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South Africans in Six Descriptors
Having arrived home from South Africa on April 11, I have taken some time to try to process our experiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town. One of the most difficult, distressing, and uplifting museums that we visited in Johannesburg was the Apartheid Museum. When you enter you are given a ticket that randomly classifies you
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A Day in the Life of an AVP – the October Edition
Sometimes a picture says it all. Pickles. For lunch. At 4:00 PM. It was that kind of day.
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Open Education and Our Students
Last week I attended the annual OpenEd Conference that focuses on the work in and around developing open educational resources (OER), offering Z-classes, and crafting Z-degrees. ACC systematically started down this open education road in the Fall 2016 semester, building on small pockets of OpenStax textbook adoptions. In the current Fall 2018 semester ACC is
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A Day in the Life – the September Edition
“Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.” Actually, with my curly hair, a comb is ineffective. But still – you get the idea. I thought I would pick Friday the 21st to tell you about in the September edition of A Day in the Life of an AVP. I woke