resistance

DK: re: faculty resistance 2 new tech. faculty need 2 remember, we are in the business of learning. the best way 2 facilitate it is 2 model it.
November 9 at 11:41am via Twitter
SB:
I understand their concern. It changes so much and we have to keep up with it. Especially in my field where things [...]

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on target education

interesting (and right on target) education model: power of NotSchool.net (UK) – moving the role of teacher to facilitator/mentor; shifting the role of student to researcher; not course-based but project-based to create relevant learning across the curriculum. US Westwood School is doing this also: http://3.ly/Um8

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more thoughts on education

I posted a FB status update via twitter that apparently stirred quite a reaction, and sparked a very long discussion that included education, politics, satire and a few other topics. It’s interesting to me the caliber of conversations that happen via Facebook. Makes for some interesting thinking…
DK: frustrated with a public education system that [...]

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serendipity

It seems that some of my best teaching moments come via serendipity, from times when I have a goal in mind but don’t know exactly how I want to get students from here to there so I just try something out… and it works. A few years ago, I started teaching a new class filled [...]

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student comments

Only two weeks in, from one of my online classes…
I am very much enjoying how interactive this class is, and shocked at how much I have to learn in the digital computer world! (~EB, CSCI101, Fall 09)
So far this class has been a lot better than I expected. I thought it would be boring and [...]

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End of course comments

names used with permission
Thanks for your input and quick responses Debby. I appreciate you jumping into our chat–that was cool and unexpected…as an instructor I will be sure to do that…you really perked me up that you cared enough to jump in and contribute! (Gary Lechner, Biology Professor, Butte College, Moodle, Summer ‘09)
I learned a [...]

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student comments

“I’m taking two other CSCI courses this summer, and I can honestly say that nothing I can think of needs to be improved. You are always available to the students, and there is a constant sense of presence from you… I’ve learned that Steve Jobs was right, you’ve got to do what you love – [...]

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A Few Words about CCOnline

Ms. Olivera,

I just wanted to take this opportunity, as I take a breath between the end of summer courses and the beginning of the fall term, to compliment the Cerro Coso online faculty for wonderful, enriching, and challenging courses. Taking these courses online allows me to [...]

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checking in journals

“I enjoy the organized structure of this class; I always know what is due and when it is due which is very conducive to the learning environment.” ~sh, csci101, summer09
“The instructor is great and seems very positive and i really enjoy that kind of motivation.” ~cs, csci101, summer09
“If you mean what can be improved in [...]

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my mad scientist

This describes my mad scientist to a T!
“Physicists, it turns out, are almost perfectly suited to invading other people’s disciplines, being not only extremely clever, but also generally much less fussy than most about the problems they choose to study. Physicists tend to see themselves as the lords of the academic jungle, loftily regarding their [...]

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