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PowerProfs Sabbatical
Thank you for joining in our Dispatches from the Graduate Classroom conversation over the past couple of years. We have had a blast and gorged ourselves on the whole lifelong learning thing that we educators tend to do. As a result, we have suddenly found ourselves immersed in more ideas and projects than we... »
Gender – Part 2
Shortly after my recent post on Gender: An Academic Question, two articles on gender appeared. The first, and most important, was the Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. The rather upbeat title stems from the fact that women now make up half the workforce, a percentage that will likely continue to grow. However, the... »
Gender: An Academic Question
“For every 100 American women enrolled in college, there are only 77 men. And for every 100 women who graduate with a bachelor’s degree, only 73 men accomplish that, according to data from the Postsecondary Education Opportunity.” These facts, cited in a blog in the NYTimes, are well known to PowerProfs as Fritz and... »
Hybrids Rule
Yes, I do truly love my Prius, but here I am discussing another kind of hybrid: a course that involves both online and classroom learning. An Inside Higher Ed report of new research from South Texas College indicates that 82 percent of students in hybrid courses were successful (that is, that got an A,... »
Back to the Future
Following up on a theme discussed in a recent PowerProfs post on the evolution of educators from a stand and deliver classroom teachers to a supercharged E-mentors using a variety of online tools, I read this article in the NY Times with interest: “SINCE the 16th century, the ideal of education has been the tutorial... »
Will this be on the test?
An Inside Higher Ed blog Demand and Supply By Joshua Kim asks questions we here at PowerProfs have pondered: “Why do students seem content with a lecture based class system? Why aren’t students asking for creative course projects that use media and multiple intelligences, rather than the traditional end-of-term paper?” In our research on best practices... »
Educators of the Future
Inside Higher Ed ran an interview with Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University, and author of the book The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. After discussing the open education movement, and outlining some factors or “openers” that are facilitating this transition in education, Bonk... »
Thinking Too Much
It turns out that our brains can be co-conspirators in a vicious stress loop. This finding is not too surprising to any of us with an overactive cortex. I find it remarkable how some tapes insist on playing over and over in my brain despite my best efforts to hit the stop button. A... »
Zotero Redux
Keeping digital stuff organized is a challenge, and we dedicated a podcast to that topic last year. One of our favorite tools that has since stood the test of time is Zotero. A recent article in Inside Higher Ed echoes our sentiments: “….you can build up a collection of digital documents, cataloging and sorting... »
Gender Models in Leadership
Over the past year, Fritz and I developed and taught a one-credit hour course for our Leadership Certificate Program called Gender Models in Contemporary Healthcare Leadership. Fritz came up with the idea, then recruited me to team teach the course to give it a gender balance. Our main premise was to to use an... »
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