Learning While “Paying a Debt to Society”
The ultimate “win-win” proposition: Scientists get “research collaborators and inmates get a job that beats stamping out license plates”. Forest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni is using prisoners to learn how best to cultivate the dwindling prairie plants in a National Science […]
Student Blogs: Reflection for the Student and Perspective for the Applicant
Refection is pivotal to learning. Since it is hard to write without reflecting on an experience, blogs are a wonderful aid to reflection. I have been thinking about patient blogs recently, and explored other types of blogs to see the […]
3 Biggest Myths about Teaching Online Education
Like most of the students who enroll in an online course thinking it’ll be a walk in the park, instructors also fantasize about the simplicity of teaching a course from the confines of their own home. Maybe that’s why the […]
A Great Example of a Storyboard for Improving Hand Hygiene
I love to create storyboards for courses, presentations, you name it, usually using a Post-It Easel Pad. But I rarely see other people’s storyboards, primitive like mine or slick and polished. The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare created a […]
Study Better – When Did You Last Reflect on the Process and How to Improve It?
We all study, whether we are students, teachers, or professionals, when we need to learn something, but rarely stop to reflect on the process and how to improve it. My student, Pam Ressler, published a brief guide to studying. I […]