"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Next Monday, our fifth OCDI starts, with (to date) 17 faculty enrolled. This is a one-year investment towards developing quality courses for VCU with the mindset and practice associated with learning on the open web. As a change this year, we are moving from our traditional LMS to a WordPress open site – http://rampages.us/ocdi/ Check it… Read more Our Fifth Online Course Development Initiative
Over the next two days (thanks to a lot of hard work by Joyce Kincannon), VCU will host its third Online Learning Summit. The Online Learning Summit invites participation from colleges and universities across the Commonwealth of Virginia, and at last count, we expect about two hundred to participate. The Summit theme of “Connections and… Read more Online Learning Summit 2014
As a follow-up to my previous blogpost, Joyce Kincannon and I sat down to record a podcast reflecting on our engagement at yesterday’s UVa Innovation in Pedagogy Summit. Have a listen:
Yesterday, Joyce Kincannon and I traveled up the road to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia for their second annual Innovation in Pedagogy Summit. We spend a good deal of our mental energy in our learning center focused on innovation in teaching and learning, and so this was an opportunity to see now another university… Read more Innovation in Pedagogy Summit