Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteNote to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education. This isn’t news. I’ve been doing this for decades. Not long after I started teaching, I came to realize that a good way to … Continue reading

Future Work Skills 2020 ~ repost from Stephen’s Web

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteA well-written report from The Apollo Research Institute Thanks to Stephen for bringing this to our attention (again). Future Work Skills 2020 ~ Stephen’s Web. Here’s a direct link to the report.   Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading

The Problem with Taxonomies in Education

Approximate Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been following a discussion on one of the education forums that is discussing the utility of Bloom’s Taxonomy, and others. There are complaints that Bloom’s is out of date, that we know so much more now than we did … Continue reading

Student evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteStudent evaluations of teaching don’t correlate with learning gains « Computing Education Blog. Mark Guzdial comments on a post made on (LISTSERV 16.0 – AERA-L Archives.) by Richard Hake, who disagrees with the popular (especially among administrators) notion that student … Continue reading

Frankencode and Other Writing

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesStudents, Reading and Writing – ProfHacker – The Chronicle of Higher Education. A former student of mine once coined a phrase that he used to describe the phenomenon whereby students take bits of code from various other programs and stitch … Continue reading

Academic Travesties – Open Access Publishing

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesI got ANOTHER invitation to publish an article the other day – this time it was a call for book chapters. I get quite a few of these, as I’m sure others do too. Personalized invitations are always flattering, but … Continue reading

Pseudoteaching

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minute[PT] Pseudoteaching: MIT Physics | Action-Reaction. Here’s a lovely label I’ve been wanting for years. Pseudoteaching is something you realize you’re doing after you’ve attempted a lesson which from the outset looks like it should result in student learning, but … Continue reading

Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutePublic LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers. This is an interesting post on decisions made by some universities regarding which LMS to choose. Thanks to Rod Corbett for putting this in my path. I must say that I found Moodle pretty … Continue reading