Category: Lifelong Learning

U.Va. Faculty, Students Give Online Education a Mostly Positive Grade | UVA Today

I am so pleased that I had the opportunity to participate in this exciting experiment! Emanuel Grant’s introduction to the world of massive open online courses – a/k/a “MOOCs” – came this spring in his final undergraduate semester at the University of Virginia.The Italian studies major from Fairfax served as a volunteer “Community TA” for…

May 17, 2013
Week 10 – Know Thyself | An end but also a beginning

Thank you, Professor Green and all those at UVa who worked so hard to produce this superb MOOC! This is my final post for this course, but just the beginning of the newest “me” …

May 13, 2013
Week 9 – Know Thyself | Maybe dementia has no “self” to steal

Today I am fine, and I will enjoy this moment! If we have no “selves” to lose, perhaps living in the present rather than dwelling on the past

May 6, 2013
Week 8 – Know Thyself | My Scores | Different lives or different persons?

Sometimes it seems to me that I have been a very different different person at different times. — Or have I just lived several different lives? There is much food for thought in the lectures for this week! I do have memory links

April 28, 2013
Week 7 – Know Thyself | OF COURSE chocolate is good for you

I have to admit that I love chocolate! As Professor Green was talking about confirmation bias, I kept thinking of my friends’ jokes about my knack of finding all available reports of health benefits for things that I especially like – especially chocolate.

April 19, 2013
Digital Public Library of America Now Open | UVa joins nationwide digital public library project

The Digital Public Library of America is now open. Take a look! U.Va. set to contribute more than 10,000 digital images to literary database By Shannon Reres | Apr 14 Marshall Bronfin /The Cavalier Daily A collection of more than 10,000 digital images from the University’s library will soon be available at The Digital Public…

April 19, 2013