Improving the Online Learning Experience for Students By Holly A. Bell (Note: This article was originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on 1 October 2012) I truly believe that most of my full-time, tenure-track colleagues would rather quit their jobs than teach an online course. And that’s a shame, since they are exactly …
We Need to Teach Collaboration for an Office-Less World By Holly A. Bell Cheating vs. Collaboration Earlier this month we heard about a cheating scandal at Harvard University in which students worked together on a take-home exam they were expected to complete independently. As a professor I have a couple of concerns with this. First, …
‘Teaching’ Ethics is Not as Easy as it Seems By Holly A. Bell The perpetual drone of news stories describing corporate scandals has lead to criticisms that business schools aren’t doing enough to teach ethics. This criticism is not surprising when you look at the self-interested microeconomic decision-making models we teach based on the rational …
Faculty are great at educating students–just keep them out of meetings. I still view higher education with a bit of an outsider’s lens as I spent the first 20+ years of my career in the “real world” of business. I’ve found higher ed. requires a sense of humor. Moving from a corporation to a university …
