I'm breaking my summer blogging hiatus by reflecting on the class I taught during Spring quarter. It was mentally and emotionally overwhelming in a lot of ways and has taken some time to process, but I'd like to present the more organized thoughts I've had about the class here.

Helping students learn how to learn: That's what most educators strive for, and that's the goal of inquiry learning. That skill transfers to other academic subject areas and even to the workplace where employers have consistently said that they want creative, innovative and adaptive thinkers.

Assessing Reliability How to Judge the Reliability of Internet Information Students who are accustomed to doing research in libraries face new issues when they start doing research on the Internet. Before a book or journal appears in a university library, it has usually gone through a number of checks to make sure the information in it is reliable.

Costco University I model my proposed college after a law firm. Just as senior lawyers own the firm and delegate various administrative responsibilities, I would have a college where faculty own the institution, and administrators work for faculty, rather than vice versa.

In "Bioinformatics Algorithms - Part 1," UC San Diego computer science and engineering professor Pavel Pevzner and his graduate students are offering a course that incorporates a substantial research component for the first time. "To our knowledge, this is the first major online course that prominently features massive open online research, or MOOR, rather than just regular coursework" said Pevzner.

Paying Attention to the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli: How Video Games Can Change the Ways You Understand Teaching, Learning, and Knowledge Cristiane Sommer Damasceno Chocolate-Covered Broccoli - (Cristiane Sommer Damasceno, 2013) The rhetorician Richard A. Lanham defines attention as the "action that turns raw data into something humans can use" (qtd.

Nearly 50% of students today leave college without earning a degree. The data suggests students drop out from lack of funds, interest, mentorship, and real world relevance. Even at elite private universities where student completion rates soar to over 90%, everyone is in reform mode, trying to find the best education students need for the complex, fast-action webby world they are inheriting.