I’m happily working my way through the reading assignments for the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy that I am participating in (and finding all sorts of goodies to share with my colleagues), and this paragraph from Mary J. Allen’s book Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education (2004) reminded me why I care so much about assessment [...]
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The Bottom Line
Posted in Assessment, Assessment Leadership Academy, Books, Higher Education, Learning, Reflection, Teaching, tagged Assessment, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Learning, reflection, Teaching on April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Installment #10: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, Life, Toddlers, Work, tagged adultlearners, application, bikes, highereducation, integration, Learning, reflection, soccer, Toddlers on May 17, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Yes, yes, it’s been a while since I posted an installment of What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning. But a lesson happened yesterday that so clearly stands out — because it’s funny, and because it’s right on — that I thought I’d better share. This is Mac during his soccer class (blurry [...]
Only Connect
Posted in Life, tagged integration, Life on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I listened to part of Obama’s speech about sending in 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. At the end of his speech, he called upon Americans to be united: It’s easy to forget that when this war began, we were united — bound together by the fresh memory of a horrific attack, and by [...]
Want To Change The World?
Posted in Higher Education, Learning, Liberal Arts, Mission, Strategic Planning, tagged education, highereducation, integration, Learning, liberalarts, Marylhurst, strategicplanning on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Liberal Arts Education day here on PrattleNog. My head is spinning with thoughts about the tremendous personal and social benefits of such because three items have crossed my path related to this question: Why is a liberal arts education important? These three items have raised for me four BIG CONCERNS. Here goes: First, [...]
A Visit To The Candy Shop
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, integration, knowledge, Learning on May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yet another goodie from Larry Daloz’s book Mentor: EDUCATION AS CARE The proper aim of education is to promote significant learning. Significant learning entails development. Development means successively asking broader and deeper questions of the relationship between oneself and the world. This is as true for first graders as graduate students, for fledgling artists as [...]
Silos, Falling Down
Posted in Learning, Life, tagged integration, Learning, Life, Technology on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been experiencing an interesting phenomenon in the past few years: the separate aspects of my life have become much less separate and much more integrated. I no longer have a work life, a personal life, an educational life – they are much more connected, in time, organization, and approach. We hear a lot about [...]
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