by Catherine Man Here’s an idea to switch up the planning for your online course: Backwards Design. This is an approach to instructional design explained in detail by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe in their book, Understanding by Design (UbD). It’s a concept that seems counterintuitive at first because...
by David Dos Santos (This article specifically addresses the situation of enrolling a student in a Blackboard course section who has registered late and does not appear in the course roster when the semester begins. Enrolling course observers in the Blackboard course will be covered in another article.) Generally...
By Danny Wu “Hey, we’re meeting at the library at three o’clock to take the exam together, there’s four of us”, replied a student on the phone. Minutes later the student and classmates enter a study room at their college’s library to begin taking an online exam together to...
Link to “How to Be a Better Online Teacher Advice Guide” by Flower Darby. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2019. “What you will find here is advice on how to make your online pedagogy as effective and satisfying as the in-person version, including: -10 essential principles and practices of...
by Eric Ritholz Several years ago I started promoting the use of the Cornell Method to students as well as professionals because of its many redeeming qualities. It looks simple, and yet it brings lateral thinking, visual, and kinesthetic factors into the process. If you are not familiar go...
Instructors who are teaching courses on Blackboard in the Fall 2019 semester will notice some important changes to the structure of the course template, reflected in the revised navigation menu. At first this change may appear cosmetic, but actually the changes are in response to the structure of Blackboard...
We are very excited to share that the book co-authored by our Director, Carlos Guevara, Prof. Kate Wolfe and Prof. Kate Lyons, and with contributions from Prof. Jacqueline DiSanto and several esteemed faculty and members of the EdTech team was published on August 16, 2019. “The Development of Educational...
by Catherine Man It is a perennial problem to solve for teachers everywhere: How do I adapt my methods for each group I teach? Every group or class is different. The nuances of the problem become more complex when variables such as age, ability range, and current culture are...
by Eric Ritholz Why is it that sometimes, even though you have found the right exercise to illustrate a point in your lessons, it doesn’t hit the mark and result in that moment of discovery from a student that we are looking for? Even an activity that has been...
By Danny Wu “Congratulations, Class of 2019, we wish you the best of luck in your feature endeavors” said the CEO of a tech boot camp where 30 students have just received their software engineering certifications. More and more we are seeing the growing trend of people enrolling...