By Margaret Andrews. I’ve been sharing a lot of what I’ve learned in using student teams with other faculty, as well as people that use faculty/staff teams in higher ed and ast week I conducted a webinar for the Global Business School Network titled Tips and Traps in Using Student Teams. Read more...
The University And The Future of Work
By Margaret Andrews. The Solo Project, an organization that chronicles and supports the solo community, recently came out with a report, The New World of Work is Here and We are Not Ready. Lots of interesting information in the report and there is a lot for the higher education community to chew on, too. Read more...
The Limits of Competition
By John Warner. Competition is great for lots of things. The sublime basketball being played by the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference finals is proof positive. Read more...
Tuition Payer's Receipt
By John Warner. I’m not talking about the nebulous breakdown of fees and charges most now receive, but something like the “taxpayer receipt” put out by the government (2014 version here) that gives the breakdown of how our federal income tax monies are spent, e.g., 28 cents out of every dollar goes to health care, 25 cents to the military, etc. Read more...
A Cause Worth Your Support
By John Warner. A lot of people ask me this question. Why not just start my business full time, and use the money spent in graduate school for start-up costs? First of all, I needed a fresh start. Read more...
Millennials Are People, Too
By John Warner. Born in 1970, I am firmly Gen X, but whenever I read blanket descriptions of today’s Millennial student, they seem oddly familiar. Read more...
Sometimes I Don't Hate Grading. Why?
By John Warner. Like a lot of college instructors, I have, from time to time, expressed my dislike of grading. Read more...
Shut Down the Parent Portals: The Dangers of Real-Time Data
By John Warner. How many of you have seen a child biff pretty hard when the child thinks no one is looking? I’m not talking an oopsie, but an actual knee-scraper, a legit owie. Read more...
We Don't Need a 'Revolution' to Improve Teaching
By John Warner. Nobel Prize winning physicist and Stanford professor Carl Wieman is a proponent of active learning in the college classroom and believes it could "revolutionize" learning. Read more...
This Is Not a Quit Lit Essay
By John Warner. This is not a “quit lit” essay.
But I am quitting my full-time teaching job. Read more...