I'm labeling this for Connected Courses since that experience is what reinvigorated this blog and got me started doing these posts, and also OU CTE (Center for Teaching Excellence - here's the RSS) because I keep hoping something might come of Adam's plan to run a kind of blog hub to get a bigger, better online conversation going at OU in the coming year!
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Presumably Connected Courses will not be over until the last connected course is over. That is, never. (source)
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You can describe it forever but it’s the doing that will convince people. (source)
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Isn't part of the "problem" with fostering change the fact that most institutions put faculty development resources towards face-to-face workshops? (source)
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. (source)
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The academic definition of research is far too narrow. Research is also what we don't yet understand — what we don't yet have language for. (source)
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Grades are good at measuring levels of task completion and bad at measuring the impact those tasks have on meaningful & sustained learning. (source)
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I remained convinced that it is absolutely impossible to create a useful cheap standardized test for writing. The repeated attempts to do so are a destructive expression of a nearly nihilistic impulse, the thinking of people who believe a picture of a bear rug is as good as a bear. (source)
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