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…
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…
What Counts as Evidence?
Post coming soon!…
Writing Affective Objectives
The affective learning taxonomy is one that is often overlooked in our traditional educational models, and yet is absolutely essential…
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…
Writing Cognitive Objectives
In 1956 an educational psychologist, Benjamin Bloom, articulated a hierarchy (taxonomy) for understanding differing levels of cognition, starting with the…
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…
Information Architecture
You may be asking, “What is information architecture (IA), and how can it help us in our work of online…
Lifelong Learning
Educational theorists like Sir Kenneth Robinson have long called for a learning revolution that would better equip learners to live and work…
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…
Self-Directed Learning Processes
One positive consequence of the growth of SDL in contemporary educational settings has been a refocusing on the processes of…
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…
Self-Directed Learning
Self-directed learning (SDL) has gained significant momentum as a design priority across the varied educational landscapes, today. Although this growth…
Adult Learning – Part 2
Read Part 1 of Adult Learning on making connections. Learning Design Strategies Transmission – Daniel Pratt and Associates (2005) have…
Adult Learning – Part 1
Although theories of adult learning seemed to blossom in the 1960s, at least in the West, leading to learning designations…
Learner Experience (LX)
Learner experience (LX) is a relatively new term for, and a narrowing of a field of study originally called user…
Readiness to Learn
“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” – Winston Churchill Churchill’s quip reminds…