When Mastery Meets Passion and Curiosity

​You learn to code by doing.  Just another example of building a skill.

Competency based education has been going on for years; just not in the disciplines that the majority of us deem “practical”.  Art and design students do not sit around and read theory, they are tasked with creating portfolios of their work.…

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We Must Give Students Permission to Fail

What is failure?  Many of us are taught, from a very young age, that failure is the opposite of success.  Whether it be when we struggled on an algebra test, or lost a city championship game in baseball.  Or maybe you don’t like the career you chose, and you want to do something else but everybody tells you that its too late and you’ll have to start over.…

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Understanding the Current State of Online Education

I recently re-read an article written by Phil Hill in the Educause Review titled “Online Educational Delivery Models:  A Descriptive View“.   For someone like me who needs a way to put structure to the chaos that is the education technology and services landscape in higher education (not to mention K-12), this article is one of the best.…

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