Bruce Herbert's blog

A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 2:01pm

Want to see evidence that the future of education will be different because of technology (whether you want it to be or not)?  Watch this youtube video of a 1 year old using an iPad and magazines.

Revolution or Evolution? Social Technologies and Change in Higher Education

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 7:54am

Our own Derek Bruff (Vanderbilt) writes about the issues and barriers for faculty to start teaching with technology in today's Chronicle of Higher Education.

Click here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/revolution-or-evolution-social-technologies-and-change-in-higher-education/29304?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

 

Does The Quality of Faculty Instruction Matter?

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 5:20pm

A new study of the impact of Faculty teraching quality on student learning finds that professors who rate highly among students tend to teach students less. Professors who teach students more tend to get bad ratings from their students -- who, presumably, would just as soon get high grades for minimal effort. Read More »

Grading classroom participation

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 6:41am

If you want to know what students do in a class, ask to see the grading scheme.  In most cases, assessment drives learning.  The Chronicle has a nice article by Brian Croxall today on suggestions on how to grade classroom participation.  Click here to read the entire article.

Analogous Reasoning and Conceptual Model Development of Complex Earth System: A TAR Project

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 8:31am

Bruce Herbert, Professor of Geology and his graduate students, Nathan Gardiner and Jayme Foster, presented early results from their TAMU-CIRTL Teaching as Research project at a special NSF-funded workshop entitled Developing Student Understanding of Complex Systems in the Geosciences. Read More »

Similarities and Differences: Our Students Learn From Both

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 8:19am

An interesting "Learning through Diversity (LtD) Story By Rochelle Spencer in the Chronicle of Higher Education (password protected) Read More »

TAR concept described in National Academy of Sciences Paper

Submitted by DrBruceHerbert on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 2:50pm

I am attending a teaching and learning workshop in the geosciences focused on learning about complex systems.  One of the presenters, Bruce Grant (Departments of Biology and Environmental Science, Widener University), shared his use of teaching as research to guide his own craft on this challenging learning issue.

Bruce recently completed a special report to the National Academy of Sciences report which is useful. Read More »

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