882. When Coaching and Testing Collide
June 17, 2008
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"I have often written that collaboration is a marriage of insufficiencies; that students can work together in ways that scaffold and support each others' learning, and in ways that support each others' knowledge. Now I call for a marriage of sufficiencies to overcome the essential tensions between individual work and collaborative performance, coaching support and independent assessment, the mentor as an agent of zealous advocacy and the mentor as a steward of the commons."
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Posted by markep on June 17, 2008
881. Double Dipping in Conference Papers
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"When he posed the same question to graduate students, Dometrius relates, "the modal reply was a blank stare - a lack of comprehension that presenting the same paper as many times as you wished would be viewed by anyone as an unusual or questionable practice."
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Posted by markep on June 17, 2008
880 Adaptive Leadership
June 10, 2008
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"Heifetz warned that there were a number of perils involved in adaptive leadership, because such challenges require experimentation, the discovery of new knowledge, and various adjustments throughout the organization. Only by adjusting attitudes, values, and behaviors could participants adapt to a new environment and sustain such change over time; this shift in values or perspective was the most difficult."
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Posted by markep on June 10, 2008
879. China's Learning Curves
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"This was not the case in mainland China, however. There, the predominant educational strategy, teacher-centered instruction, correlated with deep learning strategies. Indeed, students in the mainland Chinese programs, and especially those in what are considered the top 10 universities, were less satisfied with a student-centered orientation, as opposed to their counterparts in Hong Kong."
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Posted by markep on June 10, 2008
878 Academic Advising in the New Global Century
June 03, 2008
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Viewing academic advising as an educational process moves it from a paradigm of teaching that focuses on information or inputs to a paradigm of learning that focuses on outcomes for student learning. In this way, academic advising supports key institutional conditions that have been identified with promoting student success. Such conditions include setting high expectations, providing support, offering feedback, and facilitating involvement in learning through frequent student contact with faculty and staff.
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Posted by markep on June 3, 2008
877. Venturing Abroad: Delivering U.S. Degrees through Overseas Branch Campuses and Programs (Review)
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Not surprisingly, the authors identify Asia as the primary destination for cross-border education and, in particular, the countries of China, Singapore, and India. In each case, the authors identify the types of cross-border programs currently in place, provide examples of institutions involved, and describe the current status or opportunity for establishing a cross-border educational program there.
Posted by markep on June 3, 2008
875. Hey, You! Pay Attention!
May 27, 2008
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The students sit in class, tapping away at their laptops as the boring old law professor mechanically plods through his lecture. Except one. Instead of hunching over a portable computer or a notebook, he's playing solitaire with a deck of cards on his desk. The professor halts his droning. "What are you doing?" he demands. The student shrugs. "My laptop is broken," he says.
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Posted by markep on May 27, 2008
874. Online Tutorial for Designing Effective and Innovative Courses
May 20, 2008
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"Is it time to really shake the tree and do something about one of your courses? Do you have a great idea for an innovative course but aren't quite sure where to start in designing it? If so, you might try using the following online tutorial designed to provide practical and effective help for faculty members interested in designing or redesigning a course."
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Posted by markep on May 20, 2008
873. Professors Need to Lighten Up
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"I found that self-efficacy was directly and positively influenced by faculty approachability and negatively affected by faculty distance. Thus, a professor's interactions with students are crucial to student performance."
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Posted by markep on May 20, 2008
872. The College as Campus (Review)
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"Chapman's book is distinguished by his emphasis on how higher education fits within society, figuratively and literally. His thesis is that American higher education has from its inception conceptually positioned itself in relation to the natural landscape and urbanity."
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Posted by markep on May 20, 2008
871. Designing Courses
May 15, 2008
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"At CTL, we have found helpful the concept of learning-centered course design, in which the teacher designing the course first identifies the learning goals of the course, and then "works backwards:"designing the course from the perspective of what we hope our students will have learned from the course when it is over, and then figuring out how best to help them achieve these goals."
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Posted by markep on May 15, 2008
870 Teaching Large Evening Classes
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"How can faculty effectively teach, control, or even simply keep awake the students in such classes, many of whom start their days very early in the morning with family responsibilities?"
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Posted by markep on May 15, 2008