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 [...]
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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 »
Learning To Dream Again
Posted in Adult Learners, PLA, Work, tagged adultlearners, Employment, highereducation, PLA, Work on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Catherine Hooper, an Organizational Communications major at Marylhurst University, recently finished her 9-credit PLA Portfolio for the following topics: COL 427 Great Meetings: Planning and Facilitating Difficult Group Discussion CCM 321 Small Group Communication COL 426 Team Building: Managing Work Groups In her Final Portfolio Reflection essay, Catherine wrote: The PLA program was especially valuable [...]
My Third And Final Major Was English
Posted in Blogs, Books, Employment, Goals, Higher Education, Language, Learning, Liberal Arts, Life, Literature, Money, Professional Development, reading, Reflection, Work, Writing, tagged blog, education, Employment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Language, Learning, liberalarts, Life, Literature, problemsolving, reflection, Work, Writing on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
David Brooks has written an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called History for Dollars in which he advocates for studying the humanities, and it has me nogging. Brooks argues that studying the humanities will make a person more employable because they will be able to read and write well, will deeply understand human [...]
This Gives Me The HeeBeeJeeBee’s
Posted in Employment, Higher Education, PLA, Professional Development, tagged Assessment, education, Employment, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, PLA, reflection on June 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Wal-Mart has announced that it is going to offer its workers support for a college degree program. Ordinarily, most of us in higher ed would say “Great! More employers should recognize that helping their employees pay for and earn a degree is an investment; it is a Good Thing to do for the employee and [...]
Are You Untouchable?
Posted in Employment, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Professional Development, tagged Employment, highereducation, liberalarts, problemsolving on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently, Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times called The New Untouchables in which he argued that the economic crisis can be attributed to, in part, our poor educational systems. Here’s an excerpt that I think is key: A Washington lawyer friend recently told me about layoffs at his firm. I [...]
Good Work!
Posted in Conferences, Employment, Life, Professional Development, tagged Employment, Life, reflection on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently attended a session at the AHEA conference in Chicago that was led by my colleagues Morry Fiddler and Catherine Marienau of the School for New Learning at DePaul University. The session was titled “??!!(Work)??” — so the title alone captured my interest. The workshop itself was a nice opportunity for conference attendees to [...]
Catch the Worm!
Posted in Career Services, Higher Education, Life, Professional Development, tagged Employment, highereducation, Life on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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Weaving Threads Into A Tapestry
Posted in Employment, Professional Development, tagged Employment, professionaldevelopment, reflection on September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been thinking a lot about my professional path lately, for no particular reason other than the fact that I am surrounded by people (mostly students, but also several friends and colleagues) who are doing the same. As I consider the jobs I’ve held since I began working in higher education 15+ years ago, there [...]
Articulating Your Transferable Skills
Posted in Career Services, Employment, Higher Education, Professional Development, tagged education, Employment, Language, Marylhurst, resume on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I will be facilitating an online workshop called Articulating Your Transferable Skills later this month. Here is the description: In this interactive online workshop, participants will reflect on and learn how to articulate the transferable skills and knowledge they have to offer an employer. This workshop idea came out of a face-to-face workshop that I [...]
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