First Steps “We identified a statewide need for a stronger online course quality assurance process in Michigan,” remembered Joe Freidhoff, Executive Director, Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute (MVLRI) at Michigan Virtual University (MVU), when asked what sparked an interest in Quality Matters (QM). “We were looking at issues of … [Read more...]
Four Reasons You Should Present at A QM Conference
If you’ve ever attended #QMConnect, you know it can be a transformative experience. Conferences offer attendees networking and learning opportunities, tools and ideas. Meeting educators from across the world and discovering they grapple with the same challenges you and your colleagues face in your organizations can foster community and … [Read more...]
John Locke: Research, Social Contract Theory and American Higher Education
I no sooner perceived myself in the world than I found myself in a storm” – John Locke In his American Higher Education, A History (Second Edition), Christopher Lucas posits that society’s earliest attempts at codifying the theory and practice of higher education were seeded in Aristotle’s pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, absent … [Read more...]
Here, An Ending
At the end we broke everything. Or it was already broken at the beginning. In the bedroom clothes were waiting in the hamper for the wash. My bras and panties and your boxers and undershirts, my jeans and tees, your shorts and sweat socks. The room was divided and the sides didn't meet except when you left your things all over. "You want some … [Read more...]
Shade
An element of shade is its Color the silent cool of a Lengthening lightless all. An element of shade is its No-smell and no-form, Except, perhaps, in the old Breezes beneath formed Mammoth cracked trunks, Ancient from before a stolid, Lumbering s/he emerged From all imagination, built Of stars, sallying suns, dark Light from … [Read more...]
At Sea
Remember when joy leaped across Sated skin after these weakened souls Discovered the other? You steered the Unanchored sails of a wrecked ship, on Tempest-turned seas, you were the Winded, worn love-house rising from a Blissful verdant shore. Angered waves, Pregnant with the power of a million million Silent suns, tumbled our … [Read more...]
She
She... ...gathered herself into the everything since before there was a thing to call time, shafts of blue-red light, carrying the motes on which my auburn love floats. She... ...was the ancient kiln built in a browned, weathered heart-home into which I fed the dreamstuff from which lives grow, the firstfallen fruits of Fate's first … [Read more...]
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