Technology and Tutoring
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an interesting article ($) earlier this week about the use of online graders located in other countries both to ease the burden of scoring papers for professors...
View ArticleThe Course of Innovation
It’s rough out there for colleges these days. Budgets are down, enrollments are up, and the population they need to educate is increasingly composed of low-income or academically under-prepared...
View ArticleA Day at Polya: Lecture
It’s a few minutes after nine and Kirk Trigsted has a couple of minutes before he has to go and teach his introductory math section before 200 students at the University of Idaho. But rather than...
View ArticleA Day at Polya: Inside the Lab
If you were to take a quick peek at the University of Idaho’s Polya Mathematics Center, it would probably look more or less like any other computer lab. It’s arranged mostly into two rooms–one that...
View ArticleThe CC Summit
This afternoon, the White House convened the first Community College Summit. (If you’re more cynical, then perhaps a better name for it would be the Conrad Consolation Summit since the gathering was...
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Will What Happens in Vegas Stay in Vegas?
Copyright lasvegastvshow.net This week my colleague Rachel and I are in Vegas. Not on vacation, but at the US Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid Conference. Yes, you read correctly. Vegas....
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