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by bernoulli
May 18, 2011
Due to poor budgets over the past 10 years, like most schools we have been experiencing larger class sizes. Classes I used to teach with 25-30 students are now routinely 38-40. I taught one statistics class a year ago with 62 students. Note that we don't have any TAs or graders. What I noticed are the following: 1. I give more Scantron quizzes and ...See MoreDue to poor budgets over the past 10 years, like most schools we have been experiencing larger class sizes. Classes I used to teach with 25-30 students are now routinely 38-40. I taught one statistics class a year ago with 62 students. Note that we don't have any TAs or graders. What I noticed are the following: 1. I give more Scantron quizzes and tests. I don't feel comfortable grading so many quizzes or tests because of time and concerns over consistency. 2. I don't assign as many threaded discussions because I have to form discussion groups and then don't get around to monitoring them. 3. More stress just thinking about the number of students I'll be facing as I walk into class. 4. More problem students to deal with. 5. Perhaps a good thing, I post homework, quiz, and test solutions Bb sometime with narrated explanations. This saves time going over things in class. It does take time. 6. Not as excited about teaching anymore. 7. I quit giving out my home phone number to students. It was OK when I didn't get very many calls at home. 8. I don't hang around my office as much outside of office hours. 9. Some of the classrooms I have are really not suited to be used at capacity...difficult for students to see.
I am a heavy user of technology, but unfortunately the course I have developed to a very high degree as a hybrid course has not been assigned to me much in the last 2 years.
Anyone else want to chime in about this? I did attend a workshop about how to teach large classes. It was geared more toward how to manage the class during the class time. I learned a lot, but it still takes a lot of time.
by QuizMEOnline
May 20, 2011
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by Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2011)
May 28, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
*********************************************************** Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2011) October 3-5, 2011, Dublin, Ireland ([link removed]) ***********************************************************
Notification and Preliminary Call for Papers
The Ireland International Confer...See MoreCALL FOR PAPERS
*********************************************************** Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2011) October 3-5, 2011, Dublin, Ireland ([link removed]) ***********************************************************
Notification and Preliminary Call for Papers
The Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE) will be held from 3-5 of October, 2011 in Dublin. The IICE is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.
The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The IICE-2011 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation.
The topics in IICE-2011 include but are not confined to the following areas:
Academic Advising and Counselling Art Education Adult Education APD/Listening Acoustics in Education Environment Business Education Counsellor Education Curriculum, Research and Development Competitive Skills Continuing Education Distance Education Early Childhood Education Educational Administration Educational Foundations Educational Psychology Educational Technology Education Policy and Leadership Elementary Education E-Learning E-Manufacturing
ESL/TESL E-Society Geographical Education Geographic information systems Health Education Higher Education History Home Education Human Computer Interaction Human Resource Development Indigenous Education ICT Education Internet technologies Imaginative Education Kinesiology andLeisure Science K12 Language Education Mathematics Education Mobile Applications Multi
Important Dates
Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date June 15, 2011 Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date June 30, 2011 Proposal for Workshops May 25, 2011 Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection May 31, 2011 Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection June 25, 2011 Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection June 25, 2011 Camera Ready Paper Due July 10, 2011 Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants) July 31, 2011 Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors and Participants) July 31, 2011 - September 15, 2011 Conference Dates October 03-05, 2011
For more information please contact: [email removed].
by London International Conference on Education (LICE-2011)
May 28, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
*************************************************************** London International Conference on Education (LICE-2011) November 7-10, 2011, London, UK ([link removed]) ***************************************************************
The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refere...See MoreCALL FOR PAPERS
*************************************************************** London International Conference on Education (LICE-2011) November 7-10, 2011, London, UK ([link removed]) ***************************************************************
The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.
The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2011 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation.
The topics in LICE-2011 include but are not confined to the following areas:
Academic Advising and Counselling Art Education Adult Education APD/Listening Acoustics in Education Environment Business Education Counsellor Education Curriculum, Research and Development Competitive Skills Continuing Education Distance Education Early Childhood Education Educational Administration Educational Foundations Educational Psychology Educational Technology Education Policy and Leadership Elementary Education E-Learning E-Manufacturing
ESL/TESL E-Society Geographical Education Geographic information systems Health Education Higher Education History Home Education Human Computer Interaction Human Resource Development Indigenous Education ICT Education Internet technologies Imaginative Education Kinesiology andLeisure Science K12 Language Education Mathematics Education Mobile Applications Multi-Virtual Environment
Music Education Pedagogy Physical Education (PE) Reading Education Writing Education Religion and Education Studies Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Rural Education Science Education Secondary Education Second life Educators Social Studies Education Special Education Student Affairs Teacher Education Cross-disciplinary areas of Education Ubiquitous Computing Virtual Reality Wireless applications Other Areas of Education
Important dates
Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date May 01, 2011 Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date May 31, 2011 Proposal for Workshops June 5, 2011 Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection June 10, 2011 Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection May 15, 2011 Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection June 1, 2011 Camera Ready Paper Due June 20, 2011 Participant(s) Registration (Open) January 01, 2011 Early Bird Registration Deadline August 15, 2011 Late Bird Registration Deadline October 30, 2011 Conference Dates November 07-10, 2011
For more information please contact: [email removed].
