As an instructor, it might be tempting to measure the success of student visits by how quickly you can provide a correct answer—but excelling at this particular metric might come at the cost of a student building their own ability to answer similar questions in the future. The 5G framework ((The 5G framework draws its […]
Category: Educational Development
Playing with the episteme of educational development at STLHE 2011
photo credit: jef safi (writing) I’ve spent the past three days in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a participant at the 2011 iteration of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) conference (theme: From Here to the Horizon: Diversity and Inclusive Practice in Higher Education). It has been, in a word, great. This educational […]
TLI Presentation: Microblogging in the Classroom
Microblogging in the Classroom on Prezi
April Fools, Comic Sans and Learning
photo credit: eanur0 With Comic Sans (a font, for those not in typographic know) taking centre stage in many of today‘s web-related April Fools jokes, it’s worth highlighting some research that might have you re-thinking your derision of the font. Earlier this year, researchers published finding that suggest that “information in hard-to-read fonts was better […]
Curating an on-line academic presence
photo credit: pavila1 As part of ePortfolio week at the University of Guelph, I co-facilitated a session today on teaching dossiers and ePortfolios with my colleagues Janet Wolstenholme and Jason Thompson. My part of the session was to talk about the possibilities out there when thinking about an on-line presence to communicate about your academic […]