Posts Tagged ‘Online Classes’
¿Cómo se dice “D2L”? »
Huge step forward for online education at UNC-Chapel Hill: After several years of experimenting with “hybrid” Spanish courses that mix online and classroom instruction, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has decided to begin conducting its introductory Spanish course exclusively on the Web. Spanish 101, which had featured [...]
March of the Modules »
The first step towards module-based General Education (which I wrote about at length here), will be implemented in the field of "information literacy": One of the first casualties of the impending budget cuts will be a face-to-face instructional program meant to teach English 101 and 102 students how to navigate the library, Stoffle said. Instead, [...]
A Galaxy of Modules »
Way back at the last Senate meeting, the Senate (and yours truly) was unexpectedly exposed to a bizarre new plan for general education (in case you've forgotten the details, the outline of the plan can be found here). I promised to write more about the plan in the future, because the discussion brought up much broader issues; why, for instance, do [...]