June 2005 - Posts
What knowledge or skills will students need most to be effective citizens of our world in the future? Thinking and acting out of the box present the biggest challenges for us in higher education. Developments in our society, in technology, and in what
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Building Learning Communities: Infrastructure, Program and Faculty Development (MCC Carnegie Summer Institute Session III – B.) This session dealt with administrative issues in starting and sustaining a learning community program in a college. The presenters,
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Update: This program will be aired in some locations on Friday, June 24 at 8PM EDT (Boston area) Thanks to Judith Kamber (NECC) for forwarding this message from the POD (Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education) listserv
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I would like to recommend two books which present interesting models of students' reflective thinking and epistemology, as well as useful teaching and assessment guidelines: (1) King, Patricia M. & Kitchener, Karen, S. (1994). Developing Reflective
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Pat Hutchings, Vice-President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching offered an informative overview of the scope, focus and accomplishments of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning initiative in this year's keynote address at the
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This year's Middlesex Carnegie Summer Institute has just come to a close and the Blog as well as Middlesex Carnegie home page will be featuring session reports and photographs of the event in the coming days and weeks. The institute explored further dimensions
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The following information and presentation was created for use by the iCohere hosted Online Community Workshop (June 7-30), but is open to anyone visiting the COPPER Blog. The COPPER Blog serves a cluster of educators from eight colleges involved in the
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