by monnier | May 4, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
So far, in these posts, I have mostly discussed tech tools or Blackboard features that I like, think are useful, and use with various frequency. In this post, I want to turn the tables and talk about the tools and features I don’t like, the tools I don’t...
by monnier | Apr 30, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Uncategorized
Remember when metacognition was going to be the theme for the semester (year?) and we all got a free book (raise your hands, how many of you read it??)? And then the world pandemic hit and our priorities shifted to making to the end of the term on remote instruction....
by monnier | Apr 23, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger, Productivity, Quick Tips
Shannon and I, that is. We decided to send out a few quick tips regarding moving from remote instruction to online teaching. Here goes: I would also like to provide a couple of resources for those of us looking for ideas and inspiration. The first one is The K....
by monnier | Apr 20, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
I read somewhere (and for the life of me I can’t remember where and I have too much to grade this week to look it up) that a good idea to help students learn is to generate a unifying theme for your students, a grand narrative of the course, so they can see that...
by monnier | Apr 13, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
Back in the days of the Great MOOC Craze [periodic reminder that there are no good reasons to jump on every Gates-funded bandwagon], I took a MOOC titled Learning How to Learn. I can honestly say that it completely changed my perspective on how I do my job, teaching,...
by monnier | Mar 26, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
Anyone who follows the current pedagogical discussions in higher education has encountered the vilification of the lecture. It’s pretentious (the much-reviled stereotype of the sage on stage), it’s boring, it’s passive, it’s anti-learning....
