Enforcing Independence
Well, this week has been particularly crazy, with a couple of days of snow making things pile up at work, and with a presentation this past Friday on international education at NERCOMP, it means that I've been behind a bit (compared to where I thought I would be) on blogging for #rhizo14. I have been keeping track of the facebook discussions, so I think this week I'm consolidating both original post and blending them with things that others have written. The question of the week (or rather, the prompt of the week) was: Explore a model of enforced independence. How do we create a learning environment where people must be responsible? How do we assure ourselves that learners will self-assess and self-remediate? The first thing that came to mind actually comes, second hand, from former classmates taking a course on Group Dynamics (a course that I never took during my graduate studies with this particular faculty member). The story goes like this: First da...