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ITC eLearning, Day 1 – Morning
The Future of eLearning in Higher Education: Shifts, Trends, the Expected and Unexpected Christina Royal, Ph.D., Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Inver Hills Community College Virtual education or distance learning made the list of top 10 breakthroughs to transform life in the next 20 years.What are the things that we have to unlearn about institutions?…
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ITC, Pre-Conference Day
I’ve lost count on the number of ITC conferences that I’ve been to over the years, but today began another. The location: Orlando, Florida. The first day is usually the pre-conference workshops, and this year I was a presenter. My session this year was iPad Apps for Teaching and Learning. I had 2.5 hours to…
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Professional Resolutions
I’ve been known from time to time to create New Years’ Resolutions. I mean, who isn’t? I’ve created personal ones, family ones, and even some professional ones. I’ve never really understood why people create them—myself included. Everyone ends up breaking the resolutions, either intentionally or unintentionally. Some people create lofty goals for the new year:…
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Career Quandaries, Part 1
Yes, I double-checked the spelling of “quandaries.” It is, in fact, the plural of “quandary.”Things have been… interesting… lately at work. We got a new Asst. Provost for e-Learning about a month ago. She seems great and has a lot of good ideas. I’m not sure yet how things will go when she tries implementing…
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QM Reviews
It’s been about 3-4 years since I finished my QM certifications through qualitymatters.org. Since then, I haven’t had the opportunity to participate in a complete QM review of any course, internal or external. I’ve always been interested to see how the process works as opposed to how it’s “suppose” to work. I still haven’t been…
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Tracking Student Success: Traditional/Non-Traditional Students
This article was posted was posted today in the Chronicle of Higher Education:More Colleges Track Nontraditional Students’ Success – StudentsHere’s my question – what about tracking the success of traditional students? Why is tracking non-traditional students the best thing since sliced bread? I understand that non-traditional students have a lower success rate, but it’s not…