Two adjustments at once Nawal Ali NU‘11 and Jim Stellar In the continuing effort to capture what happens in the real-world of cooperative education experience, I got an e-mail over the summer from one of my mentees at … Continued
Another personal note – I moved. -Jim Stellar As College students and faculty make their ways back to campus in and around this Labor Day weekend, I do the same, but to a different place. As I mentioned earlier in … Continued
The Book “Blink” and Experiential Education: Tapping the same Other Lobe of the Brain Circuits? Once one begins to think about how emotional logic circuits operate in experiential education (other lobe of the brain thinking), one sees them in other … Continued
We notice more and more articles appearing that talk about education and social media, like this one last week in the Washington Post about twittering professors. So, we continue this theme with a post by Ashley and Jim. Take a … Continued
World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) conference. -Jim Stellar I just came from the World Association of Cooperative Education (WACE) and as I post this brief note from the Vancouver airport, they are wrapping up the meeting. Some … Continued
We had such a nice reaction to our last piece on leadership that we did it again below with Cynthia Bainton. We think it is important to see the connections between “other lobe” thinking in various domains and hope you … Continued
In this blog, we have thought of the “other lobe of the brain” as the limbic system, the emotional system that made logical decisions about meaning and value to accompany the facts-and-theories type of logic that some have called academic … Continued
This post is the third in a series co-authored by Jim and students. We wanted to give a flavor of what it is like to think with students as well as just have them take and give feedback on programs. … Continued