I came back last week from an event put on by the John N. Gardner organization, a three-day conference on promoting student success in gateway courses.
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Why won’t my faculty listen? Risks and rewards of change
Posted in Course Redesign, Higher Education, and Trends and Change
Recently I did something I haven’t for many years: sat in as a student in a face-to-face course.
Should learning analytics be like email? Teaching routines and why we need small analytics
Posted in Higher Education, Ideas and Resources, and Technology
Ed tech insiders are probably used to articles rife with warnings, concerns and other worries, especially around the issue of commercialization.
On the amazing longevity of the learning styles notion, and what cognitive science has to say about it
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, and K-12
I had a conversation the other day with NAU colleague Larry Gallagher that inspired me to return to something I’d been thinking and writing about a while back: the astonishing persistence of the learning styles notion.
Last semester, I had the opportunity to do something completely new to me: give the address at NAU’s fall commencement ceremony.