Make a teaching toolbox for better, faster student feedback
Building upon How to Give Your Students Better Feedback in Less Time This article above (you should read it — I’ll wait) encourages teachers...
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March 24, 2023
What’s Different Between the Life of a Classroom Teacher vs. Instructional Designer?
How is the day-to-day life of an Instructional Designer different than that of a K12 classroom teacher? Many classroom teachers are looking to make...
February 10, 2023
The “Attention Method” for Effective Presentation Decks – Updated
This is an update to my previous post, The “Attention Method” for Effective PowerPoint Presentations. My Attention Method™ of presentation design is a philosophy...
August 24, 2022
Microlearning is not a Platform, it’s a Design Choice
One frequent buzzword you’ll hear a lot in the eLearning world is “microlearning”. More often than not, it’s pushed by companies trying to sell...
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Listen to Course Readings Later with Pocket Text To Speech
If you’re a student or an academic, you probably have a large volume of reading you need to do every week, and there’s only...
Big Data Requires Big Compassion
A friend reminded me of the site Spurious Correlations, which shows absurd “relationships” between data that couldn’t possibly be related– though it’s fun to...
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...
“The 4:5 Rule” : Lecture Capture Video for the Internet Attention Span
How long is too long for a lecture? Teachers can commonly spend upwards of 45 minutes lecturing in class. This arbitrary time frame is...
A Teacher’s Guide to Equal Access in the Age of BYOD, Web 2.0, and Mobile Computing
Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur,...
How to Use Online Learning Tools to Increase Interaction and Improve Learning Outcomes
Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo. Do you wish you could make one change...
Letter to a budding Instructional Designer: Getting Started Designing in Instructure’s Canvas LMS
I was recently asked to email a friend-of-a-friend, a librarian who was asked to do some Instructional Design in Canvas LMS. I’m reprinting my...
Picture Yourself: A Mobile App for College Readiness
Update: Just had an amazing pitch meeting with the University of California’s Office of the President, and they agreed to move my mobile app Picture...
MOOCs Can Save Students, Not Just Dollars
Response to The Trouble with Online College, NY Times I think this article is right on the money about the challenges of online learning—...
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