Author: Dr. Anne-Marie Fiore
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Barriers to Online Learning
[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As a child, I attended the William McKinley Elementary School in North Bergen, New Jersey. There were 58 stairs to enter the school, teetering at the top of a hill on Liberty Avenue. One stair was symbolic for each year of President McKinley’s life. McKinley, our twenty-fifth President, was assassinated in 1901. The school was…
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Design Thinking in Practice
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Are you interested in understanding the stages of design thinking so that you can put them into practice? What does design thinking entail? Design thinking is a standard method for initiating innovation. It starts with empathy and knowledge of your users’ or customers’ requirements. It is a human-centered creative problem-solving method that involves working…
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Reasons Why Mastery Learning Is Becoming More Popular In Online Learning
Much of online learning is built on mastery learning. Benjamin Bloom revealed mastery learning for the first time in 1984 in his landmark book, The 2 Sigma Problem. Bloom explored several educational methods in The 2 Sigma Problem, including private tutoring, lecture-based training, and mastery learning. In this study, Bloom claimed that mastery learning produces…