Maryville College: Combining Forces in Students’ Career Preparation
Q: What are your college’s goals for participating in the Consortium? A: Teaching is the highest priority category in faculty evaluations at Maryville College. The educational goals of our Core Curriculum focus on “cultivation of transformative habits of mind” and development of “capacity for critical, creative dispositions.” ACUE’s active learning and higher order thinking approaches […]
Connecting With Online Students Midsemester Using YouTube, Reflective Self-Evaluations, and DAPPS Goal-Setting Techniques
By Amy Clark During the summer semester, I reached out to learners across my online courses by creating a 5-minute YouTube video encouraging them to communicate with me, which I embedded in directions for a self-reflective, goal-oriented extra credit activity based on the DAPPS model. Per Downing (2011), DAPPS is an acronym for dated, achievable, […]
