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Customer Is Always Right, Right? Freshman Commissioning Service, Erik Hoekstra
Customer Is Always Right, Right? Freshman Commissioning Service, Erik Hoekstra
Pro Rege
This is a transcription of the fall Convocation Address, delivered by Dr. Erik Hoekstra, President of Dordt College on August 29, 2014.
Teaching History With Google Earth, Joseph Jasper
Teaching History With Google Earth, Joseph Jasper
Student Work
Utilizing technology to teach subjects like history or geography can be more challenging than for other subjects. However, Google Earth is a tool that has an opportunity to create an interactive and visual experience that can be used instead of or in conjunction with a more traditional PowerPoint presentation. In this session, I will explain and demonstrate some ways in which I have explored using this tool in a classroom in order to have that more valuable educational experience, along with the results and reactions of its use.
Is It Time To Teach Traditional Undergrads As Adult Learners?, Steve Holtrop, Eric Forseth
Is It Time To Teach Traditional Undergrads As Adult Learners?, Steve Holtrop, Eric Forseth
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Students vote with their tuition dollars, and over half may now be classified as adult learners. Focusing on the learner's needs and behaviors means integrating relevant life and work experiences into our courses and addressing all students' need for respect, practical applications, and varied learning tasks.
Augustine’S De Musica In The 21st Century Music Classroom, John Macinnis
Augustine’S De Musica In The 21st Century Music Classroom, John Macinnis
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Augustine’s De musica is all that remains of his ambitious plan to write a cycle of works describing each of the liberal arts in terms of Christian faith and is actually unfinished; whereas the six books extant today primarily examine rhythm, Augustine intended to write about melody also. The sixth book of De musica was better known in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages than the first five, and it takes up philosophical questions of aesthetics related to the proportionate ordering discernable throughout creation. After a brief introduction summarizing De musica’s content and its importance in subsequent Christian writings, my …
Business To Academia: Taking Lean From Pella Corporation To Dordt College, Dale Zevenbergen
Business To Academia: Taking Lean From Pella Corporation To Dordt College, Dale Zevenbergen
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Presentation from the Second Annual Siouxland Lean Consortium Conference held in Sioux City, Iowa, January 13, 2015,