Life is a legitimate classroom. OH. MY. GOSH. THIS. IS. GOOD! Read this: A Letter From a Hybrid Student Then think about these two points that Teo makes: 1) “…it takes courage to assert that one’s life is a legitimate classroom.” 2) “Our lives are our source material; our histories, a text worthy of exploring [...]
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Life Is A Legitimate Classroom
Posted in Adult Learners, Assessment, Education, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, education, experience, highereducation, Learning, PLA on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Art Of Program Assessment
Posted in Art, Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, tagged art, Assessment, highereducation, Learning on May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The OIA Blog (a blog written by the Office of Institutional Assessment of SCAD) published a piece called Abstraction in Art and Assessment. These two key paragraphs struck a chord with me (I added the bold for emphasis): It became clear to me that the more abstract an image is, the more I can focus [...]
Fearing Assessment; Fearing Learning (And Fearing David Brooks)
Posted in Assessment, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Learning, Students, Teaching, tagged Assessment, facultydevelopment, fear, highereducation, Learning, Students, Teaching on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
O this learning, what a thing it is! ~Grumio in Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare Twice this past month I’ve heard the word “fear” used by faculty when referring to their experience of assessing student learning in their courses. One person described it as fear of students disagreeing with their grade or feedback, or [...]
Connecting Paper And Image: Assessment As Origami
Posted in Art, Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged art, Assessment, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on April 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Joshua Brown, the editor of Research & Practice in Assessment (published by the Virginia Assessment Group), wrote in his From The Editor column in the Winter 2011 issue this interesting idea about assessment paradigms: Whereas Western art focuses upon the freedom to move images around on paper or canvas to create fixed patterns, origami ignores [...]
Being Intentional About Being Intentional
Posted in Assessment, Experience, Kids, Learning, Life, Problem Solving, Teaching, Yoga, tagged Assessment, experience, kids, Learning, Life, problemsolving, Teaching, Yoga on March 12, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Intentionality. With thought. Deliberate. Designed. Purposeful. Intentionality is on my mind a lot because I think that assessment can be more interesting, engaging, and powerful (for learners and teachers) when it’s less about measurement and accountability and more about supporting authentic learning practices. In this vein, assessment can be an interesting catalyst for reminding us [...]
Teaching And Assessment – But Learning?
Posted in Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, tagged Assessment, highereducation, Learning, Teaching on March 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Teaching and assessment are certainly represented in this teaching demonstration for Social Dance (Section 24). Learning, however, is not. Ooops! Thanks to colleagues on the POD list serve for pointing out this gem.
Prattle Your Nog For A Good Cause
Posted in Assessment, Higher Education, Learning, Teaching, Technology, tagged Assessment, digital humanities, english degree, highereducation, Learning, Teaching, Technology on February 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Friends of PrattleNog – I know you all want to get your nogs prattling – here’s a good opportunity for a great cause! My Marylhurst colleague Jesse Stommel is seeking feedback on his ideas for our new online English degree program. As he writes in Hybrid Pedagogy, I’ve been thinking about my audience for this [...]
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 »
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Talk To Your “A” Team
Posted in Assessment, Work, tagged Assessment, Work on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
An Assessment Haiku by Susan Marcus, co-chair of Marylhurst University’s Assessment Committee and faculty / curriculum specialist, Accelerated Online Programs Do we know they know? That’s why we do assessment Don’t fear the “A” word But how do we know? Oh, the many ways we have Bring in the “A” word Are your needs unique? [...]
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