The institutions currently in the consortium are Duke, Emory, Washington …
Greetings from your friendly neighborhood GIS guy! Online teaching tools are becoming more readily available and are now a permanent fixture in our teaching curriculum. This is no different in the world of spatial analysis and inquiry. The days of plugging away in front of a highend pc in a very complex and comprehensive program is no longer a …
With all the recent hype about MOOCs, it is unfortunate that a tool with a much longer and proven track record of increasing student success, Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative, has received almost no coverage in the academic or mainstream press. OLI has been in operation for several years, and with its not-for-profit blended learning …
Among the challenges that arise when one is thinking of inverting (or “flipping”) one’s classroom, developing materials such as screencasts and quizzes that will be used outside of class is one of the most commonly mentioned. Equally important, however, is the reaction of students to this radical change in their educational model. In his blog …
Continue reading “Student perceptions of the flipped classroom”
What does origami have to do with technology in higher education? If you are on the CC campus, then come to our presentation Tuesday August 28 to find out. Modular origami part 1: making the base Modular origami part 2: making the face Modular origami part 3: combining the base and the face
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Two years ago we started the First Year Writing Requirement to assess the writing of first year students. They’re required to submit a portfolio of three writing samples: A paper from their FYE course A paper written for a course after their FYE A reflective piece I was asked to help come up with a system …
There is a lot of web-based software these days that says it’s “free,” but beware! Many of these software as service sites have terms of service that grant them a perpetual, irrevocable, and transferable right to use anything you post to their site in any way they like. While I have a hard time understanding …
