MITC-Sponsored Pilot of CHEF at Earlham College
Background of CMS at Earlham
The Courses:
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Two "Living and Learning in Community" classes of ~20
students each
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Senior Seminar in Management of ~10 students
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**Cell Physiology Lecture/Lab Course of ~32 students, Student
results will be from these students only
Points of Discussion
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Faculty who have no experience will likely use CMS for just that—management
and not pedagogical reasons at first...
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As our faculty learned CHEF they have started pushing it to perform
pedagogically useful acts, still… more comprehensive test of CHEF
would need to include more seasoned CMS users—otherwise end up with
results that look like any CMS will do...
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Many faculty have no real sense of the power of more sophisticated
tools (like a robust quizzing function or electronic portfolios etc)...
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