"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Yesterday during a web conference with faculty teaching in the Creighton University Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Leadership, we were discussing andragogy – the teaching of adults. Jeff Miller noted that one practice he used was to add Twitter to his classes. In an email later following up with me, he shared his rationale that is in… Read more Teaching and Learning with Twitter
During a brainstorming web conference with Elizabeth Mahler at Northeastern earlier this week, she noted the need to move our elearning and instructional design courses beyond simply instructional design to focus more on the user experience. Learning Experience Design (LXD) has been around for awhile, but I wonder how much attention it has garnered? Ruth… Read more Leaving a Bit of Our Heart in our Courses
I have subscribed to MIT Technology Review for almost a decade…it remains one of my best sources for what is emerging in technology. In a recent article, Bill Gates noted his ten favorite books about technology…and first on the list was Max Tegmark’s (2017) Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Apparently… Read more AI, Life 3.0, and Our Collective Future
In my Creighton University ILD-831 course on Technology and Leadership this week, my students are reflecting on what “knowledge management” means in a cloud environment. Tom Davenport, originally with Ernst and Young, defined KM in 1994 – “Knowledge Management is the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge.” That definition has certainly evolved in… Read more Knowledge Not College Mantra
It is a few years old now, but I finally got around to reading Jim Lang’s excellent book Small Teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning (2016). Jim defines small teaching as “…an approach that seeks to spark positive change in higher education through small but powerful modifications to our course design and teaching… Read more The Small Teaching Approach
Last year, I joined Harold Jarche’s Coffee Club, a professional community of practice that meets via Zoom once a month – and like Vegas, what happens in the conversation stays in the conversation. So other than to say this morning’s conversation was delightful – with individuals from Canada, USA, UK and Brazil – I will… Read more Considering Tetrads
Many have been bemoaning the final loss of the Martian Opportunity Rover, which lost contact last June and was officially declared dead this past week after 15 years roving the Martian landscape. One could say that we lost Opportunity…but it really is a story of what we gained. It was designed for a three month… Read more Opportunity Lost
…and I obviously mean the song…not the firearm (or arming of teachers!)! I have always been a fan of 38 Special…and this song played today on my Pandora stream as I was driving across town. (…and yes, I pulled over to take this picture so as to not violate the law!) Cool lyrics that have… Read more 38 Special Pedagogy
I have been reading P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking’s new book LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Tuesday evening, I was able to attend a talk that Emerson Brooking gave at the Robertson School of Media and Culture at VCU. They recorded the talk, and I will add that at the bottom of this… Read more Social Media as Unreality
In my post last Saturday on eLearning Myths a Decade Later, Sue Waters in Australia asked a good question: While I first taught online at the University of Nebraska in 1995 (pre-LMS’s), I have been teaching continuously online since 2001. So I thought I would look back 18 years and 8 years, and compare my… Read more Changes in Two Decades of Online Teaching
