The appalling legacy of “assessment” goes on and on and on. This “frank discussion” at a recent WASC conference is a classic bit of “too
Pitch & Catch: Maximizing Peer Critique and Feedback
In an entrepreneurship course a colleague of mine used to have a “pitch and catch” session in which one team would pitch their idea and
To Lecture or Not to Lecture
I still remember things said in some lectures that I heard in the late 1970s, the 80s and the early 90s. In some cases I
On-Line Ed: Believers and Non-Believers
Useful forum in Inside Higher Ed today on faculty “resistance” to teaching online. Simply phrasing it that way drives me kind of bonkers. Why don’t
A Project Begins
A colleague today said how amazing the young people in her program are, how they almost don’t understand what some of the antinomies that vexed
When Modes of Information Diffusion Collide
Anyone familiar with Twitter probably knows about “live tweeting” during television broadcasts. In my own Twitter feed are several “followees” on whom I can depend
