A recent email from a former classmate reminded me I should update my academic portfolio. It also made me want to figure out how many…
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Category: Education
Last week was the second week of classes and the first real week of the semester. Both classes I’m taking are online and asynchronous, so…
Last week I took a week off from work to mentally prepare myself for going back to school, which started this week. I didn’t do…
Like many people who enjoy reading, I have lots of books in my to-be-read pile. It seems like it’s rare that I get a chance…
When I started taking graduate classes in Instructional Systems Technology (IST) last fall, we were told pretty early on, that IST is a subset of…
How apropos. In last week’s post, I commented on how the chapter I was reading could do with an update to reflect educational changes as…
The readings for this week covered the history of instructional technology, and my first thought when I saw this on the syllabus was, “Didn’t we…
This may come as a surprise to some, but education, instruction, and learning aren’t synonyms of each other. Those concepts have quite a bit of…
In taking classes about education, I suppose it’s inevitable that I’ll read something that describes the classes I’ve been taking. Sort of a meta-education. Thus…
This week’s readings dealt with two different concepts of learning that arrived on the scene some time after behaviorism. These are cognitive theory and constructivism.…