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VOCAT and the Question of Openness

July 21, 2009 | by Mikhail Gershovich | 6 Comments

x-posted from cac.ophony.org
It recently occurred to me that very little has been written about the Schwartz Communication Institute’s most ambitious and potentially most promising project, our Video Oral Communication Assessment Tool, or VOCAT. I have presented on VOCAT a number of times over the years (most recently at the 2009 Computers and Writing conference in [...]

Jul

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Blackboard Tips

July 19, 2009 | by Elisabeth Gareis | Leave a Comment

The following blog post on http://www.smartteaching.org/blog may be of interest. It features links to Blackboard tips and tutorials:
 http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/0…

Jul

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Calculus vs. Probability & Statistics

July 2, 2009 | by Will Millhiser | 1 Comment

As many know, there are ongoing committees in both the Weissman and Zicklin Schools working toward improving the quantitative skills of our undergraduates. A central question I’ve heard in both committees is how much calculus, probability and statistics an undergraduate college student should study. On this point, Harvey Mudd College mathematician Arthur Benjamin argued for [...]

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Not Seeing the War For the Battles

July 1, 2009 | by Glenn Petersen | 3 Comments

The following is a portion of a letter to the editor that appeared in the June 15, 2009 NY Times. It addresses purported changes in the ways history is taught, but it is rooted in a larger perspective I have encountered many times and I bring it to our blog as a springboard to raise [...]