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Adventures in Ungrading
How do you reconcile your role as a teacher with your role as a grader. Giving expert feedback– formative assessment—is not the problem. That’s a part of what good teachers do. Feedback helps students improve their work and enhance their learning. … Continue reading
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Mastery Learning & Personalized Digital Courseware
In my last post, I talked about the importance of instructional design in promoting or inhibiting student learning. One of the benefits when you start thinking about instructional design is you discover assumptions and constraints that your course imposes on … Continue reading
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The Critical Importance of Instructional Design
I attended the OLC Accelerate conference last fall in Orlando, and as is often the case, I got more out of the conversations between sessions than I got from the sessions themselves. What follows is the first of a series … Continue reading
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Education Needs to be Inconvenient
Seth Godin is one of the most thought-provoking thinkers I know. Here’s a recent blog post of his that FSEM students might find interesting: https://seths.blog/2018/09/education-needs-to-be-inconvenient/
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Imagination and Education
At one of the first sessions of my First Year Seminar this year, we brought in Naomi De la Tour, via Zoom conference from the Institute for Advanced Teaching & Learning at Warwick University to lead a discussion on imagination, risk-taking … Continue reading
What Makes a Compelling Faculty Development Opportunity?
This post is going to be short and I hope sweet. The best faculty development opportunities I’ve experienced in my career haven’t been designed primarily (or explicitly?) for faculty development: Examples include UMW’s Faculty Academy, ELI Annual Conferences, at least … Continue reading
Tolstoy, Economics and OER
David Wiley wrote a recent blog post that had me scratching my head. In the post, David argued that OER is in a feature of the resource, not who is providing it and whether the provider is offering it for … Continue reading
The nicer the hotel, the higher the price for Wi-Fi
This is a response to a question posted on Twitter from @rharneson, with a nod to @BryanAlexander–the title is an application of Alexander’s Iron Law of Hotel Connectivity. I tweeted “how annoying it was to pay for hotel Wi-Fi.” @rharneson … Continue reading
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A Cautionary Tale about Expectations
I was talking the other day to a fairly senior administrator in academic affairs about OpenLearning18. This administrator has been very supportive of our institution’s open initiative, and so I was just bringing him/her up to date on things open. … Continue reading
A Conceptual Framework?
I participated in OpenLearning17 and am back for OpenLearning18. Why you ask? Because I learned enough last year to articulate better questions this year. Last year, I went in somewhat blind. (There might be something we can learn as teachers … Continue reading