Catégorie: Pédagogie
In defence of the three-minute thesis
By Martha Radice. Making us proud to be part of academia. Hot on the heels of tedx talks and Pecha Kucha nights, there’s a new knowledge mobilization craze sweeping the world of higher education: the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. It started in Australia and in 2011...
Why schools should stop using exit exams
By Valerie Strauss . Here’s a piece on exit exams from P.L. Thomas, an associate professor of
education at Furman University in South Carolina. He edited the 2013
book “ Becoming and Being a Teacher, ” and wrote the 2012 book, “ Ignoring...
A Pedagogy’s Punctuated Equilibrium
B y George David Clark . The first time I wrote a statement of teaching philosophy, I had just
entered a doctoral program and was participating in a mandatory
professional-development workshop. We read a handful of model statements
by faculty members in the department and...
Managing Risk
B y Richard Wilson . When I first started seeing the phrase “enterprise risk management” pop
up in higher education literature, my reaction was one of skepticism. It
seemed to me yet another idea of limited value that someone had created
a label for,...
The Growth of the Hybrid Meeting
By Joshua Kim . We are all trying to figure out the best way to include remote
colleagues in our team meetings. A number of factors have come together
to drive the use of online tools in meetings where some people are
meeting face-to-face in one room, while other colleagues...
Exploring the relationship between learning strategies and learning outcomes in inquiry-based online resources
Student learning strategies in online learning environments are known to be an important factor contributing to learning outcomes. Active learning strategies, a key element of constructivist learning theory, are considered to be particularly valuable, and this has been used as an argument for...
Investigating university teachers’ design practices
This presentation reports on qualitative research into how Australian university teachers approach the routine work of designing the subjects they teach. The results reveal how academics conceive their design work, the basis for the decisions they make and the resources they draw on. The...
Why You Need a Ped.D
B y Brent E. Betit . Mention “teacher training” to the typical college professor and his eyebrow will raise like the wing of a raptor. Talons may follow. College professors are experts in various disciplines—political science, mathematics, the biology of...
Does Not Compute
By Zack Budryk . A new report out from the National Council of Teachers of English
criticizes the practice of using machine scoring for writing
assessments.
"Machine Scoring Fails the Test ,"
NCTE’s new position statement, argues that...
Is the internet making universities defunct?
B y Saad Rizvi and Katelyn Donnelly . The model of higher education that marched triumphantly across the globe in the second half of the 20th century is broken. Thanks to advances in technology and connectivity, all the key elements of a traditional university...
How not to lighten up your research
By Janice Tibbetts. The three-minute thesis competition isn’t the best way to learn to communicate. As a recent master’s student at Carleton University, I was mystified by an email that popped up in my inbox this winter advertising the three-minute thesis competition, an event...
The flipped classroom is not about “throughput”
By Robert Talbert . The Washington Post reports this morning
(apologies if this is behind a paywall) about how some universities are
(finally?) moving from in-class lecture as the basis for their “large
lecture” courses to the flipped or inverted classroom. Says...
Revisiting Your Learning Management System
By Anastasia Salter . This month I conducted a workshop on “ Thinking Outside the Course Management System ” as part of a series on “ Networked Learning ” we’re running at the University of Baltimore .
Many of us at ProfHacker...
The Real Precipice
B y Richard Holmgren . Although massive open online courses have been gathering substantial
recent attention, future histories of education will likely only note
them as a harbinger of change or transitional step into an educational
model that is organized...
Pedagogía y Prácticas Emancipadoras: Actualidades de Paulo Freire
México: IPN, UNESCO, UADY y Secretaría de Educación de Yucatán, 2012. AL LIBRO DE FRANÇOISE GARIBAY Y MICHEL SÉGUIER (Coords.). Comentarios leídos durante la presentación del libro en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Ajusco,...
My radical pedagogical program
By Adam Kotsko. First, you need to read good books. To get the most out of those books, you need to talk about them with other people who are also trying to work their way through them. In addition, you need to write about them in a disciplined and focused way. Both of these tasks require...
Ithaka Says Hybrid Courses as Good as Traditional Model
By Julia Lawrence . Ithaka S+R has released the results of a randomized study comparing
outcomes between a traditional teaching approach at the university level
and university courses using a “hybrid” methodology of machine-guided
instruction, developed...
Learning to Teach online
Graham Attwell just posted this video and I thought it was interesting to share it [ ... also for my own sake, as note taking kind of a thing ] because it stresses some very important points regarding the facilitation of learning.
If we believe that learning is anchored in...
New Guidelines Call for Broad Changes in Science Education
By JUSTIN GILLIS . Educators unveiled new guidelines on Tuesday that call for sweeping changes in the way science is taught in the United States — including, for the first time, a recommendation that climate change be taught as early as middle school....
Intel on Adaptive Learning
By Paul Fain . Adaptive learning is hot. The technology, loosely defined as
data-driven tools that can help professors mold coursework around
individual students’ abilities, is developing at a dizzying pace. And
colleges have been hard-pressed to keep up with...
