Tag Archives: Higher Education

Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Katrin Becker

Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education. This isn’t news. I’ve been doing this for decades. Not long after I started teaching, I came to realize that a good way to … Continue reading →

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Future Work Skills 2020 ~ repost from Stephen’s Web

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Katrin Becker

A well-written report from The Apollo Research Institute Thanks to Stephen for bringing this to our attention (again). Future Work Skills 2020 ~ Stephen’s Web. Here’s a direct link to the report.   Be the first to like. Like Unlike

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The Problem with Taxonomies in Education

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Katrin Becker

I’ve been following a discussion on one of the education forums that is discussing the utility of

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Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Katrin Becker

Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog. Mark Guzdial comments on a post made on (LISTSERV 16.0 – AERA-L Archives.) by Richard Hake, who disagrees with the popular (especially among administrators) notion that student … Continue reading →

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Frankencode and Other Writing

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Katrin Becker

Students, Reading and Writing – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. A former student of mine once coined a phrase that he used to describe the phenomenon whereby students take bits of code from various other programs and stitch … Continue reading →

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Academic Travesties – Open Access Publishing

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Katrin Becker

I got ANOTHER invitation to publish an article the other day – this time it was a call for book chapters. I get quite a few of these, as I’m sure others do too. Personalized invitations are always flattering, but … Continue reading →

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Pseudoteaching

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Katrin Becker

[PT] Pseudoteaching: MIT Physics | Action-Reaction. Here’s a lovely label I’ve been wanting for years. Pseudoteaching is something you realize you’re doing after you’ve attempted a lesson which from the outset looks like it should result in student learning, but … Continue reading →

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Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Katrin Becker

Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers. This is an interesting post on decisions made by some universities regarding which LMS to choose. Thanks to Rod Corbett for putting this in my path. I must say that I found Moodle pretty … Continue reading →

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