TechEdTips
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The only three classroom rules I’ve ever needed
(Respectfully and resourcefully stolen from my mother many years ago, and responsibly cited here)
(via revolutionizeed)
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You are what you learn
The new Lore profile is way more personal and exciting, allowing learners and teachers to show who they are, what they’ve done, and what they aspire to do. We’re loving this feature as we see users put their own spin on it and getting to know our amazing users even better.
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Believing in the students who appear not to care -
Dr. Adam Saenz in this blog post recalls his early life as a troubled student from a single-parent, low-income home in a crime-filled Texas neighborhood. He describes how letters from two teachers prompted him to take the first step — a single college course — on the road to advanced degrees and a career as a counselor and consulting school psychologist. Saenz reminds teachers that among their students this year may be someone just like him — a student with potential who needs someone to believe in him.
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“I feel we need to do more Assessment FOR Learning because students are so afraid of making mistakes. They can’t understand that it is by making mistakes that we learn. They are so afraid to make a mistake or try something new or radical that they just want some directions to follow so that they can get full marks.” -
5 Tips On Developing a Quality Elearning Course Yup.
TIP 2: Quality is meeting mutual expectations – The [student] should be educated about what to expect from an eLearning course, and also on the key features of a good eLearning course. For example:
- The course should have ’What’s In It For Me (WIFM)’, so that the learner is motivated to take the course.
- Learning objectives should be clearly defined and achieved.
- Course navigation should be easy and user friendly, with a help page to guide the learner.
- Depending on the various types of content, appropriate learning strategies should be used.
- Audio, video, visual and text should be balanced for easy learning.
- Each learning object should have a formative assessment to reinforce learning.
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How Do We Make Online Education More Than Video Lectures?
We should spend less time at universities filling our students’ minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.” (Daphne Koller)
In the past year there’s been a real boom in online education platforms, but what sets these models apart from the average lecture-on-demand model? According to Stanford professor Daphne Koller, whose startup Coursera launched in February and has 640,000 students from 190 countries, if they really want to reach the masses, online learning platforms have to provide more than just video lectures.
Indeed, in this TED talk, Koller shares how Coursera has tried to figure out how to bring a “real course experience” to the table. Doing so, says Koller, makes it possible to offer a “top quality education to everyone around the world for free.” That would go a long way toward establishing “education as a fundamental human right,” making lifelong learning the norm, and paving the way for a new era of innovation.
SOURCE: GOOD.IS
