Re-Imagination of Everything

Mary Meeker, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, recently presented at Stanford University on web trends.  Her presentation contains eighty-eight slides full of interesting and thought-provoking information.  Her message is that the evolving web forces us to re-imagine everything.  For those of us in faculty development, it is suggestive of changes that… Read more Re-Imagination of Everything

Final Week of BlendKit2012

Five weeks pass pretty rapidly! … In this final week of BlendKit2012, we focused on quality assurance.  Kelvin Thompson suggested the following questions to ponder: How will you know whether your blended learning course is sound prior to teaching it? How will you know whether your teaching of the course was effective once it has… Read more Final Week of BlendKit2012

BlendKit2012 Week 2

In a post last week, I discussed starting UCF‘s MOOC on blended learning.  In the first week, we looked at what our blend might be.  This week, the focus is on how and when students will interact, with each other and with the instructor. There are some things I like about this course and things… Read more BlendKit2012 Week 2

Where I Am Going Next Week

Next week, Jeff Nugent and I will be attending the 18th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, October 10-12, 2012, at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, FL. This will be the first time I have attended the SLOAN-C conference, so I am looking forward to it.  Jeff and I will… Read more Where I Am Going Next Week

Starting BlendKit2012

This semester, Joyce Kincannon and I are both facilitating two separate faculty learning communities on blended learning.  I am also trying to wrap my brain around the whole MOOC thing.  So what better way than to sign up for a MOOC on blended learning!  Joyce is taking it too, so we will see if we… Read more Starting BlendKit2012