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Becoming “The Guide on the Side”: Centering Students in Hybrid Courses

Posted on October 20, 2019 by davismae

As long as I’ve been a Spanish teacher (sixteen years now!) we as a profession have been talking about and moving toward student-centered, content-based, and task- or project-based teaching; language instructors have long since stopped seeing themselves as the proverbial … Continue reading →

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Creating Knowledge Through Hands-on Experience

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Emily

The re-worked KIN 511 will require students to apply the rote muscular anatomy knowledge to hands on skills of palpation and identification on a living person as well as acquisition of new evaluative skills that they will be expected to … Continue reading →

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Transitioning from Content Delivery to Skills Facilitation

Posted on February 21, 2019 by scottin

By Inara Scott In the not-so-distant past, if you wanted to learn about a specialized content area–say, eighteenth century literature, nuclear fusion, or microeconomics–you had to go to college. Specialized information about these subjects lived in the mind of professors, … Continue reading →

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Content Curator or Maestro?

Posted on October 10, 2017 by hartem

Reflections of an aging quarterback I was recently describing my current place in academia to a new faculty member. The analogy I used was the gracefully aging quarterback who is excited to be surrounded by talented and dynamic running backs. … Continue reading →

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Avoiding the ‘Sage on the Stage’ Mentality

Posted on January 22, 2016 by bernells

As I have been teaching for 22 years, the transformation in teaching from the ‘sage on the stage’ to a ‘guide on the side’ is tremendous. In the health policy world, there are many wonderful briefs, commentaries and other material … Continue reading →

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Convincing Beginning Poets They Are Makers: Or, Ways to Sidestep Pitfall #4

Posted on January 22, 2016 by holmberk

I found it very difficult to choose a Pitfall, since they all seem interconnected, and since I can identify ways in which I fall for or resist almost all of them in my teaching. However, I think Online Course Design … Continue reading →

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On Being a Sage on the Stage, and Not Being One, and Poetry

Posted on April 14, 2015 by brocki

How can I avoid being the “sage on the stage,” Pitfall #3? As I think about this question, I can’t help but think about the poetry class I taught—on campus—yesterday afternoon. We were talking about imagery, and how a poet’s … Continue reading →

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Trying out my green thumb on Hybrid Course Design

Posted on April 19, 2013 by burnesan

Time to get the gardening gloves out, the water pale, the fertilizer, gardening tools and shears out because Spring is here. Starting as an amateur gardener, I tried out my “green thumb” several years back. I inherited a large patch … Continue reading →

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