Hi. I'm Brandi. I think the following things are interesting: higher education, institutional research, chaos theory, technology, Sigmund Freud, music, the human brain, learning and The Soup on E! (formally Talk Soup).
I particularly like doing research in higher education (HE) on student learning and success that has implications for practice and policy. Throughout my education I have gathered a plethora of more specific interests in this area. For example, student development in higher education through technology, teacher education, retention and transfer patterns, campus culture, and issues of assessment and accountability in HE.
My focus in this course is on assessment/accountability in HE. I am concerned with the role of learning theory in this work and how learning sciences can offer a new perspective for institutions.
More to come soon....
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