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The Faculty Writing Place: A Room Of Our Own, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Peter Elbow Dec 2006

The Faculty Writing Place: A Room Of Our Own, Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Peter Elbow

Mary Deane Sorcinelli

The article presents information about the program called "Professors as Writers" at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. The objective of the program is to provide a quiet and comfortable working place for faculty to write. This program was started 15 year back to help the faculty members to write more productively. The organizers of the program invite all college teachers to sign up for the dates and times that suit them at the beginning of the semester. The program sets aside structured time and space for the faculty to write.


What Keeps Teachers Going? What Keeps Teachers Developing?, Susan Barduhn Jan 2006

What Keeps Teachers Going? What Keeps Teachers Developing?, Susan Barduhn

Susan Barduhn

No abstract provided.


The Clil Symposium: Content And Language Integrated Learning, Susan Barduhn Jan 2006

The Clil Symposium: Content And Language Integrated Learning, Susan Barduhn

Susan Barduhn

No abstract provided.


God's Gon' Trouble The Water: An American Academic's Retrospective On Hurricane Katrina, Fred A. Bonner Ii Jan 2006

God's Gon' Trouble The Water: An American Academic's Retrospective On Hurricane Katrina, Fred A. Bonner Ii

Fred A Bonner II

No abstract provided.


Leaving Black Males Behind: Debunking The Myths Of Meritocratic Education, R Hughes, Fred A. Bonner Ii Jan 2006

Leaving Black Males Behind: Debunking The Myths Of Meritocratic Education, R Hughes, Fred A. Bonner Ii

Fred A Bonner II

No abstract provided.


Harnessing Innovative Technologies In Higher Education, Kathleen P. King, Joan K. Griggs Jan 2006

Harnessing Innovative Technologies In Higher Education, Kathleen P. King, Joan K. Griggs

Kathleen P King

This publication is an attempt to capture the evolution of distributed higher education over the last decade by tracing the applications of new technologies funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). As FIPSE surveyed the current state of distance/distributed education, there existed an opportunity to help post econdary education make the transition to this new generation of distance education made possible by the explosive growth of the Internet and other new technologies. These technologies created the potential for students to access learning that was interactive, customized, and self-paced; to more easily merge lifelong learning with the …