Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011 Not so irrelevant 015 Scott McLeod Copy a link to the article entitled http://Not%20so%20irrelevant%20015 Share Not so irrelevant 015 on Facebook Share Not so irrelevant 015 on Twitter (X) Share Not so irrelevant 015 on LinkedIn Five online resources worth checking out…“We need to be inspired. We need to be encouraged. We need to spend time doing things we love. We want to change the world. Is that too much to ask?“Iowa schools are focusing on penmanship. Really. Penmanship.Britt Watwood notes that “there was a note of fear that the ‘good old days’ were gone and that because of online learning, higher education was going to hell in a handbasket.” Be sure to also check out his white paper on online teaching.Step 1: Play with this sortable table of beginning and average teacher salaries by state.Step 2: Then get really depressed about teacher salaries by reading the PDF version of this book from the Economic Policy Institute.See also previous posts in this category!
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Starts With A Bang The idea that matter is mostly empty space is mostly wrong Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
Guest Thinkers Online instruction, stubborn resistance, and stupid faculty A two-part tale of higher education and online instruction… n “Students demand free beer too” n A May 29 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reads as follows: n […]