Are you about to run your first Exam? Do you think you’ve finished setting it up, but you’re not 100% sure? Here is a checklist to help ensure that your exam is ready to go! Not sure how to start building an Exam? Check out this tutorial that walks you step-by-step through building a quiz: […]
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What is a Community of Practice? “Groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” – Wenger-Trayner, 2015 Communities of practice were first defined in 1991 by Lave & Wenger, and have grown in their popularity and application since […]
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The Maker Movement of the last decade gave rise to Maker Education and, now, Maker Pedagogy. Similar to most movements and trends, one can go back in history and note an abundance of precursors, such as apprenticeships, guilds, the sixteenth-seventeenth century Scientific Revolution, the 19th Century arts and crafts movement, vocational schools, and much more. […]
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According to the College Board, undergrads spend an average of about $1300 each year on books and supplies. Some textbooks can run upwards of $350 apiece, which can be prohibitively expensive for a student on a tight budget. To put it bluntly, students shouldn’t have to choose between books and food. Many schools and universities, […]
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You have probably seen or used a Google cardboard or another version of a virtual reality (VR) headset. Maybe you’ve gone skydiving, or taken a new look at Stranger Things, or put yourself into the space of The Displaced. In 10 Shots Across the Border, the filmmakers tell the story from two physical perspectives. In […]
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At the beginning of March, I was lucky enough to have the chance to go to the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas. The opening keynote was by Chris Emdin, who teaches at Columbia University. In his talk, he used the latest album from A Tribe Called Quest as the basis for a discussion on issues […]
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The Hearing Loss Association of America estimates that about 20% of Americans live with some degree of hearing loss, ranging from mild to profound. That’s 1 in 5 people. Schools often overlook mild cases of hearing loss, despite the affect they have on learners. We typically design classroom settings as single-plane or auditorium-style spaces […]
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I was excited last week when Sheridan told me about data.world. It is a social network for people who work with open datasets. This independent site and service encourages and supports individuals and groups who work with datasets to collaborate and share. Today we live, learn, and teach in a moment increasingly characterized by big, […]
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Very often showing students how to work through a problem will help them learn. Similarly, many faculty are most comfortable teaching when able to stand at a board and diagram solutions. On the other hand, each student learns at his or her own pace. In the past, this required compromise. No longer. CITL has added […]
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In an ideal world, we’d be guaranteed that academia could exist without the influence of any type of bias and that merit alone would be the basis of evaluation. It’s an unfortunate reality that bias does exist. (Articles like this one from The Chronicle have delved deeper into the debate surrounding the notion of unconscious […]
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