Well, at least many students think they are very cool. I have slowly moved my courses to a quest-based assignment system. I have taken my regular assignments and tests and broken them up over the semester so students are doing many small things rather than a few big...
At what point do kids lose their interest in school? It happens, let’s not fool ourselves. How do we take a human, that is intensely curious of the world and grind that out of them? Watch any growing up and you can see them performing experiments constantly. The...
Now that the semester end is rapidly approaching, the Assessment Team would like to remind you of a few items to complete in terms of assessment. Gen Ed Scoring Please make sure that you are scoring all students in all courses that support Gen Ed in which you teach....
Welcome back from spring break. As we near the end of the semester, I wanted to take a little time and update you on a few assessment-related pieces of news. First, we have received comments on our report to the Higher Learning Commission, and they were very positive....
We have been seeing this phrase, or something like it, more often these days. There are quite a few instructors at NMC that have delved into this idea of Mastery Learning. I have been using this principle with my courses in conjunction with gamification. Using new...
