Entries from February 2008

February 12, 2008

Knowledge

Last week, I was going through John Biggs’s book in quality learning and I came across a section that I have gone over before but I obviously wasn’t ready to absorb it yet. Biggs spoke about Alignment of the teaching method and from a good teaching system comes the alignment of teaching methods, assessment [...]

February 1, 2008

The Boyer Commision Report

Through my past scrambling of information for the conference abstract I came upon a report concerning the needed changes in undergraduate education. The Boyer Commission, are a group of scientists, educators and designers who have come together to offer some insightful methods to strengthen the quality of university learning by stressing on the re-development and [...]

February 1, 2008

Troubles: New Views Abstract

As I mentioned in my last post since last week I have been desperately struggling to write a mere 400 words of positioning statement for the New Views 2 conference. Well, It’s done and thankfully so. I did learn a lot though from going through the process. Early on in the process I was trying [...]