While using chopsticks at lunch today I found myself musing about how to train a robot to do the same. One could, of course, attempt
Assessing Assessment?
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
