It’s tough when you’re helping to create knowledge and not just consume it.

Dear Student: Yes, I’m making you use technology more than you’ve had to before and it is pushing you out of your comfort zone. Yes, I could have you just submit your papers in hard copy or email them to me and not use all “of these digital tools.” And, that group project I’m making…

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Hack? Make? Connected? Open? Walls? What the HECK is that? Now I see the light.

This summer I had the opportunity to attend the DML Workshop at UC Irvine which had the primary goal of creating a course about connected open courses.  If you’re lost because you’ve not really heard of this idea before, here’s a secret (which I eventually outed at the workshop)… I was too!  I sat there for the…

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Some students may not need to participate to learn… WAIT? WHAT?!!

Recently, I read about a study titled Learning or Lurking? Tracking the ‘Invisible’ Online Student by Michael Beaudoin that found that while students who interact a lot in online classes perform well in the class, those students who interacted the least performed higher than the moderate interaction group.  This could leads to a conclusion that some…

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