Tag Archives: Education reform

BlogPost Progress Report: peer assessment

By alex | Published: 5/9/2012
Over the last four semesters, beginning in the spring of 2011, I have been using a badge system that allows for peer review and the awarding of badges that can then be shared on the open badge infrastructure. As with many of my experiments with educational technologies, I figured the best way to learn what […]
Posted in Teaching, Technology | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Rank Teacher Ranking

By alex | Published: 2/24/2012
There has been a little discussion on an informal email list at my university about the Op-Ed by Bill Gates in the New York Times that argues against public rankings of teachers. It’s a position that in some ways constrains the Gates Foundation’s seeming interest in quantifying teaching performance. It led to questions we have […]
Posted in Teaching | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Retreating on the Grades

By alex | Published: 8/21/2011
Heading into a new semester and assembling the syllabi (well, one–the other, once again this term, is in the hands of the students), I’ve decided to give up on my short-lived “no grades” policy. At least nominally. What happened? Well, at least pedagogically, I was fine with it. To recap, I was concerned that students […]
Posted in Teaching | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments