"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
We just wrapped up our annual institute…a part of our year-long Online Course Development Initiative. Again this year, we have 20 faculty who joined our eLearning Team this week at the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence to focus on teaching and what teaching means in an online environment. During our final lunch, we all discussed… Read more Our Annual Online Teaching Institute
I joined Jeff Nugent and David McLeod for a final podcast for this Spring’s GRAD-602 class. For the past 15 weeks, we explored “Teaching, Learning and Technology” with our VCU Preparing Future Faculty students. We comment today on our perceptions about this class and the future they face in higher education. Give a listen! … Read more Developing Future Faculty
With hat tip to @AdoptAGldn, this is an interesting infographic from DistanceLearning.Com posted at LearnDash: Created by: www.DistanceLearning.com
Last week in GRAD-602, Jeff Nugent led an exploration on assessment. We noted that a distinction can be made between learning for mastery versus the traditional approach that typically leads to sorting and sifting students. This provided a segway to the evening’s focus on formative and summative assessment. In class, we brainstormed ways in which… Read more Roundtable Discussion on Assessment
Interesting infographic from InternetProvider.Org on the positive and negative influences of hyperconnectiveness, based on the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Muhammad Saleem sent this cool infographic based on the New Media Consortium’s 12 emerging technologies to watch.
In our GRAD 602 class last week, we spent some time surfacing our students’ beliefs about learning. As Laura noted in her blog, we “dabbled in the classic ‘See one, do one, teach one.’” From there, we then discussed some of the work of John Bransford on How People Learn, as well as the opening… Read more Impact of Prior Knowledge on Teaching
Another Pi Day (3.14) is upon us, and math geeks worldwide celebrate this most famous of irrational numbers. For those who would love to follow the thread, here is a link to one million digits of pi. Yet, I feel some other just as good irrational numbers are being left out. There are plenty of… Read more Yet Another Pi Day Has Come
It’s Spring Break here at VCU, so no GRAD-602 class this week. However, as Jeff Nugent, David McLeod and I are all here this week…and since the Open VA Conference was cancelled due to a March snow storm, we decided to have another podcast conversation. Last week in our class, our students discussed a case… Read more A Conversation on Risk Taking by New Faculty
Sat down with Jeff Nugent and David McLeod, my co-teachers for GRAD-602, to discuss the tension between learner autonomy and learner compliance. This is planned to be the first in a series of podcasts we three will do for this course. Good discussion around power, roles, self-directedness, and learning-centered students. Note: The Skeptical Goat made… Read more A Conversation on Learner Autonomy and Compliance