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Current Trends in Postsecondary Education

Oleson and Hora (2012) stated, “An oft-repeated mantra in higher education is that faculty ‘teach the way they were taught,’ which is largely based on the fact that few faculty receive formal pedagogical training” (p. 3).

In this assignment, you will reflect on your own experience as a student in postsecondary education.

Tasks:

In a minimum of 200 words, respond to the following:Discuss your best and worst experiences during your own postsecondary learning. Provide reasons for your assumptions.Describe the demographics of today’s typical postsecondary learners. Contrast your description with that of the postsecondary learners during your postsecondary career.Characterize the instructional methods and media with which you learned during your postsecondary career and then compare that with the way today’s postsecondary learners prefer to learn. Support your assumptions with rationales.

Support your discussion with scholarly recourses using APA format for citations and references.

Reference:

Oleson, A., & Hora, M. T. (2012). Teaching the way they were taught? Revisiting
           the sources of teaching knowledge and the role of prior experience in
           shaping faculty teaching practices (WCER Working Paper 2012-9).
           Retrieved from University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin Center for
           Education Research website: http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/publications/
           workingPapers/papers.php

Submission Details:By Friday, July 3, 2015, post your responses to this Discussion Area.Through Sunday, July 5, 2015, respond to at least two of your peers’ posts. While responding, be sure to point out how your college experience is similar to or different from that of your peers.i need one page 

Assignment 2 Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsDiscussed best and worst experiences during personal postsecondary learning; provided reasons.8Described the demographics of today’s typical postsecondary learner; contrasted personal description with that of postsecondary learners during your postsecondary career.4Responded substantively to at least two peers’ posts.4Articulated key points in a clear, logical, and professional manner, with supporting evidence, wherever required, and actively contributed to the discussion by providing points of view with rationales, challenging points of the discussion or drawing relationships between points of the discussion.4Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.4Total:24