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What You Will Learn
Conversations
From theory to practice. You will learn how to find the current, relevant, professional conversations on the web in your chosen field: to step up and out of “book learning” as if you were about to leave the HWR and walk into your first job and join the conversation you will find there.
Extending your professional circles. You will learn how to join them by presenting your work and soliciting comments in ever-increasing circles, extending from your small group to others, in this class and other classes, and eventually, including the professionals out in the world.
Developing a rich rhetorical toolkit. You will learn how differently you might present your research, solicit and offer comments, and engage different kinds of professional, web-based conversations.
Target Language
You will learn how to find your target language, including the peculiar ways professionals in your field discover, explore, and manage knowledge.
Methods. You will learn how to report on what you find in a systematic, sophisticated way, including, the use of report structures, analytical and comparative frameworks, and the presentation of your findings as options designed to support collective, problem-solving conversations.
You will learn how to keep track of what you learn and integrate your learning into your speaking and writing. Read more
Current Articles
- About
- In outline, the project design is as follows: Foundation. As outlined on the Learning website, this project is based on the disciplinary standards presented in the Carnegie Commission study, Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession, including the categories Practical Reasoning, Analytical Thinking, Multiple Framing, and The Reflective Exploration of Meaning. In the next semester I [...] Read more – ‘About’.
- Evaluation
- The evaluation rubric outlined below includes many of the performance indicators I use to guide instruction and final evaluation. It aims to be relevant, comprehensive, transparent, and fair. It is informed by such work as the NCTE-WPA White Paper on Writing Assessment in Colleges and Universities and the advice of my colleague Marcus Birkenkrahe. The current version in [...] Read more – ‘Evaluation’.
- Learning
- My references for higher-level advice on class design include: Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession Practical Reasoning - Draws on knowledge / skills to engage the world concretely - Self-conscious/justified choice of action in context. - Judgment as professional and citizen. Analytical Thinking - Abstracts from particular experience to produce formal, general [...] Read more – ‘Learning’.
- Lessons
- … Learned Teamwork Students organized in teams identify and respect diversity and topics in common, build their website together and post on schedule, and comment critically and supportively on each other’s work. Well-managed teams address problems of governance, direction, and freeloading. Teams often appreciate the opportunity to learn from each other. Week-in-Review Group mind maps [...] Read more – ‘Lessons’.