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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

9 Tips To Apply Adult Learning Theory to eLearning - eLearning Industry - 0 views

  • While one adult learner may be well versed on how to search for resources online, another may have very little experience using the Internet.
  • Survey your audience beforehand to determine any technical knowledge limitations they may have, as well as to assess their education levels.
  • As we get older, we tend to gravitate more toward learning experiences that offer some sort of social development benefit.
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  • Create activities that encourage adult learners to use sites like LinkedIn and Google Plus as invaluable tools. This can help them to not only build their social network, but collaborate with those who share the same interests.
  • However, mature learners prefer to engage in eLearning experiences that help them to solve problems they encounter on a regular basis (in the here-and-now, rather than the future).
  • Motivation is key with adult learners. As such, you will need to motivate them to learn by offering them a reason for every eLearning activity, assessment, or eLearning module they'll need to complete.
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    nice article
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Trump's Affirmative-Action Rollback: A Promise Kept - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Since his inauguration, the Justice Department has reversed the previous administration’s efforts to uphold voting rights, served as an impediment to police reform, and weighed in against same-sex rights. It’s an agenda breathtaking in its scope.
  • Many Trump supporters believe themselves to be losing their country, something that leads them to prefer a social milieu more consistent with days gone by — one in which primarily white, middle- and upper-class, heterosexual, native-born men reigned supreme.
  • Moreover, in 2016, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court ruled that for the sake of diversity, race can be one of many criteria used by a college as part of a more holistic means of evaluating applicants.
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    roll back on affirmative action practices
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Don't Blame Tenured Academics for the Adjunct Crisis - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    beautiful brief assessment of impact of losses in workplace and how they negatively affect earnings, job security, & retirement
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

'The Great Shame of Our Profession' - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    great article by Kevin Birmingham, a literary criticism award winner, the first ever non-tenured faculty member to win it, on how adjunct crisis is furthered by status quo university systems that value everything but classroom teaching.
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