Warning: Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife. This article uses the F‑word.
Every so often, I go visit this website for inspiration: MotherFuckingWebsite.com
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This is a motherfucking website. And it’s fucking perfect. Seriously, what the fuck else do you want?
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I’ve been through a few LMS evaluation processes, and I’ve assisted others via Quora.com and commenters on my blog. One thing I’m always amazed by is how very smart people fail to focus on the right things when evaluating an LMS.
The best way I know to avoid the common pitfalls in an LMS evalu...
One of the thrilling features of the Iron Man movies is the idea that Tony Stark can step into a mechanized robot suit and control it as if he were just moving his body naturally. The suit is expertly designed to understand his movements in real time and seamlessly amplify them to give him superhuma...
A friend reminded me of the site Spurious Correlations, which shows absurd “relationships” between data that couldn’t possibly be related– though it’s fun to think that it is.
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In recent years, the mainstream has largely gotten the message that learning to code is an essential 21st Century skill. The many great free online courses that teach you to code make it easier than ever to build marketable skills in the computer language of your choice. However, there are man...
Promoting Interaction in Your Assignments – Broadband from Samuel Merritt U Academic Tech on Vimeo.
Do you wish you could make one change in your course that would increase student engagement and boost your course evaluations? Research shows that courses with high rates of in...
_I was recently asked to email a friend‐of‐a‐friend, a librarian who was asked to do some Instructional Design in Canvas LMS. I’m reprinting my response in case it can benefit any other education/information p...
Response to The Trouble with Online College, NY Times
I think this article is right on the money about the ch...
2011 brought us the buzzword craze of “gamification” in education, or the quest to make learning online more like a video game. Inspired by FourSquare’s achievement badges as a way of motivating users to check in to l...
A colleague recently asked me if I could explain the distinction between open source and proprietary learning management systems, especially as it might affect a K‑12 school looking at the best kind of LMS to implement today. She wanted to know how schools assess...
