"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Last week my students in ADLT 640 learned some amazing lessons … including some that were not on the syllabus. ADLT 640 – The Theory and Practice of eLearning in Adult Environments – is an eight week summer course that starts a three-course track in the Adult Learning Masters program on teaching with technology. We… Read more Peanut Butter, Mother Nature and eLearning
An interesting take from Edudemic Magazine:
This summer session, I am teaching an eight-week graduate course in the Adult Education graduate program on the Theory and Practice of eLearning Integration in Adult Environments (ADLT-640) for VCU. The course was originally designed as a hybrid course, meeting once a week, but I suggested a format change to meet twice a week the… Read more Teaching an eLearning class F2F
May is always a crazy time here in the Center, and this has been a busy week leading up to two more busy weeks. On Monday, our Center of Teaching Excellence hosted our first Online Learning Summit. Yesterday, several of us did a road trip to Fredericksburg for University of Mary Washington‘s 17th Faculty Academy. … Read more A Summit and Academy
Infographics seem to be the rage right now, but I was impressed by one published today by Ryan Glass (a blogger at Frugal Dad): Source: FrugalDad Thoughts?
This week in our Teaching, Learning and Technology course, GRAD-602, we will explore active learning. I was delighted that one of our students jumped in to the topic early with her post, “Educators Against Active Learning.” Now, EvoAcademic is not against active learning herself. Rather, she is commenting about Kevin Mattson‘s 2005 article, “Why ‘Active… Read more Which Word is Emphasized in “Active Learning”?
One of my favorite non-holidays. The date 3.14 reminds us of that irrational number Pi, or π, though I have to admit that my favorite irrational number is i, the square root of negative one. With all the changes occurring in both the digital world and education in general, if might be nice if we… Read more Happy Pi Day Once Again
I have just finished reading (and enjoying) Linda Harasim‘s book, Learning Theory and Online Technology (Routledge Publishing, 2011). She postulates that the learning theories of the past centuries need updating for the networked learning era in which we find ourselves. Linda frames a new theory by taking us on a historical journey through the development… Read more Online Learning Theory
Over the past month or so, we have taken our students in GRAD 602 on a carefully scaffolded journey through web technology to support teaching and learning. With Jeff Nugent and our graduate fellow, David McLeod, we have laid out how the web is impacting the landscape of learning, suggested the use of Chickering and… Read more From Aggregation to Curation
As many of you know, Jeff Nugent and I teach a graduate course in the Preparing Future Faculty program called GRAD-602: Teaching, Learning and Technology. Our 24 PhD candidates and post-docs spend the first 6 weeks exploring different potential technologies, such as blogs, Twitter, Diigo, and other networked applications. Most of them are familiar with… Read more Toe Dipping in Technology