Rethinking Lectures, Learning, and Engagement

­­­I have, for quite a long time, not been a big fan of lectures as a primary way of fostering learning and the positive transformations […]

Instructors, Be Careful About Joking Around: Science Students Find Topics About Own Identity Offensive

Imagine students sitting in a college classroom where attendance is required. The instructor is describing how the body works to maintain homeostasis and then the […]

Focus on Panopto: Notes and Bookmarks

Recorded lectures are a useful resource for students and Panopto offers some great tools to help make the most of them. In this post we […]

Focus on Panopto: Quizzes and Discussions

Panopto brings some superb features for improving engagement with your students, two of those features are Quizzes and Discussions which will be the focus of […]

Training An Employee- Truths and Fallacies

There are several types and techniques of training to facilitate the employees in doing their jobs effectively and efficiently. The need of training depends on […]

Active lectures

So as per last week’s blog post, recording your lectures is beneficial to students and should not negatively impact on lecture attendance but what will […]

Another Clueless Professor blames the technology instead of themselves.

In the Clifford Stoll/Daniel Willingham tradition please add Joelle Renstrom, writer and instructor,...

5 Awesome Tools to Engage & Gamify Talks

IMAGINE Imagine you are required to give a one-hour keynote talk to around 500 people at an International e-Learning Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. This is […]

Are lectures/sessions worth it?

Ideas for my waffles come from a variety of sources, sometimes it is something someone says to me, or something I have heard. Other times […]

Is There a Lecture Learning Gap?

Annie Murphy Paul’s recent blog, Are College Lectures Unfair?  gives us another look at the weaknesses of the lecture format as a teaching method. She reminds […]

Is There a Lecture Learning Gap?

Annie Murphy Paul’s recent blog, Are College Lectures Unfair?  gives us another look at the weaknesses of the lecture format as a teaching method. She reminds […]

Your Secret Recipe to Engage?

CLICK HERE How do I post on the Wall? Created with Padlet Thanks for considering to participate! You are awesome anyway! DESIGNING ENGAGING PRESENTATIONS In […]

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