Category Archives: PFP13S

More about PBL

“You can forget facts but you can not forget  understanding”                                              ~Professor Eric Mazur As Professor Mazur said : “it is about understanding”. PBL It is about understanding and enhancing skills and it also brings another dimension to the teaching/learning environment, besides challenging the traditional way of teaching/learning , it increase the amount of work […] Continue reading

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Team-Based Learning: Addressing “fairness” in the grading process

For anyone who’s ever been assigned to a project team, there’s always the nagging question, “will everyone pull their weight?”  Invariably, it seems that there are one or two who don’t.  The responsibility for bringing the team grade across the … Continue reading Continue reading

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International Higher Education

Higher Education is different in different countries, religion, gender, economic position and political ideologies play a role and determine who gets it ,  and where – when education is given. In El Salvador, higher education is public (small % of population get access) and private (only people that can afford it have access to it). […] Continue reading

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PBL- When the theory meets the practice.

PBL offers a new educational environment and helps to decrease the boredom, but still it can create certain uncertainty, on one hand students might think that PBL looks like a lot of work  and on the other hand the educators might find that even thought PBL is a very innovated way of teaching, still they […] Continue reading

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Mine, Your and Other English-es

I was browsing through the multi-lingual world of internet, looking for the ‘correct way’ of pronouncing some English language words. What ‘I’ (believe that I) found is the following:Basically, there are two ways of pronouncing most English words ‘corr… Continue reading

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Mine, Your and Other English-es

I was browsing through the multi-lingual world of internet, looking for the ‘correct way’ of pronouncing some English language words. What ‘I’ (believe that I) found is the following:Basically, there are two ways of pronouncing most English words ‘corr… Continue reading

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Connections Conference

Yesterday and today I attended the “connections” conference at the Inn at VT & Skelton Conference Center. To be completely honest, conference attendance (of at least 2 sessions) was required in a class I am taking for the Future Professoriate … Continue reading Continue reading

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Sequestration: Perspective from a former Fed senior analyst and manager

As of last Friday, March 1, we are now experiencing “fiscal sequestration”.  For most of us, this isn’t an intuitively obvious term.  The discussion around it isn’t intuitively obvious either. I thought I’d take a few minutes to offer some … Continue reading Continue reading

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Students being globalized or Americanized?

The article by Braskamp titled “Developing Global Citizens” brought points that I was able to resonate with; however, what impacted me most was his brief questioning of Americanization. That is, if rather than experiencing different cultures and traditions, are we are … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Tower of Babel

“The conventional wisdom of the Tower of Babel story is that the collapse was a misfortune… the weight of many languages that precipitated the tower’s failed architecture. That one monolithic language would have expedited the building and heaven… Continue reading

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