“How to Know When To Take a Mental Health Day

Knowing myself, I don’t really enjoy skipping classes because I don’t like getting behind in schoolwork but there definitely comes a point where I know that I have too many priorities at once and I need to take a day for myself

Connected learning looks to digital media and communications to: offer engaging formats for interactivity and self-expression, lower barriers to access for knowledge and information, provide social supports for learning through social media and online affinity groups, link a broader and more diverse range of culture, knowledge, and expertise to educational opportunity.

I had never taken any sort of online course and the majority of my professors steered clear of using Canvas (BlackBoard/ Easel/ Moodle/ etc.) or any other online platform.

How will they regularly access their free open textbook if they don’t own an expensive laptop or tablet?

Leveraging the Internet: The Internet has frequently been compared to the printing press, which was in turn frequently compared to the process of writing books by hand. Today, the cost of having a 250-page book transcribed by hand is about $250. The cost of printing that same book with a print-on-demand service is about $5. The cost of copying an online version of that same book (e.g., an ePub file) is about $0.0008. The cost of shipping either the handwritten or printed book is about $5. The cost of distributing an electronic copy of the book over the Internet is approximately $0.0007.

Those educators who share the most thoroughly of themselves with the greatest proportion of their students are the ones we deem most successful

Despite the clear benefits of interdisciplinary studies, many politicians and educators continue to cut resources to the humanities, arguing that an education should be skills-based and career oriented.

Students who follow this format learn more about themselves and what they want from their educational experience than students who passively accept a predetermined curriculum based on a single field of study

An interdisciplinary contribution might not qualify a professor for tenure in any department because his study is not a formal subject attached to a single discipline.

Looking back, it makes so much more sense that they were able to make lesson plans based off each other’s knowledge and experience.

The medical field is most likely one of the most specialized fields in the world, even though it seems the human body and its complex systems would be the number one use for interdisciplinary study

Online courses provide the convenience of not having a designated time to learn, but they at first lacked the legitimacy of a physical university.

As will be seen, the specific rewards listed below fall within three overlapping categories: (i) growth of knowledge, (ii) other social benefits, and (iii) personal rewards.

The most widely cited attempts break down interdisciplinarity into components such as multidisciplinarity, pluridisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity.

We must reform higher education to reconstruct the unity and value of knowledge.

The various fruits can be served side by side, they can be chopped up and served as a fruit salad, or they can be finely blended so that the distinctive flavor of each is no longer recognizable, yielding instead the delectable experience of the smoothie.

Both multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity are valid ways to bring different academic perspectives together.  

Interdisciplinarity: Incorporates several fields of study to allow collaboration among diverse disciplines to either specify or broaden students’ education, to gain understanding, and/or to problem solve. Interdisciplinary is the adjectival form of the word. Interdiscipline is a field that emerges when two or more disciplines are combined.

In order to understand why so many college students do poorly in the first semester at college, we may need to break the question up into parts and look at study time, social life, living away from home, economic issues, mental health, oppression, and more. Studying these parts will help us get a sense of the overall reasons for the problem.

“To own one’s domain gives students an understanding of how Web technologies work. It puts them in a much better position to control their work, their data, their identity online.”

Just as the real computing revolution didn’t happen until the computer became truly personal, the real IT revolution in teaching and learning won’t happen until each student builds a personal cyberinfrastructure that is as thoughtfully, rigorously, and expressively composed as an excellent essay or an ingenious experiment.

. This is the type of progress needed in higher education today, as students, faculty, and staff inhabit and co-create their online lives.

Fascinating and important innovations would emerge as students are able to shape their own cognition, learning, expression, and reflection in a digital age, in a digital medium

The Domain of One’s Own initiative at University of Mary Washington (UMW) is helping to recast the conversation about student data. Instead of focusing on protecting and restricting students’ Web presence, UMW helps them have more control over their scholarship, data, and digital identity.