{"id":259,"date":"2005-01-16T10:29:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T14:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=259"},"modified":"2005-01-16T10:29:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T14:29:56","slug":"teaching-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Teaching models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the New York Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/16\/education\/edlife\/EDTECH.html?ei=5088&#038;en=0980bc5589901882&#038;ex=1263618000&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">an article by Richard Panek on new teaching models<\/a>, primarily the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.center.rpi.edu\/PewGrant.html\">Program in Course Redesign<\/a> at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute&#8217;s Center for Academic Transformation.  I haven&#8217;t seen the reports at all (something else to do in my copious free time!), but the article jibes with my sense of teaching:  jiggling academic routines a bit can help dramatically, but entirely online experiences risk high attrition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOf course, I say this at the start of a semester with an entirely online class.  After my last experience a few years ago, I&#8217;m spending a lot of effort with the &#8220;soft&#8221; part of the course&#151;encouraging students separate from the academic content, setting up opportunities for them to engage in the conversational parts of an in-person course that allow repetition of key information in different formats and times.  I&#8217;m also trying to have a bit of fun with different things in online lectures (now that most students have much more ready access to broadband and I have tools on my laptop that are sufficient for most things).  So the first-unit lecture has a takeoff from the scrolling-text start of the <cite>Star Wars<\/cite> movies, and another will involve philosopher-puppets.  But I&#8217;m not sure that quite counts in what this redesigning-coursework project is doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, the New York Times has an article by Richard Panek on new teaching models, primarily the Program in Course Redesign at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute&#8217;s Center for Academic Transformation. I haven&#8217;t seen the reports at all (something else to do in my copious free time!), but the article jibes with my sense of teaching: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-4b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}