I have the pleasure of teaching a course at UC San Diego called “The College Classroom.” It’s a course for graduate students and postdocs about teaching and learning in higher education. Sometimes it’s theoretical, like when we talk about constructivism or mindset, sometimes it’s practical, like when we talk about various evidence-based instructional strategies, and sometimes it’s extremely practical, like what to do and say on the first day of class of the course you’re teaching.…
You’re Asking the Wrong Question
Quality Matters Monday: Standard 1.5
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 1.5.
Click here to view Quality Matters Standard 1.5 in the Quality Matters Rubric.
Open Serendipity
One of the things I love about open education in general, and open educational resources in particular, is the creative potential they offer to find, use, reuse, create and recreate such a wealth of diverse content and resources.
Lorna Campbell: Creativity, serendipity and open content | Open World
The post has some lovely examples of sources of surprising stuff, great rabbit hole links to dive into.…
Chalking my First Slate
I had a bit of a play with Adobe Slate this morning. It is an iOS app for publishing words and pictures.
It is quite a very process which allows you to get good looking results quickly. Macworld points out some limitations that struck me immediately.…
Ethics for MOOCs: Humble Transgressions
This post was extended by a Rhizo14 article and presentation, but that was fine as I learned some new stuff. But back to complexity ethics.
Transgressivity is the second of Woermann and Cilliers’ four mechanisms that reinforce and promote the critical attitude toward complex systems.…
Developing Upstanders in a Digital World
This past Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to co-facilitate a Day of Pink event for local school division. We invited approximately 100+ elementary students (mostly 7th graders) to participate. The themes included (digital) citizenship, (digital) identity, anti-bullying, and becoming an upstander (someone who stands up to support the protection, safety, and wise decision-making of others).…
The Online Learning Consortium’s 2014 Survey Report
The Online Learning Consortium sponsored the 2014 survey report, Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States and it is now available as a report and as an infographic.
This complimentary online learning research report is conducted by the Babson Survey Research Group, and is also sponsored by Pearson and the Tyton Partners.
#GlowScot Wiki Warm Ups
Over in the day job, most of my energy is spent on Glow Blog. I am also acting as ‘product owner’ for Glow Wikiis too. The went live with little fanfare in January and have been ticking along ever since.…
#etmooc Twitter Chat archive – Reflecting on Personal Learning
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