When I started college as a freshman engineering student, I knew I would have a little trouble with the transition from high school to college. What I didn’t know was that my main challenge would come from distractions. There’s a mall only five minutes from campus, and when my friends wanted to hang out there, […]
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The Ideal World
Our lives need support from others to gain success. The book, On Course, consists of numerous habits and ideas on how we can achieve the fullest potential out of life. I believe that the most important idea I have learned from the book is employing interdependence because it allows me to increase the quality of my […]
Commitment
For many years I didn’t think much about my future goals. I surely didn’t have any dreams or expected outcomes. I just went through life one day at a time without much direction. It wouldn’t be until I met my wife, Sonya, that my life started to change. I began to realize that I had […]
Learning New Test-Taking Skills
In almost any math course I teach, one of the most common problems students identify is that of taking tests. Even students who seem to be learning well during a specific unit can suddenly perform dismally on a unit examination. To help them do better on my tests, I used an exercise from the On Course text’s Facilitator’s […]
Critical Thinking and Improving Learning
National surveys of college faculty reveal that their number-one instructional goal is to promote critical thinking (Milton, 1982; Stark et al., 1990), and national reports on the status of American higher education have consistently called for greater emphasis on the development of college students’ critical thinking skills (Association of American Colleges, 1985; National Institute of […]
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