Instructional Design
- Creating Rich Learning Experiences Even When Class is Cancel...
In my corner of the country, we experienced an unusually harsh winter which resulted in many class sessions being canceled due to school closures. Our faculty, and likely other groups of faculty in our region, received an email message that stated: If you cancel your face-to-face session, I expect [...] - What’s Going on Behind the Blank Stare?...
Regardless of our subject area, we’ve all had moments where some students appear to hang on every word, gobbling up our messages, images, graphs, and visuals with robust engagement. Within those very same classes, however, there will be a degree of confusion, perplexed looks, or at worst, the [...] - Too Much Jargon: A Barrier to Learning?...
The language of our disciplines is complex—it has to be. What we study is specific and detailed, and it needs to be described with language that precisely captures essence and nuance. However, for students being introduced to our disciplines for the first time, it’s all new language, an [...]
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