Disrupting Education: Cost or Quality?
Embed from Getty Images In response to When Uber and Airbnb Meet the Real World. A friend got me thinking about how Uber and...
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July 8, 2024
Adaptive and “Pseudo-adaptive” LMS Feedback
Whenever we build a one-size-fits-all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized...
June 6, 2024
Save The Planet! A Modern WebQuest
This post describes how I created a WebQuest using modern eLearning authoring tools, AI content generation, and streaming video.
June 6, 2024
If You Want Microlearning, Think About Learning Objectives
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
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Digital Native Students are More Consumers than Creators
Embed from Getty Images OK, friends– it’s time to get over it. You might call young people “digital native students” but there are severe...
Don’t Hate the LMS, It Can Help Keep Our Focus on Learning
I’ve been noticing an interesting thread in online conversations recently, with people I respect either bashing or defending the LMS. Audrey Watters’ Beyond the...
Action-Oriented eLearning with the Humble WebQuest
One challenge about creating reusable eLearning content is that designers often fall back into the banking model of education, creating a passive and dependent learning...
Use Keynote or PowerPoint to Make App Mockups and Wireframes
If you’ve ever wanted to create an app for mobile, desktop, or the web, you might not know where to start. Creating interactive app...
How Open Badges Can Promote Student Motivation
When we ask “why offer Mozilla Open Badges in education?”, the answer often comes back “to motivate students”. When we ask “how exactly does that...
MakerSpaces in Education | Horizon Report 2014
One of the emerging trends from the 2014 NMC Horizon Report is the growing prevalence of MakerSpaces in education. MakerSpaces (also called HackerSpaces) are places where...
Content Delivery Isn’t Instruction but it’s Still Important to Do Well
I religiously read Audrey Watters’ Hack Education blog, often finding that I agree with her in principle and then disagree about the details of...
Managing Project-Based Learning in Trello: A Case Study
This is a reflection on the process for using Trello in Project-Based Learning that will hopefully help you decide if Trello is right for...
Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs Part II: Supporting Educators to Support Students
In the previous post, Saving Universities in the Era of MOOCs, I discuss the value proposition of traditional universities, and how those values are...
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