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Keeping learning fresh with new resources: where do you find the time?
"This is really cool. Where do you find the time to do all of this?" --email from Jimmy Dawson, NMC criminal justice adjunct and friend The answer's easy~it's part of my instructional designer role. In fact, it is one of the most fun things I get to do! As a...
NMC’s teaching@NMC in Faculty Focus Article
There was another nice mention of NMC and our teaching@NMC website on December 13, 2013. The 4x4x16 Challenge that we created at NMC was mentioned by Todd Conaway, the originator of the idea from Yavapai College in Arizona. Faculty Respond to the Challenge: Write...
Competent at What?
This article describes an upcoming effort by a new national group, the Competency-Based Education Network, to define and shape deployment of competency-based learning in higher ed. C-BEN will include representatives of U.S. colleges and universities at the leading...
A Global Lens
"What lens do you use to look at the world?" "How can we help students explore and find greater depth, to see that things can be accomplished in so many different ways, and not just in terms of our own value systems? How can different value systems co-exist within...