Blogging, twitter and linked in are all important parts of my personal learning network. I haven’t visited that part of my professional development here for a while and I feel its time to address that again. In essence this post is to say ..”here is why I blog, tweet, and self reflect. A short while [...]
My educational focus, at least professionally always seems to take some interesting twists and turns..I think that is what has contributed to my somewhat sporadic postings of late. If you have seen my other blog www.cathylanderson.blogspot.com you may be aware that I returned from an almost two weeks away as I traveled to China. Check [...]
There are many factors to be considered in the strategic planning process of a higher education institution. One of the fine books I have that is somewhat related to this process is Continuous Quality Improvement in Higher Education by John Robert Dew. There are several terms that are applied to key performance indicators, Baldridge calls [...]
I have been reviewing how best to strategic plan for higher education. I have been involved in this process before at different places where I worked and planning is usually just second nature, an expectation if you will if you work as a manager, which I have for the last 15 years or so of my career.
As I listened to George Siemens and Stephen Downes discuss how they defined Connectivism, as a learning theory within their respective frames of reference, I started to consider how I would define it, what my frame of reference would be, even though some time and a lot of other things have occurred since my dissertation [...]