Simon Walker is the head of the Education Development Unit (EDU) at the University of Greenwich and he had just showed us a room that looked to me like I have always imagined how the Sistine chapel would look in Rome, but we were in London and it was raining. Nothing new about that but Simon […]
Uni VIsits
A Gutenberg Experience
In 1979 my wife an I felt we should start a printing business, this we believed, was something we should do to make a difference. Our journey is quite a story. We began printing for churcohes and Christian organizations. For 18 years the story of the invention of moveable type and Gutenburg’s printing press and […]
The Cross Walk … a practicum with a diffference
I saw the six foot cross as we walked into Carol Freeman’s office. I couldn’t help but comment. As Carol, the Dean of Student Mentoring at Bethany International began to explain how it is used in the teaching and learning at the college, I immediately had flashbacks to 1970 and my Army training in Australia. […]
Student Mentoring Unpacked
Can we do this using elearning? One of the highlights of our visit to Bethany International was meeting Carol Freeman, Dean of Student Mentoring. Carol explained the school’s mentoring program that all students participate in as they move through their undergraduate experience. It’s really intense as you will hear in the podcast episode. The result is […]
High touch high teach high learn
We were introduced to Tran in the hallway of California Baptist University’s new CBU Online Division. He guided us into his office. Richard and I had the same response simultaneously “Whoa nice office!” … it was a nerd reaction as Tran has at least five monitors around the corner of his desk space and it […]
Food for the Soul … believe it!
Our visit to Azusa Pacific University started with some very productive and intense meetings where we discussed all things elearning, graduate attributes and student experience. We were engaged (and always running overtime I might add) right up to and during lunch. Dr Andrea McAleenan the Special Advisor to the President of APU and our host, […]
The student experience takes work – lots of it!
However our time with Terry Franson Senior Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California sure did prove this work is worth it. I was particularly happy we could talk over lunch because of the emphasis on the student experience we have at the University of Adelaide […]
H.E. … It’s in the Genes for Olivet and Bethany
My host was dropping me off at the Admin building at Olivet University in Scotts Valley just south of San Francisco CA. Our car turned into a village like community snuggled in the countryside with bush (that’s Australian) all around. We approached the sign and it was hard to distinguish what was university and what […]