News & announcements from January 2013
Rights in Online Courses
Monday, January 28th, 2013Recently HASTAC [Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advance Collaboratory] published an online learner’s bill of rights and dealing with critiques of such a bill of rights. Another posting addresses the issues of online assignments in public sites, such as blogs, wikis and other forums. The issue of credit and enrollments for MOOCs [Massive Open Online Courses] has also been…
Professional Development Spring 2013
Thursday, January 24th, 2013The professional development calendar of activities has many workshops, activities and resources for spring. Updated List Notice Important Dates for Spring 2013 2-5-13
Syllabus Preparation and Lectures
Sunday, January 20th, 2013ProfHacker of the Chronicle of Higher Education regularly posts ideas, fixes, make-overs, and concrete suggestions for syllabus creation. Teaching resolutions for the new semester provides some syllabus guidelines. Previous posts on Teaching and Learning site also provide other syllabus ideas. A new view of the potential value of multiple choice exams is also provided. For those…
