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Posted on May 27, 2009
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Effective online discussion facilitation skills – online faculty continue to identify this topic as a priority professional development need. It’s no wonder, given that Berge (1995) and others contend that effective facilitation of online discussions requires an instructor to assume four roles:
Posted on May 27, 2009
Filed Under Engagement, r3 | 1 Comment
I just read a short piece by Judith Ramaley entitled Reflections on the Public Purposes of Higher Education, which was published in the Wingspread Journal in 2007. This article summarizes the major themes and timeline of the notion of higher education and engagement—in scholarship, service, community development, innovation, and the like. It’s a broad and spongy term, in some ways, but I’ll leave the sharpening of the terminology for another time. (Or, perhaps you might offer some definitions on engagement.)
Posted on May 22, 2009
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Technorati is a search engine for blogs. In an effort to connect XLSCommons with the world, this post will ‘claim’ XLSCommons for the Technorati search engine–now we are just one in over a hundred million 
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Posted on May 20, 2009
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Posted on May 15, 2009
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Some people appreciate the status quo. Lately it seems to be a case of status, whoa! Here comes another innovative application to increase our operational efficiencies. As quickly as one comes on the market, another one comes along behind promising to be the best. So the question is which application(s) can best fit the needs of the organization? Read more
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