If you are looking to spend some time this summer enhancing your teaching toolkit, the Teaching+Learning Center will be hosting a Faculty Learning Community (FLC). The topic will include strategies to strengthen students' self-awareness and learning skills. We will meet five times at a date and time to be determined by the FLC membership and will use Dr. Linda Nilson's book Creating Self-Regulated Learners (which will be provided by the Teaching+Learning Center). If you are interested in participating or need additional information, please send an email to pourciaut@mybrcc.edu.
DISRUPTING OURSELVES: THE PROBLEM OF LEARNING IN HIGHER ED
Dr. Randy Bass has written a thought provoking post about the intersection of what we know about teaching and the application of that knowledge to enhance learning. A growing appreciation for the porous boundaries
between the classroom and life experience, along with the power of
social learning, authentic audiences, and integrative contexts, has
created not only promising changes in learning but also disruptive
moments in teaching. Our understanding of learning has expanded at a rate that has far outpaced our conceptions of teaching. This tension between an expansion of learning and the limits of our structures is intrinsic to the learning paradigm. Read the entire post here.
WHERE IS ONLINE EDUCATION HEADING
Yoram Neumann and Edith Neumann tell us what we have learned about online education over the past few decades. In its infancy, online learning was viewed as a more accessible
alternative for students unable to commit to the traditional higher
education path. But in recent years online education has been gaining
more acceptance. The most recent U.S. Department of Education data from
fall 2014 indicate that 5.8 million students took at least one online
course, with 2.85 million of them studying exclusively online. After
thousands of online launches and millions of students, it is important
to assess the advancement made in online learning as we look to further
enhance online learning for future students. Read more here.
