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 »
Credit for Experience or Learning? Learning, Please!
Posted in Accreditation, Adult Learners, Assessment, Experience, Higher Education, PLA, Problem Solving, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, Assessment, experience, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Marylhurst, PLA, problemsolving, reflection, Writing on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have written already about Walmart’s PLA program, so I am not going to get my knickers in a twist again about *that* topic. My first 2 cents Here My next 2 cents Here The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning announced that Pam Tate, the President of CAEL, was interviewed on NPR´s show Here [...]
A No-Brainer
Posted in Adult Learners, Books, Experience, Higher Education, Learning, Life, PLA, Reflection, tagged Books, experience, knowledge, Learning, PLA, reflection on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am reading a book right now recommended by a friend called How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer. She recommended this to me when I needed to make a decision and had consulted her; her statement to me was, “You actually already know the answer. Now you’re just trying to rationalize it.” And then she [...]
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 [...]
Fortunate
Posted in Life, tagged action, knowledge on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As recently found in a fortune cookie: Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
Installment #9: What My Toddler Has Taught Me About Adult Learning
Posted in Adult Learners, Change, Higher Education, Learning, Life, Toddlers, tagged adultlearners, Change, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Life, problemsolving, reflection, Toddlers on March 16, 2010 | 6 Comments »
In this day and age, learning requires becoming and being comfortable with ambiguity and finding our way through a tunnel in which the end may not be in sight (or, in fact, in which there may not be an end). In his book Learning as a Way of Being, Peter Vaill calls these conditions of [...]
Let Your Experiences Teach You, Not Define You
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Learning, PLA, Reflection, tagged adultlearners, education, highereducation, knowledge, Learning, Obama, reflection on September 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Earlier today, Obama gave a speech to America’s schoolchildren. My kid isn’t old enough for Obama’s words to be inspirational (unless Obama happens to be driving a trash truck and happily honking at toddlers while passing out balloons, bubbles, and chocolate milk), but I am. And even though Obama’s speech is geared toward children, there [...]
The First Eight Words
Posted in Learning, Life, tagged knowledge, Learning, Life on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
LEARNING: Changes a person makes in himself or herself that increase the know-why and/or the know-what and/or the know-how the person possesses with respect to a given subject. (Learning as a Way of Being, by Peter Vaill, p. 21) Read the first eight words again: Changes a person makes in himself or herself… I second [...]
She’s Ready For What’s Next
Posted in Adult Learners, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, PLA, Writing, tagged adultlearners, education, knowledge, Marylhurst, PLA, Writing on July 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Congrats to Debra Giannini! Debra just completed her 15-credit Prior Learning Assessment Portfolio. Debra is an Interdisciplinary Studies major with concentrations in Psychology and Expressive Therapies. The topics she wrote for are: BIO 165 – Alternatives in Health and Healing BIO 167 – Nutritional Science CHS 354 – Environment, Culture, and Food CCM 342 – [...]
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