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Spotlight on Alternative Assessment Methods: ‘A little bit digitalised?’ Developing practice with online exams

Teaching Matters Online Learning

2019, Myyry & Joutsenvirta 2015, Williams & Wong 2009). One Dutch participant said that the incompatibility of the various technologies in use had thwarted academics’ hopes of collaborating on large question banks across multiple institutions. Active Learning in Higher Education, 16, 119–132. Williams, J. & Wong, A.

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Famous Graduates of Liberal Arts Colleges

Great College Advice

Clausen, former President of the World Bank NOTABLE ALUMNI of CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE, Claremont, CA Henry Kravis ’67 and George R. Garrick Utley, class of 1961, journalist. NOTABLE ALUMNI of CARROLL COLLEGE Steven Burd, CEO of Safeway NOTABLE ALUMNI of CARTHAGE COLLEGE, Kenosha, WI Alden W.

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Career Development Planning

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Groups were allocated sectors of the labour market to research and at the end of the course their reports shared with the whole class so that students would have a bank of up to date knowledge about the labour market. So what was the result? Well so far so good!

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Fun and games – nurturing students’ ‘being’

SRHE

However, if it is our role to effect change in human beings, we must look beyond disciplinary knowledge and indeed the mode of delivery of knowledge which Freire (1970) in Pedagogy of the Oppressed refers to as banking. We must ask ourselves how do we nurture student ‘ being ’? Not only we, but other scholars too have asked the same question.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

By encouraging a heterarchical approach to issues (Stark et al, 2009) it unlocks flexibility and new ideas in institutions while at the day to day level it provides a consistent and regular format for the conduct of institutional business. Good governance is thus a stimulus to innovation and new thinking.

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12 Steps to Encourage & Support Student Entrepreneurship

Study Aborad Association

This topic is close to my heart since I met my SAA business co-founder, Christian Alyea, while he was participating in a study abroad program in Italy as a college student in 2009. You can ask a loan from a bank or even to friends and family. Stay Connected Globally. This is the simplest and riskier way to get funding.