Tag: Teaching and Learning Strategies

  • A Couple of Open Courses

    There are quite a few courses now that are open to the world. The first one that I spotted online was George Siemens” course that explored the idea of working/learning/creating beyond the classroom. Today, I spotted another, and this (story, course) one is a little more ambitious – using the RPG framework to create a…

  • Thoughts from ISSOTL

    The ISSOTL conference, not being a technology conference, it was not an opportunity to see what the latest and greatest in technology integration ideas. It was however an interesting opportunity to see (in the technology sessions that I was interested in) how technology was being adopted by the cream of the crop of progressive instructors.…

  • TTP on TXTbooks

    The Teaching Professor has a couple of articles this time around regarding textbooks. The first, talks about how to help students use the textbook more effectively (students using and instructors using texts “properly”, what a novel idea!). The second is about what using the text really teaches students. From the first article, there are four general points that are…

  • It’s the product, not the process… but what if the product is a process

    C|Net has an interesting interview with Chris Heatherly from Disney. At one point he refers to innovation: I think too many people confuse innovation and technology. I have seen a lot of designers try to make a mediocre concept innovative by putting Bluetooth or some other whiz bang technology du jour in it. That’s not…

  • It’s about time!

    If you are finding yourself with some extra coin in your pocket and wondering about getting an iPhone or switching to the Mac, you might want to check out these guys. They follow the “learn by doing” model of instruction and have done quite a bit of work to recreate the devices that they are…