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about good practices and sound policies that accelerate the effective adoption and use of technologies in teaching and learning.
Conversations with...
Interviews Featuring:
- Promising practices.
- Emerging policy issues.
- People who challenge our thinking.
An old television crime drama always ended with the line: "There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and this has been one of them." The steady growth in e-learning, distance learning, and hybrid learning in higher education makes us think that we will soon have more than eight million tales to tell. While the television stories focused on mystery and mayhem, "Conversations with..." seeks to inform and inspire you. And, who knows, we may find some of our own mystery and mayhem along the way.
The Latest Conversations with...
Vernon Smith
Rio Salado College
WOW Award recipient succeed in tackling student plagiarism.
The Peer-to-Peer Plagiarism Detector is a home-grown tool that compares student writings with those submitted in previous sections or semesters. Possible infractions are flagged.
Allen Lind and Sandra Cook
KCTCS Online - Learn on Demand
WOW Award recipient offers modular, competency-based, open-entry learning.
Fitting the time constraints experienced by working adults, Learn on Demand courses are offered in less-than-one-credit modules that are open-enrollment, textbook-free, and competency-based.
Recent Conversations
- Barbara Beno, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for community and Junior Colleges, "Regional Accreditation: Changing Roles and the Impact on E-learning"
- Salvador Mora, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "UNLV's 'Concierge' Helps Adults Navigate Re-entry into College".
- Mark David Milliron, Bill & Menlinda Gates Foundation, "Using Action Analytics to Improve Student Outcomes. Now!"
- Belle Wheelan, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and Chair of the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions, "Academic Integrity, Credit Hours, and Federal Regulations."
- Susan Patrick, iNACOL The International Association for K-12 Learning, Online Learning: "Key to Addressing Systemic Problems in K-12 Education."
- Kim Pearce, Capella University, "Capitalizing on Course Assessments at the Institutional Level."
