Summary and Review of “Incentives and Barriers to OER Adoption: A Qualitative Analysis of Faculty Perceptions” by Olga Maria Belikov & Robert Bodily.
I’ve been doing some reading to prep for a conference presentation in February, and I thought I’d share some findings about barriers to OER adoption. I particularly liked this study when I came across it in my research because of the methodology that was used. This...
Spring & Summer 2017 Moodle Course Shells Now Available
We recently created the Moodle course shells for all Spring 2017 and Summer 2017 courses. You should see courses assigned to you in your course list. The spring term has the 1702 semester code and summer has 1703. This number follows the unique four digit CRN for each...
Too Scary!
[Image: "Bull in a China Shop" by Gwen's River City Images, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] In one of my daughter’s favorite TV programs is an episode she used to love: A bull in a china shop. Mr. Bull breaks his teapot and takes to to be fixed at Ms. Rabbit’s China Shop,...
Peeking Into Knowledge
I am a huge fan of the recently deceased Dallas Willard. Dallas was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, prolific writer, and deep thinker about things that matter. He left this earth around 3 years ago. Recently I was rereading...
Algorithms to Improve Your Life
If you don't listen to the podcast "Note to Self," I would encourage you to do so. Last year I wrote a post on one of Manoush's (the host) podcasts and she has some wonderful bits on the tech side of being human. Recently I listened to an episode about how to use...
Life Happens
Life happens. I teach classes to students who are entering or are already in jobs where my class is considered part of the career development. They are not going to transfer to another school. They do not want a degree, but one would be nice. They are in the class...
Professional Development Day a Success!
[slideshow_deploy id='10987'] Student veterans, models of molecules, fillable PDFs, moral inquiry, electronic portfolios--these were just a few of the forty five topics available to faculty and staff at our first annual Faculty Staff Professional Development Day. Our...
Around Campus: CIT New Faculty
We would like to welcome Lisa Balbach and introduce her to the NMC community. Lisa joined the Business Area this fall as an instructor in the CIT Department and comes to us with five years of experience as a programmer/analyst and over 25 years of teaching experience....
Placement Changes for Spring 2017 and Beyond
In the past year and a half there have been a number of changes that have spurred the Student Success Center, Advising Center, Communications Department, Math Department, and the Office of Research, Planning and Effectiveness to rethink our processes surrounding...
Meet Paragraph
Before you work on your next document, take a moment and meet Paragraph and the tools it offers to help make things easier for you. No more using the spacebar for formatting! Bullets – Create a list of non-sequential items. Numbering – Create a list of sequential...