I came back last week from an event put on by the John N. Gardner organization, a three-day conference on promoting student success in gateway courses.
Category: Trends and Change
Why won’t my faculty listen? Risks and rewards of change
Posted in Course Redesign, Higher Education, and Trends and Change
Recently I did something I haven’t for many years: sat in as a student in a face-to-face course.
Student effort: Taboo, a third rail, or something we need to be talking about?
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, Student Success, Technology, and Trends and Change
I work in public higher education, where cost-quality tradeoffs have become a more-or-less permanent feature of the landscape.
Building faculty buy-in: Lessons learned and some useful rules
Posted in Course Redesign, First-year Learning Initiative, Higher Education, and Trends and Change
If you are going to have an impact on teaching and learning beyond your own classes and your own students, you need to have the support of fellow faculty. If you’re on the administrative side, this is even more true: You…
How did we get here? And what’s next?
Posted in About Minds Online, Course Redesign, Higher Education, Technology, and Trends and Change
Do you remember the days of earnestly debating whether online learning was possible?