Category Archives: online learning

There is something wonderfully simple and direct about email!

Big Online Courses Have a Problem. Here’s How We Tried to Fix It.

On the big stage!

Everyone should be a strategic learner in the 21st century

How computers change the way we learn

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141022-are-we-getting-smarter

Key Takeaways

  1. Tech that adapts to student’s style of learning and thinking
  2. Creation of immersive and compelling environments e.g video games
  3. Social networks to increase student interaction
  4. DOWNSIDE How to learn grit?

Life is a game, why can’t learning be too?

Would They Play? Would They Learn? Finding the Sweet Spot between Games and Learning

http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/instructional-design/play-learn-finding-sweet-spot-games-learning/#sthash.p3TlzLVM.dpuf

Thank you to Denver Craig from Think Education for posting this on Linkedin.

 

Sage on the stage or guide on the side?

An interesting Edudemic article on flipped online learning that states,

“In short, flipped online learning would involve a larger focus on the student producing the learning materials and having an online instructor be more of a ‘guide on the side’ as it were. Rather than watching videos and taking a quiz, you’d have a robust discussion, have students create projects to share with classmates, and generate more discussion out of that.”