by Charles Burrow
Jun 19, 2011
As an uneducated high school graduate, I still have many questions that are unanswerable through impersonal means of the internet, and text books. I want to learn specifics about very specific subjects, but I don't have the resources to take classes on the broader spectrum. Is there any way I can address experts in the fields I want to learn about ...See MoreAs an uneducated high school graduate, I still have many questions that are unanswerable through impersonal means of the internet, and text books. I want to learn specifics about very specific subjects, but I don't have the resources to take classes on the broader spectrum. Is there any way I can address experts in the fields I want to learn about without having to be mandated into a college or university? For instance, I currently want help on the subject of molecular biology, for no reason other than to know about molecular biology. Wikipedia only goes so far, I need an actual person to explain it. Is there any way to do this?
by SC Teacher No More
Jul 12, 2011
Would anyone have another recommendation for this situation?
DD is in her first semester as a transfer to our local 4- year university. Her current class is an internship and one assignment was to create a PowerPoint describing the internship. DD completed the PowerPoint and sent it to her professor before the deadline. The following week...See MoreWould anyone have another recommendation for this situation?
DD is in her first semester as a transfer to our local 4- year university. Her current class is an internship and one assignment was to create a PowerPoint describing the internship. DD completed the PowerPoint and sent it to her professor before the deadline. The following week, she finds two e-mail messages from him that state (1) He couldn't open her PowerPoint and she had 48 hours to re- submit and (2) Since she hadn't responded during the 48 hours he was docking her late points for the assignment. She didn't see his e-mail since she was working her internship, which has very long hours (10:00 AM until 11:00 PM being typical).
She immediately contacted him via e-mail (it was after 11:00 pm on a Friday night, thus no phone call to his office) and re-submitted her PowerPoint, but she had to use her Yahoo account since the e-mail server was down. Within two days he responds that he received her second submission and that it was "on point" but he was still docking her 12 points leaving her with a 48/60.
I encouraged her to write him and ask that he reconsider, explaining that she submitted the presentation before the deadline, she submitted the exact same presentation via her personal e-mail, and that she had only gone two days without checking her e-mail as she was participating in her internship. She had checked for a response Wednesday morning before leaving for her long days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) that week. She has been working some days as long as 12 hours as an event planning assistant, without pay, for this internship. The professor answers that it is her problem to fix her e-mail and that there is a lab at school open from 8-5 for students. I called (because my daughter is currently driving to a neighboring state for an assingment with her internship) and spoke with two IT representatives as the University who confirmed my belief that the e-mail situation is completely outside of our hands and even the university's hands, it would be a Microsoft or cable provider issue.
Ok, my first problem with this scenario is that he couldn't open her PowerPoint presentation. That seems to be a technical issue on his side. My second problem is that he doesn't understand that the e-mail is maintained by Microsoft and we have no control over it. By his own admission, this same problem occured with 10 other students.
Do I suggest DD try anything else? She will have to have this same professor (unless he retires) for her second required internship next summer. DD is so upset since she is really working hard to get a 3.5 GPA so she'll hopefully be eligible for some more schlarship money. What she receives currently is not quite enough to cover tuition and books, plus she has to pay her car insurance and obviously isn't making anything during her internship which will end just before the next semester begins.
Helpful advice would be appreciated.
by Professor Hardy Parkerson, J.D.
Jul 23, 2011
Whatever happened to classrooms? Now it's all done online. Whatever happened to classroom teachers? They used to be so fine.
Pay your fees, get your degrees Online, from Law to Med-i-cine. "But tell me, Doc, 'fore you do my surgery That you didn't get yours online!"
Did your school make the list? [link removed]
Have you incorporated more technology into your classroom? Is it working well or..?
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We live in a changing world and work in a changing profession given the changing times. I think this is all something we have to get used to at least for now and have to remember that we are fortunate to have jobs.
That said, my friends in England and England in general is a very pessimistic place - ...See More