What Works in Classroom Forums – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher...
What a Tech Start-Up’s Data Say About What Works in Classroom Forums – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Interesting. This confirms some of my own feelings and experiences. Suggestions:...
View ArticleMy First Coursera Course: First Impressions
I have registered for my first Coursera course: the one on Gamification. I’m keen to see what it’s like. Besides, I think all teachers should become students* from time to time. First Impressions The...
View ArticleCoursera Gamification Course, Assignment 1.
I’m still playing along with the coursera course on Gamification. (See my initial reaction here) Today our first assignment is due. Here’s the scenario: You are an employee of Cereals Incorporated, a...
View ArticleCoursera Gamification Course, Second Impressions.
I am now midway through my first coursera course on Gamification. (If you want to find other posts on this, try the ‘coursera’ tag, right). I offered some initial thoughts here. I haven’t really...
View ArticleCoursera Gamification Course, Assignment 2.
I’m still playing along with the coursera course on Gamification. (See my initial reaction here, and my first assignment here). This week we get our second assignment (out of three). This course only...
View ArticleCoursera Gamification: Curiouser and Curiouser – Cheating in a course with no...
It seems that people out here at the Interwebs are searching around using the problem statement in the (my) coursera gamification course. Hmmmm, I say. I decided to make my learning experience public...
View ArticleCoursera Gamification Course, Assignment 3.
I’m still playing along with the coursera course on Gamification. (See my initial reaction here, and my first assignment here). This week we got our last assignment (out of three). This course only...
View ArticleNYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired? « Computing Education Blog
NYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired? « Computing Education Blog. I agree with the concerns raised by Mark here. I would add a few additional concerns to this as well. See, I’m not as...
View ArticleWhat happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and...
Another great bit of info from Mark Guzdial’s blog: Home About Computing Education BlogWhat happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and Learning Do Not FitJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:46...
View Article30 or so eLearning Tools, and a few lists.
From time to time I come across a number of useful resources, and rather than bookmark them (never to be found again), I am putting them in my blog so I can search for them. This is one of those …...
View ArticleIt’s Not PowerPoint’s Fault
There’s a discussion going on (again) on one of the forums I follow that is trashing PowerPoint. Now, I’m not a big fan of Microsoft, but really, PowerPoint is one of their better applications. The...
View ArticleSmart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots – Health News :...
Smart Teenage Brains May Get Some Extra Learning Time : Shots – Health News : NPR. We have long accepted that there are specific critical periods in animals as they grow up – we know a fair bit about...
View ArticleBBC News – Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’
BBC News – Harvard plans to boldly go with ‘Spocs’. How are “Spocs” different from other small private online courses (i.e. the ones we’ve been doing for well over a decade)? … Aside from have a sexy...
View ArticleWhere I’ve Been Online (Jun 7, 2014)
Opinion: Equity and Excellence in Skills and Higher Education in Canada | Canada 2020 “Canada has been a strong performer in post-secondary education and skills development for many years. On key...
View ArticleWorth a Read: As learning moves online, trigger warnings must too
As learning moves online, trigger warnings must too Dana Ruggiero, Bath Spa University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When I was a first-year...
View ArticleWorth Sharing: Global policy forum to forge future of online learning –...
University World News did an excellent interview with HETL Chief Liaison and HETL Vice President, Professor Mandla Makhanya, Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa (UNISA), one of the...
View ArticleWorth Sharing: ‘This change will be the end of the Open University as we know...
Just because we can doesn’t always mean we should. Yes, it is true that more and more people are taking courses online via MOOCs, but do we really know how successful that is? There are a whole host of...
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