The other night we hosted a grown-up dinner party (ok, ok, it was a potluck) for the parents of my kid’s classmates. I thought it would be nice to get to know these folks given that our kids might be together for the next several years and that between the hustle and bustle of pick-up [...]
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Hairballs (Yes, This Is About Teaching, Learning, And Assessment)
Posted in Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged Assessment, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“A” Is For …
Posted in Assessment, Blogs, Higher Education, Learning, Work, tagged Assessment, blog, highereducation, Learning, Work on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ha! You thought I was going to say “assessment,” right? Well, not this time! You know why? Because assessment for the sake of assessment is lame. For one thing, it’s not a good use of our time or resources. For another thing … well, there is no other thing. We need to be able to [...]
Milestones
Posted in Assessment, Goals, Kids, Learning, Preschool, tagged Assessment, Goals, kids, Learning, preschool on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is a picture of my kid with his bike at the age of 3 and 11/12 months: This is a more recent picture of him with his new bike at the age of 4 and 30 seconds: Some pretty major things needed to happen to get from picture #1 to picture #2. For example, [...]
Is He Learning?
Posted in Assessment, Education, Learning, Preschool, tagged Assessment, education, kids, Learning, preschool on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week we received my kid’s first report card from his new school and we had our first parent-teacher conference. So you all know, Mac is 3 and 11/12ths years old and he is in preschool. So this is all new to us. The report card and the conference have me thinking about assessment (of [...]
Planning Your Learning Visit
Posted in Assessment, Community, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Visits, Problem Solving, Professional Development, Work, tagged Assessment, Community, experience, highereducation, Learning, problemsolving, professionaldevelopment, Work on November 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently wrote about the great benefits I am getting from learning visits — as visitor and visitee (is that a word? Well, you know what I mean). A few colleagues who read that piece have since had some questions for me, mostly about logistics. So I thought I would jot down some tips for [...]
Meeting The Challenge With Learning Visits
Posted in Assessment, Assessment Leadership Academy, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, Learning Visits, Problem Solving, Professional Development, tagged Assessment, experience, highereducation, Learning, problemsolving, professionaldevelopment on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The good folks over at the University of Venus began a networking challenge this fall. I never got around to actually signing up for it, but I thought it was a great idea and I intended to participate. Their challenge consisted of doing one of the following: Go interdisciplinary Go international Go outside your institution [...]
So How, Exactly, Will Learning Be Assessed?
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Employment, Experience, Learning, PLA, Technology, Work, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, badges, Employment, experience, Learning, PLA, Technology, Work on November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I am trying to understand badges. Given my background with Prior Learning Assessment programs and other forms of experiential learning, I totally get the idea conceptually. (Hey – I know a few boy and girl scouts too! They’ve earned badges for things they learned and could do too, right?) Apparently, with a badge: You can [...]
Learning A New Way To Learn Through PLA
Posted in Adult Learners, Learning, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Learning, PLA on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In May 2011. Stephanie Lillegard completed her 30-credit Prior Learning Assessment portfolio. For Stephanie, it was a journey of learning, as she explains here: Stephanie is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Human Sciences and English, Literature, and Writing. She wrote PLA essays on the following topics: ED 109: Library Procedures ED 114: Reference [...]
Mr. Messy Meets Higher Education
Posted in Change, Dean Stuff, Higher Education, Learning, Reflection, Toddlers, tagged Change, deanstuff, highereducation, Learning, reflection, Toddlers on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Mr. Messy, from a book of the same title: Mr. Messy is a friend of my kid Mac, who for some reason is intrigued by Mr. Messy. We haven’t even read the book (so in fact I don’t know what it’s about), but we have seen his picture and sometimes it looks to Mac [...]
This Makes Us Official
Posted in Assessment, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, Work, tagged Assessment, facultydevelopment, highereducation, Learning, Teaching, Work on October 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My colleagues in the Assessment Program and I finally got our program description and content on the Marylhurst website. We’ve been wanting to do so for a very long time, but we needed the time and space to get it all organized. Thanks to the great work of our Educational Assessment Specialist Sione, we’re now [...]
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