 Tenth issue, Volume five |
TLT Group TGIF 5.1.2012  |
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From
TLT Group World Headquarters
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Steve
Gilbert recently revisited a piece from 2004, "If it Ain't Broke, Improve
it: Thoughts on Engaging Education for Us All"*. Here's an excerpt
we thought might interest you:
"...Our
colleges are not broken. Our faculty members and other academic
professionals are not failures. ...new tools and media are making it
possible... to provide education that is much more than a delivery
system for all those who deserve more.... The most important
challenge facing higher education today is not technological, not political,
not managerial, and not financial, although those are all important factors.
The biggest, most important challenge is educational. Lifelong learning isn't
only for "them." It is for all of us; and lifelong professional
development is an important part of it, for now and for the foreseeable future.
All of us involved in higher education need to use the wisdom, knowledge, and
skills that we have as educators to design and implement educational
responses to these new educational challenges..."*"If it Ain't Broke, Improve it: Thoughts on Engaging Education for Us All" Steven W. Gilbert, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) Volume, Issue - Date: Volume 8, Issue 1 - February 2004, Sloan-C, the Sloan Consortium, 15 pages. |
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More
from the TLT-SWG Blog: Our colleges aren't broken, our faculty aren't failures. With new tech we can provide (not merely deliver) better education for all who deserve it. Sedentaristic courses shorten lifespan, reduce end-of-life quality? More for seated students than standing instructors?
Building Community in Online Course” Archive, Slides, Polls,
& Chat Transcript
Teacher’s recap & advice to online students re week's
work: voice + email + word cloud [VIA FREE EASY APPS & LMS]
Simplest way to record and share audio via Internet?
Vocaroo.com!
"...e-books and nonlinearity don’t turn out to be very compatible." - Lev Grossman |
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Strategies for Overcoming Student Resistance
Friday
May 4, 2:00 pm EDT....Free
to all.
There are
several interdependent elements that affect students’ readiness to learn and
that shape their desire to engage in the classroom. However, being
aware of these forces is only the first step in ramping up student motivation
to learn. Using the Integrated Resistance Model, this session will
explore ways that faculty can assess the various elements in order to
determine where their students are and will describe some strategies that
faculty can implement to help students to overcome their resistance and
become active participants in their own learning. The session will
also focus on methods to encourage student willing participation in
collaborative group work. Registration for May 4 Leader: Anton Tolman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Behavioral Science, Director, Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence, Utah Valley University Coming up on FridayLive!: Ethical E-Research...Copyright Series, Interviews with Kenneth Crews and Cable Green... The Legal Side of the Creative Classroom... and more... |
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