So, what are you doing between New Year’s and the start of the spring semester? Instead of spending weeks on the treadmill trying to work off weight gained during the holidays, why not spend it with me in Prague, Vienna, and Budapest? I’m leading a study tour of the great cities of East Central Europe…
Participatory education?
For several decades, two of the most popular buzzphrases in educational innovation have been “collaborative learning” and “cooperative learning.” The degree to which a course is more or less the sage on the stage dispensing information to students taking notes (and trying to stay awake) is often seen today as a measure of the quality…
Best Practices?
In a couple of earlier posts (1) (2) I described a project I’ve been a consultant to that is examining best practices in the teaching of introductory college courses. We held our final meeting on Monday during which we reviewed the 15 top syllabi (out of something like 115) to determine what elements of “best…
What’s for dinner (cont’d)
In two previous posts (1) (2), I explored what happened when the historical archaeologists Julie Schlabitsky and Kelly Dixon used modern forensic archaeology techniques to investigate what happened at the Donner family encampment. I also described what happened to my edits of the Wikipedia entry on the Donner Party (which has now been edited 34…