David Albrecht, associate professor of Accounting and Management Information Systems, presented last week on “Why All Professors Should Blog.” He provided examples and led discussion about: Why you should blog, What you should blog about, and How to get started. A blog post he wrote a few months ago nicely summarizes his main arguments. Now it’s your turn… […]
Continue Reading 1 comment April 13th, 2009
This presentation, “Disruptive Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities” by Grainne Conole was delivered at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008, in London, England. In this video, Conole discusses how Web 2.0 has changing our learning and teaching paradigms. She discusses how we need to develop new models to understand the relationship between pedagogy and technology. In […]
Continue Reading March 11th, 2009
This past weekend our Interact at the Center blog (originally started on Blogger) just passed 10,000 visitors. Our blog started out in 2006 and less than three years later we are proud to say that our “blogging” has been successful. We make efforts to publish interesting and helpful postings and we appreciate everyone who has […]
Continue Reading March 8th, 2009
To instructors, who have received an extensive formal education, knowing exactly what a test is asking may come easy. For some students, though, the ability to know exactly what they should do when words like “analyze” or “discuss” on exam can be vague and even foreign. Teachingprofessor.com, one of our favorite websites, recently published a […]
Continue Reading March 2nd, 2009
While the Internet has opened us to a world of information and sources, it can also cause problems in our classrooms. The Internet has provided our students with a wealth of websites that will sell, barter and even give away research papers, English papers and essays. How do you combat this in our classes? In […]
Continue Reading November 24th, 2008
Would you like to be discuss over 37 thousand topics concerning higher education with more than 22 thousand people around the world? Do you have a strong opinion about some practice in the classroom that you want to share with someone? The Chronicle for Higher Education has a discussion forum where you can peruse more […]
Continue Reading August 7th, 2008
Just last week an article by Andrea L. Foster was published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The article has been generating plenty of traffic and just as much discussion. If you wonder why the article may be attracting so many readers, please read the first two paragraphs of her article (below) and what she […]
Continue Reading August 1st, 2008
Would you like to be able to read what people all over the world are saying in the realm of higher education about an array of interesting topics? If this is something you would like, then you should read what a huge network of professionals share almost everyday on Tomorrow’s Professor. This is a collaborative […]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2008
Today the BG News published an article about different blogs around campus. The article features information and insight about blogs run by the Center, a campus department, and some professors. Reporter, Angie Burdge describes how blogging systems will have, “a new way for professors and students to communicate.” The link to the article is below […]
Continue Reading July 23rd, 2008
Nicholas Carr recently wrote an article for the Atlantic Monthly about what he believes the Internet is doing to people’s brains. Carr’s, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” asks the question over whether people are relying far too much on the Internet for instant access to information, and changing the ways we think and altering “our […]
Continue Reading July 14th, 2008
