Online learning is a highly engaging format. Most students are immediately stimulated by an asynchronous format that places them at the centre of their learning journey. The range of multimedia resour...
The Flipped Classroom is becoming a serious alternative to the traditional approach to education and is spreading in more schools across the world. Instead of going to class to listen to the teacher’s...
The ability to recognize, identify and manage our own emotions and the emotions of others is called Emotional Intelligence (EQ). As a psychological concept EQ gained traction in the 1990s with a numbe...
The first time I saw a floppy disk in action I was flabbergasted. You could save pictures of kittens on it, and then go to a different computer, insert it in, and it would display the same picture of ...
It is easy to forget, amid the near mania associated with college admissions and acceptance, that many students do not have the aptitude or indeed funding to attend college, and will need to work dire...
This post has been updated on July 13, 2020. We’re almost 17 years into the 21st Century but the educational system seems like it's not. The 21st Century student and their learning needs are on everyo...
Seriously, you can’t. Try as you might, you’ll sooner or later need to consider it. Sooner, rather than later. Unless you already do, of course. What is the TPACK framework? For those of you lost in a...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. In this final post of the mini series we'll explore the technologies available to help turn your face-to-face (F2F) class into an online course. The firs...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. In the previous post on this topic we looked at a few preparatory steps that you should take in order to prepare your objectives and plan for how the onl...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. So you’ve decided to make the leap and convert your face-to-face (F2F) class into an online course. A daunting job, even for the most tech-literate and m...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a broad range of disorders that include autism and Asperger’s syndrome. Children with ASD typically struggle with verbal and nonverbal communication, social interacti...
A doctor’s job is to save lives. We like our species and we’re not really fond of death. An architect’s job is to build houses. So we have a safe place to live and bring up children. A teacher’s job i...
“Self-directed learning” is a major catch-phrase of 21st Century educationalists, and undeniably a critical skill in the labor markets of the future. The modern world of work demands that people have ...
What schools can learn from a simple tailor What does tailoring have to do with education? Nothing much would be an average answer, but I beg to differ. And the following story will make my case. You ...
The e-learning landscape is a continuum of different instructional designs meant to adapt to individual student needs. This is where scenario-based learning comes in, where learners are immersed in re...
This post has been updated on January 23 2020. Online education remains a key response to the documented shortcomings of K-12 education. There can be no doubt that the sheer volume of solutions and op...
