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Student Teaching II
My experiment with getting students to teach each other content using MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project is coming to a close. Though some teams’ classroom presentations have been better than others by being more interactive, overall I think the experiment has … Continue reading
Question Time II
A short update on my previous post. Students in my comparative politics course chose option one: Each team is required to ask at least two questions, with each question asked of a different team during its presentation. If a team … Continue reading
Live from the 2nd Annual Negma Conference @MIT Media Lab
I’m currently listening to social enterprise development project pitches by the ten finalists in Negma’s Impact Egypt competition at the MIT Media Lab. Three minute presentations, no slideshows, followed by an intense ten minute round of questioning from judges. Here are some questions … Continue reading
NEGMA Conference @MIT Media Lab March 23-24
Something of a response to Joe Jaeger’s post: He is not the only employer who wants college graduates to know how to research, evaluate risk, and solve problems; many companies find recent graduates to be deficient in these and other basic … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Chad Raymond, Problem solving
Tagged Egypt, Jaeger, Media Lab, MIT, NEGMA
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
The APSA Teaching and Learning Conference is only six weeks away. It will be held sunny Long Beach, California, so not much chance this time of people getting trapped in their hotels because of a blizzard. At the conference I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in and Simulations, Chad Raymond, International Relations
Tagged Long Beach, MIT, prisoner's dilemma, Statecraft
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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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Cheating at Harvard — Do Students Always Get What They Pay For?
Some of you may have heard about the cheating scandal at Harvard involving approximately 125 students in a spring 2012 class of Government 1310 – Introduction to Congress. The assistant professor teaching the course, Dr. Matthew Platt, noticed similarities in take-home exams … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Chad Raymond, Exam
Tagged Charles Stewart, cheat, Congress, Harvard, Matthew Platt, MIT
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How Soon Is Now? The End of the University As We Know It
The university as we know it is headed for extinction. Imagine the system of U.S. higher education in 1960 – universities were awash in government money because of the Cold War; enrollments were surging because of the GI bill and … Continue reading
