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Designing for Learning

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Designing Good Discussion Questions

In another post we introduced Bloom’s Taxonomy, specifying how these categories of understanding might help us as we design discussion questions or…
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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open learning represents a growing facet in global education today, and as such highlights one consequence of the growth of self-directed…
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What Counts as Evidence?

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Writing Affective Objectives

The affective learning taxonomy is one that is often overlooked in our traditional educational models, and yet is absolutely essential…
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Writing Behavioral Objectives

Second, O’Donnell’s subtle admonition that researchers explore how the medium of online education might be “artfully [exploited] in its own right,” [2] has…
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Writing Cognitive Objectives

In 1956 an educational psychologist, Benjamin Bloom, articulated a hierarchy (taxonomy) for understanding differing levels of cognition, starting with the…
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Communities of Practice

Etienne Wenger and William Snyder claim that “although communities of practice have been around for centuries” the use of “the term [is…
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Information Architecture

You may be asking, “What is information architecture (IA), and how can it help us in our work of online…
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Lifelong Learning

Educational theorists like Sir Kenneth Robinson have long called for a learning revolution that would better equip learners to live and work…
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Transformative Learning

Although ideas surrounding transformative learning within formal academic settings have traditionally been associated with Jack Mezirow’s theory from the 1970s, the idea…
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Self-Directed Learning Processes

One positive consequence of the growth of SDL in contemporary educational settings has been a refocusing on the processes of…
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Self-Directed Learning Skills

Your online design can offer one pathway in the development of self-directed learning (SDL) skills for emerging leaders who will…
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Self-Directed Learning

Self-directed learning (SDL) has gained significant momentum as a design priority across the varied educational landscapes, today. Although this growth…
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Adult Learning – Part 2

Read Part 1 of Adult Learning on making connections. Learning Design Strategies Transmission – Daniel Pratt and Associates (2005) have…
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Adult Learning – Part 1

Although theories of adult learning seemed to blossom in the 1960s, at least in the West, leading to learning designations…
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Learner Experience (LX)

Learner experience (LX) is a relatively new term for, and a narrowing of a field of study originally called user…
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Readiness to Learn

“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill Churchill’s quip reminds…