What Stuck After the Online Learning Boom: Reflections of an ‘Online Learning Historian’
I sometimes joke that I’m an “online learning historian.” I’ve been in this space long enough to remember when “distance learning” meant a textbook in the post and maybe, if you were lucky, a CD tucked into the cover. When I studied this way myself, there was no real support, no one to ask, “Am […]
Designing Learning for Homo Prospectus
Why do our learning outcomes fail to inspire students? Why do students not immediately connect with the subjects that we know to be valuable? What can we do to change this? When faculty and I have worked with design learning materials, they are often good at writing outcomes based on what a person is expected […]