Allison Rossett

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How We Helped Faculty Move Their Courses Online

Allison Rossett

I’ve been working with university faculty on teaching, learning and technology for almost ten years. During much of that time, I led a well-funded program in which we incentivized faculty to experiment with technologies to improve teaching and learning. Here is her story. The program had impact. This is not business as usual.

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How We Helped Faculty Move Courses Online

Allison Rossett

I’ve been working with university faculty on teaching, learning and technology for almost ten years. During much of that time, I led a well-funded program in which we incentivized faculty to experiment with technologies to improve teaching and learning. Here is her story. The program had impact. This is not business as usual.

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Deloitte University— What were they thinking?

Allison Rossett

Bickham talked about teaching from the middle of the room, about how multiple screens and projection systems enable that, assuring that none of the groups or individuals at the small tables are disadvantaged. After decades of teaching, I see risk. Will leaders continue to venture to Texas to teach and to learn when DU is old hat?

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Deloitte University— What were they thinking?

Allison Rossett

Bickham talked about teaching from the middle of the room, about how multiple screens and projection systems enable that, assuring that none of the groups or individuals at the small tables are disadvantaged. After decades of teaching, I see risk. Will leaders continue to venture to Texas to teach and to learn when DU is old hat?

Metrics 224
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Reflections on Two Decades and Three Degrees

Allison Rossett

A difficult professor teaches the classroom section and we learn about plate tectonics. Online courses are as different as the professors who teach them. When I teach, I hope my students will feel engaged, challenged, and cared about. Few professors turn to pop culture to engage us. The geology lab with maps and lots of rocks.

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I’m an educator who loves apps

Allison Rossett

Here is the story of how apps helped Aaron Ifland, a doctoral student, who attends two universities 118 miles apart, and teaches at a third. Apps on my mobile devices enable practice, a quick lesson, a conversation with a coach or team, or a reminder about how it is that I might think about something. Here is an example.

Education 111
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I’m an educator who loves apps

Allison Rossett

Here is the story of how apps helped Aaron Ifland, a doctoral student, who attends two universities 118 miles apart, and teaches at a third. Apps on my mobile devices enable practice, a quick lesson, a conversation with a coach or team, or a reminder about how it is that I might think about something. Here is an example.

Education 111