I have been thinking a lot recently about assessment. First, I’ve been thinking about it because, you know, it’s a lot of what we do as teachers–we try to figure out what students are learning and what they are struggling with. Second, I was part of Nick Roster’s Hacking Assessment Learning Community last year and… Continue Reading Two Takes on Assessment
As part of the college-wide belt tightening this year, CIE’s budget has not been funded. Instead, we are using the money that we have left over from last year to fund our needs for this year. I do not think this will be as bad as it sounds. Because of the pandemic, NMC has instituted… Continue Reading The PD Funding Process for FY20-21
For the past three years, the CIE- and PDI-sponsored NMC October Conference has been a wonderful day of collaboration and engagement for all faculty and staff. However, due to the pandemic, we are not able to collaborate in the same way this year. And I think we all know that no one wants to spend… Continue Reading The October Conference Goes FedEx
The August Conference has traditionally been held on Monday afternoon right after Opening Conference, but because this year will be very different both in terms of meetings and teaching, CIE has decided to take a different approach. Rather than spending an afternoon together right before classes begin learning synchronously, we are going to spread August’s… Continue Reading The All-New August Professional Development Day
Students enrolled in online classes have been required to complete NMC’s Online Learning Orientation (OLO) course since the beginning of the Fall 2019 term. During the Fall 2020 term, OLO will still be required of students taking fully online courses. OLO will not be required for hybrid, livestream or lecture courses. Faculty teaching hybrid, livestream… Continue Reading OLO for the Fall 2020 Term
