Category: All blog entries
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Online and Outsourced in Higher Ed
Inside Higher Ed today posted this story about a proposal for Nevada to create an online community college. This raises some great questions that I’ve had on my radar for some time, but that have really complex (maybe unknowable) answers: Can online education really ever replace f2f education? What gets…
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A new school year begins …
ISU is now actually in the third week of a new academic year, so this post is a little late. (Better late than never!) My main project so far this semester has been the ISU Writing Program’s new website. It’s online and functional at ISUwriting.com. In addition, I’m working on…
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Re-post: The Flipped Classroom Model
Using class time for individual work and homework time for preparation … A really interesting pedagogical idea! http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-full-picture/
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Grade inflation
The following is a repost (found originally here), followed by my commentary: Created by: Masters Degree This is a fascinating piece. My reaction is that this phenomenon has everything to do with money. Tuition “inflation” is a causal factor in grade “inflation.” (My use of quotation marks around “inflation”…
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Toward a Rational Response to Plagiarism
Re-post from The Chronicle: “Plagiarism is making us crazy. No, the mere thought of plagiarism is making us crazy. Collectively, as a professoriate, we’re obsessed with it. Consider “The Shadow Scholar,” an anonymous confessional by a man who purportedly produces student papers on demand. Originally published in November of 2010,…
Erin Anne Clark 