Categotry Archives: Administration

Student Feedback for Assessment

About a year ago I was working with an institution on its adoption of an Online Course Evaluation tool. It was a rather long process which included getting information on options and associated costs, piloting the program, responding to the concerns of the faculty about how the surveys would be used, setting up the tool so that the surveys would… (more…)

MITx: a game changer!

The Open CourseWare movement began in 2002 when MIT began offering its courses for free online. Since then, the Open CourseWare offerings have increased significantly, and the effects of that growth have spawned calls for credentialing of learning achieved via OCW.  This year has seen some pretty spectacular progress towards this with the founding of OERU, Badges for Learning, and… (more…)

New Zealand’s ePortfolio system

Yes, you read that title correctly.  The New Zealand Ministry of Education saw so many benefits in having a nationally sponsored system that, in collaboration with Catalyst, they developed an ePortfolio system and offered it to every school in New Zealand.  They even host it for the schools.  Aside from the benefits that ePortfolios bring to teaching and learning, a… (more…)

Preparing Online Courses for the Swine Flu

The listservs are buzzing with the topic of Swine Flu and colleges are preparing to put whole semesters online in case of an epidemic.  Those colleges with the structures in place to do so, can easily do this, but there are a number of institutions that will not be prepared, have not invested in online learning and training of their… (more…)