Pedagogy

How to Decide What is Need to Know and What is Nice to Know for your Learners

How to Combine Active Learning Methods within a Lecture to Promote Interactivity and Engagement

A Good Lecture is an Active Learning Experience

A Semester of Teaching Presence

The fall semester is just around the corner! A new semester is a fresh start and I get a chance to think about starting with the basics. Usually these basics for me are the presences from the Community of Inquiry model: cognitive presence, social presence, and teaching…

That’s Not a Career Portfolio — But That’s Good

Building a professional portfolio into your class sounds like a great idea, but what you want is probably a learning portfolio instead.

Mental Health Week — UDL: not just for physical barriers

When it comes to talking about how to accommodate our learners, it’s easy to come up with scenarios and examples for students who need accommodations or redesigns for physical barriers. This student is blind, how can we facilitate…

Gamification: Too Much Candy Crush, Not enough D&D

It happened again. I ended up attending another conference session that turned to a shallow look at gamification that likely does more harm than good.

Presence and Distance

I got a different sort of package in my mail this Valentine’s day.

Missing the Points: Let’s talk Gamification

One topic I’ve been seeing come up more and more at conferences is gamification…