Posted on Monday September 16, 2019It may seem surprising that students often struggle in online courses. After all, our students are growing up in an online environment. However, succeeding in online learning requires specific skills not developed through general internet use. As I prepared the orientation unit for Preparing for College and Career, a free online course for Adventist high … Continued
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Posted on Thursday September 12, 2019Every year, at a school located in Melbourne’s east, some 295 students participate in annual Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT), which assess their progress in Reading, Vocabulary and Spelling, Mathematics, Grammar and Punctuation. Staff saw little of the resultant data, so were unable to observe trends or analyse their students’ results. Following the 2017 test results, … Continued
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Posted on Wednesday September 11, 2019A Dream Come True! From the Institute for Faith Integration at Babcock University comes a brand new journal. As Constance C. Nwosu describes in her editorial, the mission of the International Journal for Faith Integration is “to promote faith integration for the holistic development of human capacity.” This faith integration goes beyond learning, reaching to all service … Continued
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Posted on Monday September 09, 2019Like most Seventh-day Adventist history professors, I did my graduate work at a non-Adventist institution. In my case, I studied at Auburn University, a public land-grant university in Alabama that long ago forgot its Methodist roots and is now thoroughly secular. When I started teaching history at Pacific Union College a year ago, I tried … Continued
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