Everybody Knows…
By Matt Reed. In response to the piece about a “few, big, dumb questions” approach to assessment earlier this week, an exasperated professor from another state wrote to mention his frustration at the time that assessment takes, and at the unwillingness to act on the consistent finding that one professor’s students underperform everyone else’s. More...
Assessment and the Value of Big, Dumb Questions
By Matt Reed. How do you know if a curriculum is working?
In the absence of some sort of assessment, too often, the answer was “because the people teaching it say so.” One would think that the conflict of interest there would be obvious; for anyone outside the given department, it usually was. More...
4 Reasons Why EQUIP Is A Big Deal
By Joshua Kim. Have you been following the Department of Education (ED) announcement about EQUIP? (Educational Quality Through Innovative Partnerships). Read more...
Does Tweeting Help Us Think?
By Joshua Kim. The reason that I wrote Trying to Make Sense of dLRN 2015 was that I am trying to make sense of the conference for myself. Read more...
Mobile Learning: Apps vs. Web?
By Joshua Kim. The Atavist Magazine has given up its app.
(I hadn’t realized that Atavist no longer publishes concise books - how did I miss that story?). Read more...
Trying to Make Sense of dLRN 2015
By Joshua Kim. If you were at Stanford for dLRN 2015 then I hope you will weigh in with some sensemaking on Twitter, on your blog, on the dedicated dLRN SenseMaker platform, or in this community. Read more...
“The WiFi Is Broken”
By Joshua Kim. I’m writing this post from seat 8A of United Airlines flight #1523 direct from Boston (BOS) to San Francisco (SFO).
The inflight WiFi is down.
In fact, it has not worked the entire flight. The captain made the (good) decision to have an on-time departure rather than stay in the gate at Boston to fix the WiFi. Read more...
Making Space for the Important
By Joshua Kim. I’ve been a director of academic technology at Davidson College for 10 years now. Like many of my colleagues, I’m also a practitioner. It has always been my position that maintaining some level of practice is a good idea in this field. Read more...
Articulating How Centers for Teaching and Learning Are Changing
By Joshua Kim. This week I asked 3 questions about the changing role of Centers for Teaching and Learning in higher education. Read more...
