Blog for Business Educators and more folks, too

The Teaching Post blog by Harvard professor emeritus Jim Heskett is published by Harvard Business Publishing. Heskett presents ideas and techniques in keeping with his position in the Participant-Centered Learning seminars sponsored by the company.

Lots of publishers run blogs and this one certainly carries the company message. What is outstanding about the blog is the commentary it generates through readers' posts. Even the least-compelling (to me) blog title leads to contributions from readers that invariably interest me. Always a good read.

© 2009 Mary Bold, PhD, CFLE. Email contact: bold[AT]marybold.com. The content of this blog or related web sites created by Mary Bold (www.marybold.com, www.boldproductions.com, College Intern Blog) is not under any circumstances to be regarded as legal or professional advice. Bold is the co-author of Reflections: Preparing for your Practicum or Internship, geared to college interns in the child, education, and family fields. She is a consultant and speaker on assessment, distance learning, and technology.

Blogs for and about evaluators

Evaluator and Evaluation Blogs, a web page of the American Evaluation Association, lists web-logs (blogs) related to evaluation. The entries are helpful in carrying hyperlinks to the blogs as well as to Examples.

An entry includes the focus of the blog and also notes when the blog was created. A couple in the list were first published in 2004. Most, though, are from 2008. A couple of 2009 blogs are also listed. A less visible element is the "Updates in YEAR," which gives the number of new entries. A few are outstanding at 99 and 103.

© 2009 Mary Bold, PhD, CFLE. Email contact: bold[AT]marybold.com. The content of this blog or related web sites created by Mary Bold (www.marybold.com, www.boldproductions.com, College Intern Blog) is not under any circumstances to be regarded as legal or professional advice. Bold is the co-author of Reflections: Preparing for your Practicum or Internship, geared to college interns in the child, education, and family fields. She is a consultant and speaker on assessment, distance learning, and technology.

Principles for online course development

There are a number of referring email names that I always take time to follow up on. Claudine Schweber is one of them.

Claudine pointed readers on a Sloan-C listserv to an article about funding for new distance learning courses. Published by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington think tank, the report is called Educational Tools for the 21st Century. What I liked was the report's five principles for (online) course development:

1 - Develop courses to certification standards.

2 - Promote partnerships for the widest possible course adoptions.

3 - Use a common design architecture

4 - Develop both stand-alone and faculty-mediated courses.

5 - Provide for rigorous assessment of learning outcomes.

© 2009 Mary Bold, PhD, CFLE. Email contact: bold[AT]marybold.com. The content of this blog or related web sites created by Mary Bold (www.marybold.com, www.boldproductions.com, College Intern Blog) is not under any circumstances to be regarded as legal or professional advice. Bold is the co-author of Reflections: Preparing for your Practicum or Internship, geared to college interns in the child, education, and family fields. She is a consultant and speaker on assessment, distance learning, and technology.