More on the Educause challenges for 2009
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 19th, 2009
Back in February, this blog listed the Educause top 5 learning and teaching challenges for 2009:
Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation
Developing 21st-century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty
Reaching and engaging today’s learners
Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT
Advancing innovation in [...]
Graduate Capabilities resources
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on May 25th, 2009
Check out our new resources around graduate capabilities at MQ!
These include the following PDFs for downloading:
Graduate Capabilities Framework (PDF - 224k)
Graduate Capabilities FAQs (PDF version of this page - 284k)
Graduate Capabilities Policy links (PDF - 172k)
Graduate Capabilities and Learning Outcomes (PDF - 135k)
Graduate Capabilities - how and what we teach (PDF - 100k)
Download lectures from youtube
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on March 25th, 2009
Wired Campus reports that YouTube have began testing a new feature that lets users download videos posted to the site rather than just watching the videos in a streaming format. Universities are making their lecture videos free using Creative Commons licenses. The unis involved so far include Stanford, Duke, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UCTV.
Scott Stocker, [...]
Lifelong learning
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on March 2nd, 2009
Bruce Petty’s vision of ‘lifelong learning’ :
Petty describes his work as “simply a way of pointing out bits of information that [I] suspect someone has got wrong … I think that my professional life is basically finding niches and gaps.”
Top 5 teaching and learning challenges for 2009
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 17th, 2009
Educause have used a wiki to identify the top teaching and learning challenges for 2009. The final list, ranked by popularity, includes:
Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation.
Developing 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual).
Reaching and engaging today’s learner.
Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in [...]
The National GAP
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on August 28th, 2008
How do we teach institution-wide graduate attributes? How can we measure the capabilities of our graduates? How can universities bridge the gap between institutional rhetoric and the reality of the student learning experiences?
Theresa Winchester-Seeto and Agnes Bosanquet from the LTC attended the National Graduate Attributes Project (GAP) Symposium which was held at the University of [...]