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Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Wabash College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Westfields latest book is entitled Glimpses of Me and Mine: a Creative Biography (Wipf and Stock, 2023). She hosts a podcast entitled Dialogue on Teaching - the Wabash Centers on-air series of conversations with thought leaders in higher education and theological education.

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Leveraging technology for effective Assessment feedback (part 1): How to do I.T.?

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Feedback is the lynchpin to making sense of any form of assessment and “is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement” (Hattie and Timperley, 2007). This is part one of a two-part post, which will follow next Monday. Although some may disagree with me, blaming it on the instructor for not making it more suggestive.

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

Conferrals of graduate certificates have been growing faster than master’s degree conferrals (six times as fast, in the 2007-12 period, according to a report for EAB’s Continuing and Online Education Forum), and that doesn’t even count the non-credit certificates. Some of this is grounded in EAB research. Department of Education.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

I just got an article from a good friend of mine today talking about the whole situation at West Virginia University. the iPhone was released in 2007. Reach outside the organization to get a sanity check, if this makes sense, whether it be a consulting firm like mine or yours, or another president. 00:07:45] Catherine: Yeah.

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Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 156 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Jeff Scheuer

The Change Leader, Inc.

He is also the author of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (2007). In fact, a great book, not mine, came out by a writer named Will Bunch called After the Ivory Tower Falls , a history of how we lost that vision after the GI Bill. It’s a beautiful book and a nice complement to mine.

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2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 187 with Host Deborah Maue and Guest Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

Starting just that, a good friend of mine, Melanie Booth, has taken over that, and they’re figuring out a way how to be able to rate and accredit the certificate program. I mean, you stop and think about it; in 2007, we had the iPhone introduced. I’ve had folks on the podcast to talk about this. That was what? 16 years ago.