Qs Learning Stories - April 30 Lessons Learned
Our last Learning Stories Luncheon with 2007 CDI Fellows has come and gone. Over 40 faculty and staff attended and we got to most of their questions except the following two for Adisa:
He talked about students’ dislike of the online essay (vs. attending class) assignment and a question was raised:
- Is it possible students’ dislike has more to do with the essay than it being online? Any thoughts about different online activities that might be more interactive or engaging?
- Do you think students would like online essay questions if they had greater flexibility? Not only between 9-12? Keep the 50 minute limit but extend the window where students can access.
Learning Stories - Chapter 3 Moral of the Story, Lessons Learned,Resurrection in the Next Semester
Our last learning stories luncheon is on Wed, April 30 11:30-1:00, in the Faculty Staff Club. The following fellows with be sharing their stories:
Kurt Lindemann, Val Renegar and Brian Spitzberg - Communication
Patricia Geist-Martin - Communication
Adisa Alkebulan - Africana Studies
Hope to see you there, for the last chapter this semester!
Suzanne
Open Source Textbooks
“Continuing their campaign to draw attention to the cost of textbooks, the Student Public Interest Research Groups celebrated Tuesday what they’re calling a major milestone — reaching 1,000 professors who’ve signed a statement supporting the use of free, online and open source textbooks.”
Read more in Inside Higher Ed: Professors Gone Paperless
Fully Online Courses Coming to SDSU in Summer 2008
I was happy to see this headline in the SDSUniverse article today, and to note that four of the five courses have been pilot tested in pICT and the CDI.
March 25th Learning Stories Videos up on YouTube
You can find them here. I’ve also added PowerPoint presentations from 2005/6 Fellows to our Slideshare. There’s a wall of the slides. I’m not sure “wall” is the right term, now that I’m Facebooking. There are walls and super walls and I don’t know exactly what they’re about. Anyway, nothing more to report. The videos are in two parts (They can only be 10 minutes long on YouTube).
