For this class at USM, we had to write 11 reflection papers.
Now that I’ve had the positive experience with Karen Day and the negative experience with Mark Hicks to set both ends of the USM/HRD “reflection” spectrum, I’m surprised Dr. Campbell considered these “reflective” by USM/HRD’s standards. This was my first semester at USM, and I interpreted “reflection” to mean “essay.”
I never got feedback other than my final grade, so I didn’t know until months later what equates to “reflection” in the USM/HRD manner. I don’t know what Dr. Campbell actually thought about my interpretation. That actually raises a question: Were my papers sufficiently reflective by her instructional standards, or did she grade my work by some separate measure?
Here are links to each paper in PDF format:
- Big Debt — Little Value? (transfer of credit)
- Ethics and Institutional Self-Regulation
- An Argument in Support of an Academic Advisor/Financial Aid Counselor Hybrid
- Campus Technology: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- “Purposeful ‘Handholding’ May Be Necessary” (doing whatever it takes to keep students on the path to degree completion)
- Agents for Change (design of learning spaces)
- Why “My Girls” Didn’t Succeed (barriers to non-trad students’ success in post-secondary education)
- Involving Colleges in Developing Future Leaders (observations on Earl Paul’s book, So You Want to Be a Leader? What Every College Student Should Know)
- Considering the Spirituality of Learning (comparison of Learning Reconsidered and Parker Palmer’s writings)
- Welcome to the “Dark Side” of Higher Education (instructors who aren’t trained in adult education principles)
- We’re Fast Approaching Critical Mass in Students’ Inability to Apply Critical Thinking
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