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Musings from an Amateur: August 2014
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, August 8, 2014. Three BYU images that made me cringe (and laugh) this week. Image #1: The Presidential Inauguration Invitation (Are there storms ahead for BYU? On September 9th, Kevin Worthen. Will be inaugurated as the 13th president of BYU. I didn't notice it at first, but the tone of the cover raises some funny (if not alarming) questions about the next few years at BYU: Is there a storm brewing?
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Musings from an Amateur: The Power of Productive Time Off: What would a sabbatical for undergraduate students look like?
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, July 18, 2014. The Power of Productive Time Off: What would a sabbatical for undergraduate students look like? I have a confession - I'm really bad at relaxing, taking breaks, going on vacation, or anything else that means. In which he argues for the value of extended periods of time off. Watching the talk did two things: (1) made me feel guilty for not being better at taking time off and (2) made ...
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Musings from an Amateur: Three BYU images that made me cringe (and laugh) this week
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, August 8, 2014. Three BYU images that made me cringe (and laugh) this week. Image #1: The Presidential Inauguration Invitation (Are there storms ahead for BYU? On September 9th, Kevin Worthen. Will be inaugurated as the 13th president of BYU. I didn't notice it at first, but the tone of the cover raises some funny (if not alarming) questions about the next few years at BYU: Is there a storm brewing?
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Musings from an Amateur: General Education & the Problem of Fragmentation
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, April 29, 2011. General Education and the Problem of Fragmentation. Posted by Bryce Bunting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Im a doctoral student in the department of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. I am also the Associate Director of first-year Mentoring at BYU. . View my complete profile. John N. Gardner Institute Blog. What problems does...
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Musings from an Amateur: March 2014
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, March 28, 2014. A potential game changer for college sports: Unionized athletes. Kain Colter, the outgoing quarterback at Northerwestern. Yesterday, Michael Tarm. Of the Associated Press reported on the National Labor Relations Board's ruling. That football players at. At the core of the decision was the question of whether football players at Northwestern qualify as "employees" of the university?
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Musings from an Amateur: The danger of eclecticism in learning (or, an argument for the virtue of syncretic learning)
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, May 23, 2014. The danger of eclecticism in learning (or, an argument for the virtue of syncretic learning). This past week's speech was given by John Lamb. But, there was one aspect of Lamb's remarks that I think is potentially problematic, and that represents a more general problem in higher education. Toward the end of the talk, Lamb told students:. Emphasis added) in your learning. Like many oth...
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Musings from an Amateur: February 2014
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, February 28, 2014. Is Higher Education Rehabilitative? Read: Should inmates receive a college education? This morning, Inside Higher Ed. Reported on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. S plan to provide the option of a college education to inmates in about 10 of New York's state prisons. As well as the state of Indiana's long-running case study. Or, in this case, rehabilitative. The assumption made by ...
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mer: April 2011
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011. You may now address me as Master. That's right. I did it. The MA is in the bag. (Thanks to Ananda for the picture! Now, on to the next big thing: holding and playing with these two adorable little girls every day for the next month. I know you're jealous. California, here I come. Monday, April 18, 2011. My new favorite website. Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Today was the last day of classes at BYU (my last last day of classes as a student here! BYU and will miss being a student on t...
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Musings from an Amateur: December 2013
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, December 6, 2013. Access . . . to what? Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit two fairly unique educational institutions in the Wasatch County access. In preparation for a more intensive two-day conversation that will be held in January. School District as part of my involvement with BYU's partnership with the District. The purpose of the day was to provide raise issues of. The take home for me ...
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Musings from an Amateur: New Student Orientation as an "Inoculation" for the realities of the college experience
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Musings from an Amateur. My thoughts on various issues of higher education, teaching, and learning. Friday, July 11, 2014. New Student Orientation as an "Inoculation" for the realities of the college experience. As I've argued before on this blog. Student affairs and higher education professionals are often overly. In their most recent book, Decisive. Describe the idea of the "realistic job preview" and its value in combating the problem of employee turnover and hiring mismatches. The idea behind thi...