As part of their assessment, Yr 7s completed a task where they had to consider different shaped garden beds that all covered the same area, choose one, then calculate the volume of soil needed to fill it.
There was an optional extension involving a circular based bird bath, for those who had completed work on the circumference and area of circles.…
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Loading...I started this post last night, reflecting at the end-of-the-day for day one of our Working Out Loud week. Was a bit too tired to finish it in a coherent fashion. Serendipity. A theme emerged. Along with the coffee. I woke up this morning to a blog post from Helen Crump in which she shares […]
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It’s Quality Matters Monday! Each Monday, we will highlight a Quality Matters standard and review its importance in an online course and how we evaluate this standard.
Today, we are reviewing Quality Matters Standard 1.8.
Click here to view Quality Matters Standard 1.8 in the Quality Matters Rubric.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ll be here, narrating some of my own work and thoughts on this effort as we go through the week ahead. But we’re already witnessing the kind of experimentation that a short-burst work-out-loud event seems to inspire – both on Twitter and within our graduate program’s private enterprise social network.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It’s Week 3 in #rhizo15, and Dave Cormier has asked us to consider content and its role in education. He says:
I’ve always been a little confused by the word ‘content.’ There is
something lonely and unconnected about the word somehow, when i hear it
used with reference to what happens in learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It’s Week 3 in #rhizo15, and Dave Cormier has asked us to consider content and its role in education. He says:I’ve always been a little confused by the word ‘content.’ There is something lonely and unconnected about the word somehow, when i hear it used with reference to what happens in learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Yesterday’s Chronicle announcement of the MOOC-related study Preparing for the Digital University (a comprehensive review of distance, blended and online learning funded in part by the Gates Foundation and investigated in part by Athabasca University) created somewhat of a tremor in the social media landscape for those who follow George Siemens (one of the researchers in the study, the point-person for the Chronicle write up, and one of the creators of CCK08, the course that spawned the MOOC acronym) and Stephen Downes (one of the more prevalent and accessible EdTech researchers today, as well as the other primary creator of CCK08, the course that spawned the MOOC acronym). …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Yesterday’s Chronicle announcement of the MOOC-related study Preparing for the Digital University (a comprehensive review of distance, blended and online learning funded in part by the Gates Foundation and investigated in part by Athabasca University) created somewhat of a tremor in the social media landscape for those who follow George Siemens (one of the researchers in the study, the point-person for the Chronicle write up, and one of the creators of CCK08, the course that spawned the MOOC acronym) and Stephen Downes (one of the more prevalent and accessible EdTech researchers today, as well as the other primary creator of CCK08, the course that spawned the MOOC acronym). …
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Holly Kathleen Hall
Today, we are spotlighting Arkansas State University professors, Holly Kathleen Hall, Dr. Thillainatarajan Sivakumaran, and Dr. Annette Hux. They were Fall 2013 Faculty Research Grant
Recipients for their proposal, “Is the Market Saturated for Graduates in Online Educational Leadership Programs?”
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I want to finish my series about rhizo-ethics before Dave Cormier posts another #rhizo15 challenge. We’ll see.
Woermann and Cilliers’ discussion of complex ethics in their article The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics (2012) insists that ethics in complex spaces requires a self-critical rationality and that this rationality is supported by four principles: provisionality, …
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