Changes in Two Decades of Online Teaching
In my post last Saturday on eLearning Myths a Decade Later, Sue Waters in Australia asked a good question: While I first taught online at the University of Nebraska in 1995 (pre-LMS’s), I have been...
View ArticleThe Small Teaching Approach
It is a few years old now, but I finally got around to reading Jim Lang’s excellent book Small Teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning (2016). Jim defines small teaching as “…an...
View ArticleLeaving a Bit of Our Heart in our Courses
During a brainstorming web conference with Elizabeth Mahler at Northeastern earlier this week, she noted the need to move our elearning and instructional design courses beyond simply instructional...
View ArticleTeaching and Learning with Twitter
Yesterday during a web conference with faculty teaching in the Creighton University Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Leadership, we were discussing andragogy – the teaching of adults. Jeff Miller noted...
View ArticleOn Being There
An interesting conversation developed today in my class hashtag on Twitter. One student shared Mary Ludden’s post “How to connect in a connectionless environment…”, which suggested that three key...
View ArticleThe Purpose of Online Learning
In a five-part series, Canadian Tony Bates looked at the overall purpose of online courses, in reaction to recent moves by the Canadian government: Ontario’s strategy to use online learning to ease...
View ArticleTwo Faces of Social Media
This week, I start teaching an 8-week course for Merrimack – ED6306 – Technology, Communication and School Improvement. One of the course objectives is for students to revise or develop a social media...
View ArticleOh The Changes We Will See
Stephen Downes noted this report in his blog post a few days back, noting: “This report has some flaws but it is overall a far better snapshot of the future of learning than many of its contemporaries…...
View ArticleOptimism and Pessimism in a Bipolar World
I just saw an insightful tweet from Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI): The events of the past week, culminating in the horrific insurrection of the pro-Trump mob on the U.S. Capital, have been in my thoughts...
View ArticleSmall Teaching Revisited
Jim Lang is out with his Second Edition to Small Teaching. Anyone who follows me knows that I have liked this series, blogging about the First Edition here and the companion book that Flower Darby and...
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