May, 2018

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10 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Course Materials

Eric Stoller

When I was a college student, there were times when I skipped out on buying a required textbook for a course. Finances were always tight, so I tried to balance my checkbook with buying actual books. Even then, textbooks weren’t cheap. Today, students are paying more and more for their higher education experience. If a university can find ways to make attending college more affordable, accessible, and “high-tech/high-touch”, well, it’s not really an option, it’s a necessity.

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27 Quick Questions to Assess Student Learning

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

One of the most important aspects of developing residence hall curriculum is the establishment of assessment practices that measure student learning. The use of Bloom’s Taxonomy and its related verbs can help in this regard by ensuring that the outcomes we seek to achieve are specific and measurable. But how do we actually do the.

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University of Cambridge: Bulletin Research on Instagram

Terminalfour

A regular post on Instagram, these bulletin style videos rack up thousands of views, while spreading the word about the university

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What are Residential Curriculum Goals and Narratives and How to Write Them

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Goals and narratives are perhaps the least appreciated, understood, and often confused components of a residential curriculum. In reviewing the cascade of learning objectives in a curriculum, one starts with an educational priority. An educational priority is a broad summary statement of what students will learn as a result of their participation in the curriculum.

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What can you do about negativity on social media?

Terminalfour

How should your university react? It is not enough to have a customer service or public relations strategy in place.

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Great idea: DePaul University, I am DePaul

Terminalfour

We loved DePaul University’s idea of launching a separate Instagram account just for student stories.

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5 Signs Your Residential Curriculum is Actually a Programming Model with Learning Outcomes

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Curricular approaches are more than just writing and defining learning priorities, goals, outcomes. In many ways, implementing a curricular approach is as much about organizational change as it is about defining a structure. This is one of the reasons why Kerr, Tweedy, Edwards, and Kimmel (2017) call it a "paradigm shift." The word "paradigm" is most.

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