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Teaching the History of Academe from a 21 st Century Perspective: Website and Blog

Teaching the History of Academe from a 21 st Century Perspective: Website and Blog. Katherine Meyer & Dr. Joseph Cronin. SED AP 550: Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Higher Education . Mandatory course in the Masters in Higher Education Administration program

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Teaching the History of Academe from a 21 st Century Perspective: Website and Blog

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  1. Teaching the History of Academe from a 21st Century Perspective: Website and Blog Katherine Meyer &Dr. Joseph Cronin

  2. SED AP 550: Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Higher Education • Mandatory course in the Masters in Higher Education Administration program • Course was designed to introduce the major ideas and higher education innovations from ancient times to the present • To find the course website please Google “BU Joe Cronin” • What you will learn today is…

  3. How by using a website and blog, a series of dynamic guest speakers (not lecturers), and field trips: A history class, with such a dry title as to summon a yawn, became a vibrant learning environment.

  4. What we did • We met in the summer to plan • Katherine learned all about websites and blogs from Mia Bott • We cleaned up the site from the previous year • We added the new syllabus • We recruited students to take notes for the website, which helped other students who traveled for work or got sick stay up to date

  5. What’s on the website • Syllabus • Bibliographies • Class notes • Class handouts • Exemplary papers • Newspaper articles • Homework assignments • PowerPoint presentations by guest speakers

  6. What we added each week • Class notes by students uploaded as PDFs • News articles students emailed to us • Class handouts requested by students to help study for final exam • Homework assignments (e.g., watching a video online; reading articles by guest speakers)

  7. Truly interactive next steps • The blog portion of the class is not as utilized as it could be, which will be remedied in fall 2010. • In an effort to integrate the blog more, we will have students post online each week three questions they have after doing the required reading. • Then they will respond to at least two questions posed by their classmates. This will help stimulate an online discussion to accompany the in-class discussion. • Have students create their own blog as part of the course to document their learning of history through technology.

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