Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 24, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, stevepb, CC0 In this blog, Dr Jeni Harden, from the Usher Institute, and Dr Sam Fawkner, from the Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences, outline a staff-student partnership project through which they developed a flipped teaching session for first year medical students to facilitate learning on physical activity for health… Despite the importance of physical activity promotion for both disease prevention and treatment, we were aware that it was n

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 24, 2019

I love residential life on Hope College’s campus maybe just a little too much. Over the last three years of living on Hope’s campus, I have enjoyed spending the last two being a Resident Assistant (also affectionately known as a R.A.) to the women of Phelps Hall and Mayor’s Cottage. Living on-campus has shaped me to be a much better person than I was when I entered college.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Higher Ed News - Since seating the 116th Congress three weeks ago, there has been a lot going on in Washington. Tom Netting of CSPEN, the Central States Private Education Network, which represents schools nationwide to public policy makers in Washington and throughout the nation, joins us to give an update on what we can expect out of the 116th Congress with respect to higher education, the 2019 Negotiated Rulemaking process, and the Education Department reorganization.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 23, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, geralt, CC0 In this mini-series post , Kerry Cheek, gives insight into how her module in Case Studies in Sustainable Development helped improve student employability… ‘Sustainable development’ is a broad term, especially to an Environmental Sustainability Masters student. Therefore, it wasn’t immediately clear what the Case Studies in Sustainable Development course would entail when I enrolled last year.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

Photo credit: pixabay, HarryJBurgess, CC0 In this post, Vanessa Ombura, a third year Civil Engineering student, describes her experience co-creating an interdisciplinary, online University-wide course, with the city of Edinburgh as a site of learning… Over the summer of 2018, I had the wonderful opportunity of working under the Usher Institute and the Moray House School of Education to design an interdisciplinary, online University-wide course on the city of Edinburgh, together with two fe

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JANUARY 22, 2019

One of the hallmarks of curricular approaches to student learning outside the classroom is that learning is scaffolded and sequenced to follow a student’s journey through their time in college. After educators identify their learning objectives (cascading from Educational Priority, to Learning Goals, Narratives, Rubrics, and Outcomes), the next step in the process is to map out objectives and sequence them to allow for cumulative learning.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 21, 2019

Feel like you’re swimming in questions about searching for the right college? You’re not alone! In this series, “Once in Your Shoes,” four Hope families share their wisdom about the college search process as they were once in your shoes. We’ve asked these families some admissions-related questions, with the goal of letting their experiences help you.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 22, 2019

Higher Ed News: 116th Congress, Negotiated Rulemaking Process and Education Department Reorganization.

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Collegis Education Data Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

How breaking away from fragmented fixes can help colleges meet revenue goals. Recently, a college president shared with Collegis that it’s not unusual for his various teams to need a couple of weeks to respond to requests for data. But, he wants to move faster. He’s always thinking about how his college might be as competitive as possible. In today’s world, that means keeping up with the fast pace of digital information.

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