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Building upon How to Give Your Students Better Feedback in Less Time

This article above (you should read it – I’ll wait) encourages teachers to develop a “Teaching Toolbox” – essentially, a text document containing good, detailed feedback that you can quickly and easily paste into student work...

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 so many hours that you can be hunched over your desk reading. Why not clip your next few readings to Pocket, the read‐it‐later app for iOS and Android that now features t...

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 think that it is.

Number people who drowned by falling into a swimming‐pool correlates with Number of films Nicolas Cage appeared in

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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 work?” – well, uh, it seems people have differing ideas.

I think that many people take it as an article of faith that giving badges will magically mot...

How long is too long for a lecture? Teachers can commonly spend upwards of 45 minutes lecturing in class. This arbitrary time frame is something we’ve settled into thanks to the traditional lengths of classroom meeti...

Classroom Responses Systems (AKA “clickers”) offer teachers and students a way to make classroom lectures more interactive and engaging than lectures alone. Eric Mazur, Derek Bruff and others have pioneered ways to use classroom response cli...

Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo.

Do you wish you could make one change in your course that would increase student engagement and boost your course evaluations? Research shows that courses with high rates of in...

_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 response in case it can benefit any other education/information p...

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 Yourself in College into production!

Details are sketchy at this point, but the app may be used to reach...

Response to The Trouble with Online College, NY Times

I think this article is right on the money about the ch...