"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
In the Online Learning Insights weekly news this morning, there is a review of the Serious eLearning Manifesto, released last week by four e-learning “instigators.” These instigators suggest that most elearning is broken, and that a new set of standards are required to raise elearning to its potential. Quoting from the manifesto: Supporting Principles 1. … Read more 30 Day Challenge – Day 12 – Serious eLearning, Seriously?
My colleague here in our Center for Teaching Excellence – Enoch Hale – intellectually pushes me all the time…and that is a good thing. Enoch has become a valued addition to co-teaching GRAD-602 with Jeff Nugent this semester. If you have listened to some of our podcasts, you have heard him. Like many of our… Read more 30 Day Question Challenge – Day 1- Complicated or Complex
In 10 days, we start our summer institute on online teaching and learning. This is an experiment of sorts for my institution. For the first time, our institute this year will be the start of an upcoming year-long process to help a cohort of faculty develop and teach online classes. Following the institute, each member… Read more Bridging the Chasm