Rap Genius, Course Constitutions, and Formative Assessment: #FutureEd Week One
This weekend I caught up on “The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education,” a massive open online course (MOOC) taught by …
Student-Faculty Course Design Partnerships (#PODHBCU)
I went to several great sessions at the joint conference of the POD Network and the HBCU Faculty Development Network in Atlanta …
Student Perceptions of Learning Goals – More from My Course Evals
Yesterday I blogged about the challenge of setting appropriate grading standards in my first-year cryptography course. Today, I’d like to follow up …
Tough Questions about Grading Standards
I’ve spent some time today reading carefully through my end-of-course student evaluations for my fall cryptography seminar. Our course evals are online …
Imagination + Private Universes + Expectations + Motivation + Visual Meetings
Okay, so I didn’t finish David Sibbet’s new book Visual Meetings over winter break. But I did read a couple of chapters! …
The Case for Visual Thinking – Thoughts on “Visual Meetings” by David Sibbet
One of my goals over winter break is to read Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes & Idea Mapping Can Transform Group …