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On Purpose

Posted on March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 by nicolecolter

Photo by Danica Tanjutco on Unsplash Today I woke up filled with such gratitude for having spent the week bearing witness to the deep transformational work that my students had the courage to pursue, and share, though your Personal Management Projects. I was grateful that weeks earlier I decided to revise our class schedule, prompted by a pivotal moment in the Day Shift...

Creativity Expert Exchange 2017

Posted on May 8, 2021May 8, 2021 by nicolecolter

A conference course is one way my graduate school offered alternative ways of earning credit. Here is the syllabus developed by my program for this independent study course that they designed to align with the conference they host. Here are my overarching goals submitted before this conference. Each student had to interview one of the conference speakers beforehand and the...

AERO Conference 2018

Posted on May 8, 2021May 8, 2021 by nicolecolter

My graduate school offered alternative ways of earning credit. One of those ways was a conference course. Here is the syllabus developed by my program for a conference they coordinate. I earned credit for that conference and then used this as a guide for my proposal for this second conference course that was specifically aligned with the change I seek to make in the world as ...

Principles of Management OER Project

Posted on February 15, 2021October 5, 2021 by nicolecolter

My classes are working on two open source projects in 2021 to create supplemental materials to the OpenStax Principles of Management textbook. Both will attempt to highlight the essence of the chapter contents in engaging ways for today's college students. One will be to develop text message courses for each chapter using the Arist platform. The other will be to devel...

My First Twitter Chat #Ungrading

Posted on December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 by nicolecolter

Alfie Kohn Quote - "An emphasis on defective mindsets (or a tendency to accuse students of being insufficiently motivated) conveniently lets us off the hook. It is popular for the same reason we may be tempted to believe that the problem is grade-grubbing students rather than grade-giving instructors and institutions."

Today I am participating in my first Twitter chat. I'm excited to learn from the early adopters of ungrading. I'm also committed to blogging through my journey here since I'm an evangelist for liberatory education practices and I want to share the research guiding my decision, and my ups and downs as I move in this direction. Just a reminder, this is #SelfDirectedEduca...

K202 – Principles of Management

Posted on August 7, 2020September 14, 2020 by nicolecolter

I am an education innovator committed to bringing the future of learning and business to my college class. https://soundcloud.com/nicole-colter/self-managed-team Use the link below to record and send your response at the end of the lesson References Bright, D. S. & Cortes, A. H. (2019). Principles of Management. Houston, TX: OpenStax. ISBN: 978-0-998625...

Podcasting

Posted on June 17, 2020September 13, 2023 by nicolecolter

I became most interested in using podcasting as learning medium, method, and assessment tool. Here's a link to the Deconstructing Management podcast I co-created with my Principles of Management students in 2021. Each episode was produced by 13 different self-managed teams of students, 3 teams in Spring 2021 and the rest in Fall 2021 in both my "day and night shift" classes. H...

Instructional Skills Workshop

Posted on May 30, 2020March 15, 2021 by nicolecolter

Here you will find the lessons I developed during ISW in the Summer of 2020 Podcasting for Professors Part 1 https://soundcloud.com/nicole-colter/podcasting-for-professors Resources http://sites.bu.edu/impact/previous-issues/impact-summer-2017/podcasts-and-the-twenty-first-century-college-classroom/ An ecology professor shares how he uses podcasts as assess...

Pick Yourself Project

Posted on January 3, 2020April 23, 2020 by nicolecolter

We are on a mission to change the world by igniting the creativity of young people and inspiring them to solve problems through entrepreneurship. We envision... a world where the cultural instinct of waiting to get picked is replaced by the bold confidence of Picking Yourself; anda generation equipped with the entrepreneurial mindset and skillset needed to create enterp...

Tale of a Reluctant School Starter

Posted on July 1, 2019January 8, 2020 by nicolecolter

In the United States we recently celebrated Juneteenth, a day which commemorates the end of slavery. We are about to celebrate the 4th of July, the independence day of our country. For me, freedom is always on my mind. You see, my heart yearns for the freedom of children. I wonder when will we celebrate their liberation? When will we even acknowledge their...