"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
As I noted in my last post, a new blogging challenge has emerged called blimage – a “blog image” challenge: You must use an image sent to you and “incorporate it into your blog, and write a post about learning based on it…Then pass an image of your choice on to someone else so they… Read more A Dam Blimage Challenge
In 10 days, we start our summer institute on online teaching and learning. This is an experiment of sorts for my institution. For the first time, our institute this year will be the start of an upcoming year-long process to help a cohort of faculty develop and teach online classes. Following the institute, each member… Read more Bridging the Chasm
After two 3+ hour flights and one flight delay, I have crossed the country to attend Innovations 2009 in Reno NV. Innovations is an annual conference of the League for Innovation in Community Colleges, and this is my fifth or sixth. While I am no longer associated with two-year colleges, I still stay in touch… Read more At Innovations 2009
The latest issue of Innovate ezine contains an interesting article by Pu-Shih Chen, Robert Gonyea, and George Kuh entitled, “Learning at a Distance: Engaged or Not?” My first thought on reviewing it was that this was yet another “no significant difference” study…but I was wrong. While noting initially that many senior academic officers expressed the… Read more Building Engagement Online