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Less Is More — Or At Least Just Enough
I’m once again teaching the comparative politics of Asia. When I first arrived at my current university, the course in question was limited to East Asia — China, Japan, and the Koreas. I had to strip out past content on … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics
Tagged China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, South Asia, Southeast Asia
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Student Teaching
I’ve got one of my favorite subjects coming up next semester — comparative politics of Asia — and I’m going to experiment with MIT’s Visualizing Cultures (VC) curriculum. My goals are to introduce students to the scholarly interpretation of visual source … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Getting Them to Read, Group Collaboration, Presentations, Projects, Skills, Visual Media
Tagged Asia, China, India, Japan, MIT, Visualizing Cultures
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More Thoughts on Modular Course Architecture
My spring semester is over. Undergraduate students have completed an anonymous evaluation of my comparative politics course, in which I experimented with modular architecture. In this course, students chose one of five different themes to focus on for the semester — … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Group Collaboration
Tagged modular architecture
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Rocket Pitch
I’ve decided to use an exercise that I witnessed at the NEGMA conference on innovation – the rocket pitch. At the conference, competitors for venture capital had three minutes each to sell their ideas to the audience, who voted for their favorites … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Exercises
Tagged competition, money, Monopoly, NEGMA, presentations
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Presentations in the Inverted Classroom
Interesting that the subject of student presentations has come up. Despite providing students with detailed instructions, exemplars, and advice, presentations were usually so excruciating that I simply stopped making them part of my courses. This semester I’ve reintroduced them in … Continue reading
Pain: The Ultimate Teacher
My father, a former drill instructor in the USMC, once told me that he’d stomp on a recruit’s foot to teach him right from left — “your right foot is the one that hurts.” Last night in an aikido class … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Exercises, Feedback & Reflection, Group Collaboration
Tagged exam, Reflection
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Connections Exercise: the answers
As promised, below are the answers, in order, to the connections exercise that I described in my previous post. The exercise was a big hit in class even though no one correctly identified how all ten items related to one … Continue reading
From the mouths of babies (story books)…
Having finally been forced out of our Greek property so it can be sold off to help sort out the whole debt crisis thing, I’m back in the UK, enjoying the fine weather here. As part of the long trip … Continue reading
