| 1. | Facilitator's FINAL thoughts!
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 31/05/2007 14:51
Many thanks, Jim, for sharing your experience with us and dealing so patiently and helpfully with ... |
| 2. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 31/05/2007 14:40
Well done, Jim; truly encouraging. Very best wishes for the next run of the course. |
| 3. | RE: Review of Hernandez Case Study
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 31/05/2007 13:03
You did a great job on the chat, Rosario, dealing with that avalanche of questions!Regarding student... |
| 4. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 31/05/2007 12:51
Was the percentage of enrolled students taking the exam about the same as last year, Jim? |
| 5. | RE: Large Teaching Teams
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 31/05/2007 10:09
Charlotte highlights the essential idea here -- although the enrolment is large (like on an Open Uni... |
| 6. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 31/05/2007 09:49
From radio onwards, so much of modern technology excels at delivering information to mass audiences ... |
| 7. | RE: Comments on papers; questions for authors and participants
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 23:52
You say, Stephen, that: "...workload is a slippery concept. I've only seen one study of how much tim... |
| 8. | RE: Technology - a pedagogical Trojan Horse?
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 23:39
Well, Jenny, as you say: "New technologies can be a springboard for us to reexamine teaching methodo... |
| 9. | RE: Assessment and workload
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 18:06
Thanks Stephen, those are useful looking resources you've drawn to our attention. |
| 10. | RE: Review of Hernandez Case Study
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 18:01
Thanks Martin, that's some interesting material you've pointed out to us. |
| 11. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 17:49
For me, one of the essentials of the first-year experience is that each student needs individualised... |
| 12. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 16:53
Alec raises the interesting issue of how to co-ordinate large teams of teachers teaching and assessi... |
| 13. | RE: Review of Hernandez Case Study
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 12:22
For me, Rosario's interesting case study raises the question of how far, in inviting students to for... |
| 14. | RE: Facilitator Topic Response
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 11:37
Hello Anna, You ask "do you think it is necessary to complement this formative assessment (improv... |
| 15. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 11:03
Hi Sue: Welcome to the free-for-all!You ask how can we encourage first-years to take seriously the t... |
| 16. | RE: Assessment and workload
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 30/05/2007 10:41
I guess you're talking about instructor workload here, Stephen, and my own Open University experienc... |
| 17. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 29/05/2007 20:20
I am amusing myself trying to imagine Jim Baxter with a whistle trying to do speed networking with h... |
| 18. | RE: Assessing first year learning
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 29/05/2007 19:16
Thanks for that elucidation, Mary and Mark. I see I've been "speaking prose" all my professional lif... |
| 19. | RE: Facilitator's first thoughts
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 29/05/2007 19:14
Thanks, Jim. So they're all singing from the same hymn sheet, more or less. |
| 20. | RE: Facilitator's first thoughts
Posted By Derek Rowntree on 29/05/2007 16:45
Next time you're online, Jim, I wonder if you can remind us what learning resources your students us... |
