Allison Rossett

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“Get some coffee and get rid of your guns.”

Allison Rossett

Tweet Guest blogger Jim Marshall could tell this wasn’t going to be your typical training class– not with that segue to a coffee break. Here’s what Jim wrote about his experience observing a class with 22 sworn peace officers from municipal, state and federal agencies.

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My first MOOC

Allison Rossett

First, the positives: I took a course from the world-class University of Edinburgh—and I took it for free. I did not feel as close to my peers as I have felt in other classes. While the instructors provided feedback criteria, they did no monitoring at all. The feedback disappointed. In part, it’s my job.

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Cal State Online Plays Small Ball

Allison Rossett

” What about the cost of online classes? And if worried about short shrift for campus and student life, there is a vow to deliver “world class student services” and consideration of ways to include “place” in online instruction, thus leveraging campus infrastructure. .” Does such a list exist?

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Whither higher education? To the opera!

Allison Rossett

There we were, just down from the food court, and enjoying a front row seat to world-class voices. Do you want to take a class with local Professor X or Nobel Prize Winner Y? It isn’t easy to pull off such experiences for several classes over the length of a sixteen week semester. My first movie opera cost $22.

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My daughter, poster child for 21st Century learning

Allison Rossett

My best friend would email me after every class, telling me my assignments. I couldn’t allow myself be behind by two weeks, besides when your alone and bored in an unfamiliar place, you begin to miss school, even the class work. I would set up my laptop and go straight to my school email.

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My daughter, poster child for 21st Century learning

Allison Rossett

My best friend would email me after every class, telling me my assignments. I couldn’t allow myself be behind by two weeks, besides when your alone and bored in an unfamiliar place, you begin to miss school, even the class work. I would set up my laptop and go straight to my school email.

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Deloitte University— What were they thinking?

Allison Rossett

I also worked at the Merrill Lynch retreat center, originally created to house their development efforts and converted to provide New Jersey conference space to one and all. Our tour joined a class with two leaders and 50 participants clustered around tables, facing every whichaway. Chefs in tall white hats carved roast beef.

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