Category: Learning Design
Why use Microsoft Word with blind math students?
How do you write mathematical documents like problem sets, quizzes, and tests so that a student...
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The Impact of Smartphones on Curriculum
The iPhone was released in 2007 and by the end of 2019, 81% of U.S. adults owned a Smartphone....
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Make Space for Innovation in Curriculum
For the last decade the learning analytics movement has pushed institutions to pay much closer...
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Spicing up those Introduction Posts in Online Courses
Most online courses have an “Introduce Yourself” post. I imagine that these posts get...
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Battle of the (free) Digital Whiteboarding Tools
tldr; See the comparison and who won. Many years ago (2012), in a state far, far away (Michigan),...
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Should we ask students to subscribe to a newspaper?
Every day, I find articles in the newspaper that relate to my Business Ethics course and the...
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Learning to Screencast – Training Videos
I’ve just set up a new Microsoft Surface, and as a learning exercise, I recorded every...
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Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast about ESIL Lens
Back in December, I joined Bonni Stachowiak for an episode of Teaching in Higher Ed specifically...
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ESIL: A Learning Lens for the Digital Age
In the early 90’s, most people had three reasonable choices for looking up the information you did...
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Bringing the Real World to Your Math Class Every Day
I’ve been spending the first 5-10 minutes of every 2-hour math class discussing graphs in...
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Understand in learning objectives – it’s the forest, not the trees
If you’re a faculty member, you can probably tell me all about the first time an instructional...
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Group Exploration in Math
I am often asked how to get learners to spend more time “exploring” in their learning rather than...
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