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…
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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.…
Since starting work on my master’s degree, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about Second Life, the online virtual world that once seemed to…