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What values drive your culture?
“Culture is a balanced blend of human psychology, attitudes, actions, and beliefs that combined create either pleasure or pain, serious momentum or miserable stagnation. A strong culture flourishes...
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Anti-evolution mentality could banish US to backwaters of science
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-r-miller/darwin-day-evolution_b_1269191.html I’m ashamed of my fellow Americans who let dogma overrule science. They refer to evolution as ‘just’ a theory, even...
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A better approach for online teaching
http://jolt.merlot.org/vol7no4/brinthaupt_1211.htm ABSTRACT: As a core project, a university eLearning Pedagogy Faculty Learning Community (FLC) chose to apply recommendations for the “art” of good...
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Meta-ideas and the development of genius
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/st_essay_genius/ It turns out that human geniuses aren’t scattered randomly across time and space. Instead, they tend to arrive in tight clusters. This “excess of...
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Thought-patterns of success in learning environments
Insights from the following Harvard Business Review blog post can apply as equally well to higher education as to the world of business:...
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The joy-driven learning environment
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04/wheres-the-joy-in-learning/ . . . teacher-centric lessons are much less likely to generate joy than are lessons focused on the student, the authors report. The...
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Student motivation essential to school reform
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/the-missing-link-in-school-reform-student-motivation/257770/ Schools nationwide are experimenting with initiatives aimed at boosting student...
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‘Let them eat MOOC’
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/vice-chancellor-survey-dismisses-moocs-threat/2004945.article In what I’ll call the ‘let them eat cake’ moment for higher education, a vice-chancellor was...
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