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Tag: Learning

  • Moving forward

    Well, as you may have noticed the posting here has fallen through the floor, though I’ve been sure to update my picture of the week. This has got me thinking about what the future of this blog might be. I was thinking about shuttering it, but then I thought about all that I’m learning now…

  • Novelty is the best teacher

    I’d say this is proof that novelty teaches (yeah, I know I’m behind on this meme… but what can you do?). I guess the trick is – you have to make sure that even the novelty has novelty. You might have to do some really boring presentations now and again if all you ever do…

  • Infacebook Learning

    Fast Company posted an interesting article a few days ago on Facebook and informal learning which I finally got around to today. There aren’t many people out there who won’t agree that something can be learned out of the formal context of a school room or lecture hall, but many will argue that social networks,…

  • Student Perceptions – a report from Memorial

    You can download the entire report here, but I’ll quickly put up the main findings. To be an effective face to face instructor, students were looking for an instructor who is: Respectful Knowledgeable Approachable Engaging Communicative Organized Responsive Professional Humorous For distance education streams students looked for instructors who are: Respectful Responsive Knowledgeable Approachable Communicative…

  • Video Games impact studying… here’s the proof

    This is odd, I’m posting something that shows that gaming has a dark side when it comes to education. But this is a dark side on the “back end” of the exercise, not the front. From a study by Ralph and Todd Stinebrickner (picked up through Guardian Ed): Using real-world data, it would never be…