Personalized Learning?
What does personalized learning look like? You can find definitions online, like this one from edglossary.org:"The term personalized learning, or personalization, refers to a diverse variety of...
View ArticleA Course Is Not a Game, Even If It Is Gameful
Gamification gets no respect - or, at least, not much respect. Most teachers still say that "learning shouldn't be a game." Some even say "learning shouldn't be fun." But gamification isn't about...
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Training Teachers Based on Competencies
"Meeting of doctors at the University of Paris" Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons As a graduate of a teacher-preparation program, I am always interested in hearing about new approaches to that...
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The T in Teaching Centers
These centers at colleges have many different names - Teaching & Learning Center (TLC), Teaching Support Center (TSC), Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) etc. - but "what's in a name" - or a...
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Flipping Learning and Making Spaces
I did a presentation titled "Flipping the Learning Model" for the annual conference of the Connecticut Education Network in May 2015. The flipped classroom has been a hot topic in education for a...
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The Augmented Reality of Pokémon Go
People have been searching for creatures and running down their phone batteries this month since Pokémon Go was released. Is there any connection of this technology to education, Ken? Let's see. First...
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Blending Competency-Based Education and Adaptive Learning
Last month, I attended the Fusion 2016 conference in Washington DC sponsored by the learning management system Brightspace (D2L or Desire2Learn). Two of the topics that ran across many of the...
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Clicking Links in an Online Course and Student Engagement
Overall LMS tool use via blackboard.comBlackboard's data science people have done a study on the data from all that student clicking in their learning management system and aggregated data from 70,000...
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Can a Course Not Have Learning Objectives?
Most professors probably have learning objectives for their courses. They describe what we plan to teach and how we plan to assess students. You may have read this summer about a case involving whether...
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Feedback on Student Writing and Using Mimesis to Teach Plagiarism
Instructors, especially those who do not teach writing as a subject, often struggle when it comes to making suggestions to students about what they need to do to improve their writing. I saw a survey...
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A New Kind of Core
Nicholas Lemann, in the December 2, 2016 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, wrote about what he is calling "a new kind of core curriculum." Lemann is a professor of journalism and dean...
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The Information Literacy of Fake News
Pre- and post-election last fall, there were many stories in all types of media about "fake news." An article in The Chronicleasks "How Can Students Be Taught to Detect Fake News and Dubious Claims?"...
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Getting to the Level of Social Learning
"The Cognitive Science Behind Learning" is an article that discusses the idea of viewing different levels as a way to approach the study of cognitive science and learning. It views cognitive science as...
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Myths of Social Learning
I had only posted about social learning here recently, but a few days after that post someone sent me a link to an article about "Four Myths of Social Learning." Myth 1: Social Learning is a New Fad -...
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A Failure of Media and Information Literacy
We heard a lot about the "fake news" that we (Americans) were consuming in 2016. The election of President Trump brought the topic to the top of the news feeds. Fake news is a new entry for Wikipedia...
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Using MOOC Data
The MOOC - massive and online and sometimes open - has been around long enough that there is now massive data collected about these courses and their participants. And yet, there is not much agreement...
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Teaching Social Media in Higher Ed
I have written elsewhere about a perceived "skills gap" for current employees when it comes to using social media in the workplace. Some social media consultants have said that 90% of workers don't...
View ArticleTrends in Game-Based Education
"Conversations about teaching with games (game-based learning) and learning about students through games (game-based assessment) are not new. What is new is the increasing focus on those educator and...
View ArticleGaming STEM in Humanities Courses
I did a presentation last month titled "Gaming STEM in Humanities Courses" at the NJEDge Faculty Best Practices Showcase. I talked about using serious games, primarily the Web Adventures series...
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Making Critical Thinking Critical
The news is full of specious reasoning, logical fallacies and cognitive biases. In other words, there is a lack of critical thinking. Most colleges and some high schools offer courses in critical...
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