As announced earlier this fall by Provost Brian Schmisek, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota is in the process of evaluating and recommending a single Learning Management System (LMS) to help create a consistent and modern teaching and learning experience for all our students.
Are you interested in learning Blackboard, but don’t have time to attend a workshop? Then consider “Blackboard Essentials” a self-paced tutorial that teaches you the top 10 Blackboard skills: 1) posting documents 2) using the assignment tool…
Join us November 7th at noon in Cotter Café for the next Faculty PubTalk: Chris Michener’s “A Life of Lies”.
Saint Marys’ mission states that we prepare students for lives of ethical service and leadership, and in the Leadership PLC the last few semesters, Dr. Scott Sorvaag has been guiding us in thinking about how we use and interpret leadership in higher education. (One of his continual reminders is that leadership is a form of energy — hence the picture for this post.) As part of our PLC, we reviewed some offerings by the International Leadership Association, including this list of Leadership Activities one can include in virtually any class.
Whenever I advise someone on assessment, I always start with the question, “What do you want to know?” The same question makes a lot of sense when thinking about course evaluations and midterm evaluations. While most instructors don’t have control over final course evaluations (I suppose the idea is that the questions asked are what administrators want to know), we by and large do have control over the questions we ask on midterm evaluations. Richard Talbert, chair of mathematics at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, has an elaborate system for tracking student perceptions over a whole course, but the questions he uses would be great for any kind of mid-course check-up. The statements he asks students to reflect on are…
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