Changing the Landscape of Higher Education
She anticipates more growth more quickly in the field of active learning, growth that will change the landscape of higher education. So...
National Forum on Active Learning Classrooms
I am looking forward to presenting a paper and PowerPoint at the 3rd Biennial National Forum on Active Learning Classrooms in two days at...
Self-aware and Better Human Beings
In 2013, Hart Research Associates issued a report on an online survey they conducted “from January 9 to 13, 2013…among 318 employers...
What Active Learning Is Not
I accidentally came across an editorial in The Huffington Post by Keith M. Parsons, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston,...
Big-Picture Thinking
In “Assessing the Future: Eportfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education,” by Michael Reese and Ron Levy of Johns Hopkins...
Later Thoughts on the Eportfolio
What makes eportfolio viable as a pedagogy for our students should also be a significant factor in convincing our peers of its merit....
Early Thoughts on the Fall Eportfolio
I'm trying to create a model of the eportfolio design I want for my fall Composition I classes in our active learning classroom,...
Active Classroom and Cyber Spaces
The excellent website on eportfolios maintained by the Rhetoric and Writing Department at the University of Mississippi contends that...
Eportfolios and Core Composition
Dr. Lindsay Doukopoulos and I are working together this summer to design an eportfolio version of our core composition classes for the...
Thesis Days
At a basic level, composition and literature classes both ask how we understand and interact with the world. They both explore how we...
