Creating Significant Learning Environments
As Jason Hiner points out, this sounds great but many (potentially most) people don’t do this. Why? Because its hard…because it requires a level of confidence and leadership in your hiring process that often isn’t there.
Hiner recommends:
To acquire lifelong learners necessitates more diligence in your hiring process. Rather than looking for deep niche experience, look for a variety of experience.
Math professor Robert Talbert decided to go as paperless as possible because:
Talbert provides a very good explanation of how he digitally grades two Calculus and one Communicating in Mathematics courses. While he uses some methods and software tools that could easily be replaced with simpler solutions the fact that he is exploring this option is exciting. I have been working almost exclusively digitally for several years now and once you start there is not turning back.
