What I Wish Everyone Knew About Making Individual Connections With Online Students
In the absence of meeting your students in a face to face course, how can instructors make individualized connections with their students in the online course environment. Introduce yourself and demonstrate to the students that you have a passion for…
5 Little Tricks To Achieve The Best Results In Student-Centered Design
Today’s digital students are demanding a higher quality of education and customized learning experiences. Accessibility and success depends on personal factors that extend beyond the campus. Students are looking for learning that relates directly to them. Online learning has allowed…
Steps Needed For Putting Social Media For Authentic Learning Into Action.
In this post, we will explore several types of technology, including social media used for learning, blogs, and wikis. We need to remember that although blogs and wikis, in some cases, predated social media, they are considered a part of…
Plugged into Curriculum Development
Being plugged into curriculum development compels one to examine emerging theory in current curricular development, but we have to examine the whole picture in recent education. We have seen educators customize and individualize curriculum according to needs of all students.…
How To Attract Your Students With Virtual and Augmented Realities
In classroom across the world, educators are exploring how virtual and augmented realities have found their way into classroom enhancing the traditional learning environments by blurring the physical and digital world. In addition to creating comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curriculum,…
Courting Adult Learners in Higher Education
What adult learners need from traditional colleges and universities. Although i have a doctoral degree in education, I decided that I wanted to get an MFA in Creative Writing. I had two criterion at the start of my search. I…
Standardized LMS Navigation for Student Success
There’s something cathartic about commiserating in unpleasant shared experiences. Like that time you were looking over the courses in your LMS and realized that they had no standardized navigation. Maybe, that’s the reason for the uptick of emails from lost…
Another Look at ADDIE
I am always exploring how learning theory and motivation can be applied to the instructional process to make it more engaging and practical for diverse learning audiences. So, I am taking another look at ADDIE. What is ADDIE?
Personalized Learning through Adaptive Technology
Over the past few months, you may have heard some chatter about personalized learning through adaptive technology. Not surprising. The Brookings Institution referred to personalized learning as a major movement in education. Murray (2017) stated that colleges and universities are increasingly seeking…
