Moodle’s New Face Lift

Moodle’s New Face Lift

What changed? You’ll notice updates to the editing icons and and to the action menu for blocks; as well as improvements to the text editor. Many of these changes have been implemented by Moodle in an effort to increase accessibility of Moodle by improving navigation,...
NMC’s teaching@NMC in Faculty Focus Article

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?

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

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...