Today the BCcampus Online book club was talking about Chapter 1 of How Learning Works, which is about students’ prior knowledge. Some colleagues shared stories illustrating how instructors’ failure to… Read more »
In May, we were extremely grateful for Monique Gray Smith’s wonderful closing keynote at the 2018 Festival of Learning. Her talk had us thinking, laughing, crying, and on our feet applauding folks… Read more »
I have tried this out a couple times now, and it seems to work well for those new to designing adult learning. Here is the general… Read more »
I’m co-facilitating an online course right now about online facilitation. Our participants are a group of educators who are learning to do what they already do (teach) in an online… Read more »
I am still trying *not* to think about assessment in cck09 very much. When you “do” instructional design, there is the persistent unquestioned assumption that outcomes + assessment = good… Read more »
So the idea of Instructional Un-design seems to be one some/many of us are kicking around. I really appreciated Plain_Gillian & Robert’s follow up comments, and it gave me an… Read more »
I have been rolling this idea around for a long time, ever since I first encountered the idea of PLEs. If there is no “course” (in the traditional sense), if… Read more »
So I’m taking this course, which is so awesome on so many levels. I can’t help but reflect on it through the lenses of “Instructional Designer” and “Learner”. Stuff I’ve… Read more »