Teaching with Blogs
What are blogs? Blogs are social media platforms that let users share thoughts and opinions with a genuine, organic audience, allowing the blog writer to easily communicate with that audience. Blogs typically read…
What are blogs? Blogs are social media platforms that let users share thoughts and opinions with a genuine, organic audience, allowing the blog writer to easily communicate with that audience. Blogs typically read…
This article includes tips on designing and building a course. Allow enough time to carefully plan and revise content for a new course. Careful planning will make teaching easier and more enjoyable. Talk…
Concept maps help our brains take in information, mostly when there is visual information. The maps help us to see the big picture along with the connected and related data. They also help…
What is Problem-Based Learning (PBL)? PBL is a student-centered approach to learning that involves groups of students working to solve a real-world problem, quite different from the direct teaching method of a teacher…
Albert Bandura’s “Social Learning Theory” and Its Impact on Teachers and Learning Think back to your childhood. Do you remember learning to ride a bike, how to play checkers, and do simple addition…
Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is an innovative approach to education that integrates real-life and virtual instruction to maximize the efficacy of both. This teaching method is created by a team led by university professor…
Bloom’s Taxonomy offers a framework for categorizing educational goals that students are expected to attain as learning progresses. Learning objectives can be identified as the goals that should be achieved by a student at…
What is inclusive teaching and education? Inclusivity in the classroom is a key issue, as students come from a diverse range of backgrounds and bring a variety of learning styles, abilities, and experience…
What are Massive open online courses (MOOCs)? Millions of people are learning in thousands (more than 8,000) of MOOCs offered by prestigious universities (more than 700) worldwide. A MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is…
Although forms of online learning have been available since the 1990s, this type of learning has since become integral to most levels of education, since it can reach more students with greater ease…