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Let’s make discussion forums more significant in the online classroom
No full textAs part of a senior capstone course, one of the graduating students developed a tutorial to enhance online learning. After surveying current students and collaboration with the health sciences librarian and faculty, two priorities for improvement emerged. These were identified as ways to help students work in groups and use discussion forums more effectively. This presentation will include sharing what was learned through the literature, a tutorial that was developed for students and how the effectiveness of the teaching strategy is being evaluated. Come learn about how to enhance your own online instruction
A Christmas Carol
No full textEbenezer Scrooge is a prosperous curmudgeon who believes personal wealth is far more valuable than the happiness and comfort of others. With an infuriated \u22Bah! Humbug!\u22 Scrooge expresses his feelings on Christmas tidings and charity, but he\u27s soon forced to face his selfish ways. On Christmas Eve three ghosts lead him through his Past, Present and Future. Thanks to their guidance, Scrooge recognizes his faults and greets Christmas morning with a cheerful \u22Happy Christmas!\u22 before spending the day reconnecting and sharing love with those that mean the most to him.Scrooge and his ghostly encounters come to life in this lavish and thrilling Broadway adaptation. Broadway heavy hitters Alan Menken (Disney\u27s Beauty And The Beast, Disney\u27s The Little Mermaid, Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical, Once On This Island) breathe fantastic new life into this classic tale
IPFW Symphonic Wind Ensemble performance in Carnegie Hall including \u22Forever Summer\u22
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Evaluating the Impact of an Academic Teacher Development Program: Practical Realities of an Evidence-Based Study
No full textThis study aimed to assess the impact of an entire academic teacher development programme at a Midwestern masters comprehensive university in the United States over a period of five years by examining changes in teaching and student outcomes of nine randomly selected programme participants. Researchers analysed syllabi, course evaluations, grade distributions, programme activity reports, interviews and vita, and concluded that the centre’s impact was greatest on tenure-track faculty who struggled with their teaching. Far more useful to future improvement, however, were the insights gained from reflection on study methods, the researchers’ emotional responses to their findings, their struggle to make sense of the data and grappling with the definition of ‘impact’. In this paper, the researchers share useful lessons learned and illustrate the difficulties inherent in evaluating academic development programmes, with a view to qualifying recommendations currently prevailing in the literature
Coming of Age: Amish Heritage Literacy Practices of Rumspringa, Adult Baptism, and Shunning
No full text2016 Award for Excellence in Distance Learning Emerging Innovation
No full textDr. Millspaw received the award for the use of LED kits to create an experiential learning opportunity for students in his online course, Light and Color. The award recognizes faculty or staff members who demonstrate excellence in the development or teaching of a distance learning activity (course, workshop, or seminar) and to promote creative and effective approaches to distance learning
On fixed points, diagonalization, and self-reference
Get PDFWe clarify the respective role fixed points, diagonalization, and self- reference play in proofs of G ̈odel’s first incompleteness theorem. We first show that the usual fixed-point construction can be reduced to a double diagonalization; this is done to address widely held views such as that fixed-point are “paradoxical” (Priest), or work by “black magic” (Soare), or that their construction is “intuitively unclear” (Kotlarski). We then discuss three notions of self-reference; this can be seen an extension of a recent study by Halbach and Visser and is meant to show that we do not (yet?) have a robust theory that would allow us to establish a firm link between fixed points and self-reference