The National Teaching & Learning Forum

COMPLIMENTARY ARTICLE:
Laura Gibbs–Online Course Lady
James Rhem, Executive Editor
From her back porch in North Carolina, passionate classicist Laura Gibbs gives focused individual attention to each of her 90-some students back in Oklahoma.

PRAXIS: The Skills Grid
Laure Paquette of Lakehead University in Canada has found a powerful technique that impels students to connect the dots in their learning and bridge the gulf to the world beyond college.

ESSAY: Coaching and Teaching
A lifetime of being picked last on the playground and a powerful essay in the New Yorker provoke the editor into fresh thoughts on the intimacy of learning.

TECHPED: Designing Technology
and Courses for People
Michael L. Rodgers, Southeast Missouri State
University
In short, how would Steve Jobs have done it? The legendary computer innovator made computing about our goals, not the machine’s demands. Shouldn’t courses online or off be as empowering?

AD REM . . .: All the World (Including the Classroom) Is a Stage
Marilla Svinicki, University of Texas-Austin
Some faculty get all huffy at the thought that they are in any way “performers.” What we know about the psychology of learning shows they shouldn’t. “Oh, I see . . .” means that somewhere there’s been a good performance.

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