I had dinner with a friend last night and we got to talking about my work. Having attended a traditional brick and mortar campus for both undergrad and graduate school, he was incredulous at the idea that students are now taking courses online. “How can you teach a course online?” he exclaimed! “How do you know what [...]
A column on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website recently reported that students’ #1 technology request is to have online chat capabilities with their instructor (here’s a report on the CDW-G study examining the role of technology in higher education). I’ve been kicking this around in my mind since first reading that CHE column. What [...]
Do you know the story of the student who kept taking his Final Exam after the class session ended? The instructor of the large, Freshman lecture called for all tests to be turned in on her desk. Every student complied, creating a very large stack, save one. He just sat in his desk, writing and filling [...]
Over the past few months I’ve been reflecting and writing about assessment accountability and its intersection with workplace competencies. I believe today’s post on competency-based learning nicely integrates these two topics and provides academic leaders with a progressive assessment model that dovetails nicely into learning outcome management systems which support the more rigorous demands of [...]