Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Implementing the Seven Principles

for those of you who might have missed this years ago, let me call attention to the article by Arthur Chickering and Stephen Ehrmann, Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever (There are many versions available online if this link doesn't work). While pretty simple in theory, it is also clear that there is no mention in these principles of the word "technology," and that is the kicker. Because while you encourage all you want contacts and collaboration between students, if the technology (BB) does not allow that in a non-disruptive manner, your course is going nowhere.

1 comment:

Professor Charles Evans said...

Boy, this sentence was badly written: "Because while you encourage all you want contacts and collaboration between students, if the technology (BB) does not allow that in a non-disruptive manner, your course is going nowhere."
What I meant to say is that yes, it is important for you to encourage student collaboration and discussion; but, if your technology (BB) is too intrusive, then that collaboration is really not going to happen.