Category: Teaching
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MS + NYU = G4LI
MS and NYU have teamed up to create the Games for Learning Institute. It looks like quite the collaboration to bring a scientific lens to the game learning debate. It will be lead by Ken Perlin and Jan Plass.
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Opening closed doors in Higher Ed
There is some talk in the edblogoshphere right now about Open Education, and I have to admit that I haven’t been following it very closely for a lack of time of late. But regardless if the release of this book is responsible for it or not, I found something interesting in the executive summary (TOC…
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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…
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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…
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Homework and reflection
Yesterday in a curriculum meeting the topic of assessments, student workload and homework came up. As the different ideas went around the table ranging from “students have questions that they can do if they want” to what seemed to amount to another day’s work in the evening, I interjected. I suggested that there is no…