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Still Asking the Wrong Questions About Technology
I read an interesting report today about “Taking Notes by Hand Benefits Recall, Researchers Find.” The basic point is that students that take lecture notes by hand do better on tests than students that...
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Why Design a xMOOC / cMOOC Hybrid? LTCA Theory
So a lot of interest in the earlier post about creating a dual-layer cMOOC/xMOOC, as well as some of the inevitable backlash. The biggest question rattling around seems to be “why?” Well, my first...
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Ed Tech Retro-Futurism
Every time I read someone’s tag line or bio that self-describes themselves as an “ed tech futurist”, I chuckle a little inside. Since time only seems to move forward (as far as we can tell), aren’t we...
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Instructional Design and the Search for the Golden Child
One of the things you quickly learn as an instructional designer is that you precariously straddle two worlds that don’t always like to interact: practical and theoretical. Most academic fields have...
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So You Think You Know Theory and Design?
Sometimes I want to create a TV game show based off of “Are you Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” called “So You Think You Know Theory and Design?” It would pull in a bunch of online instructors,...
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Non-Linear Instructional Design
A great Twitter conversation recently got me thinking about non-linear instructional design. Now, of course, we often look at instructional design itself as a non-linear process, but that is not what I...
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Metamodernist Instructional Design and the False Goal of Primacy in MOOCs
This has been an interesting year in the MOOC discussion realm, with everything from MOOC 4.0 to arguments about who controls the conversation about MOOC research. But a strain that has always seemed...
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Psuedo-Buzzword Soup: Metamodernism and Heutagogy
I learned a hard lesson this week: don’t tweet details about conference proposals before they get accepted. People will get excited about seeing the session, and then you might get rejected. Then you...
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Is It Really Possible to Re-do Ed Tech From Scratch?
Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris asked an interesting question at Hybrid Pedagogy a couple of days ago: “Imagine that no educational technologies had yet been invented — no chalkboards, no...
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Learning -agogy Overload
Ever wonder how many -agogies there are out there beyond pedagogy and andragogy? I did, and so far this is the full list that I can find (which I can’t seem to all find in one list anywhere). Pedagogy...
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Words That Don’t Work: Courses as Neutral Zones
Sometimes the words we choose to describe something just don’t quite work as well as we would like. Its not that they don’t work at all, its just that they fall short – and academics love to pick apart...
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Decreasing Design Presence
With the Humanizing Online Learning MOOC in full swing, I wanted to dig more into a topic that I tend to allude to at conference presentations. While educators often talk (rightly so) about increasing...
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Being a Human Shopper in a Digital Online Shopping Age
So with a new year, our research lab is going to focus on writing and setting goals for the upcoming year. Our main question at LINK Lab is “What does it mean to be human in a digital age?” I thought...
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Is Innovation Contextual or Absolute?
When discussing the concept of truth, many people will make the distinction between “truth” (lower case t) and “Truth” (upper case T), where “Truth” refers to ultimate truth that is true for all, and...
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Can the Student Innovate? An #OLCInnovate Reflection
The 2nd OLC Innovate conference is now over. I am sure there will be many reflections out there on various aspects of the conference. I hope to get to reflect on my presentation on learning pathways...
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“Creating Online Learning Experiences” Book is Now Available as an OER
Well, big news in the EduGeek Journal world. I have been heading up a team of people to work on new book that was released as an OER through PressBooks today: Creating Online Learning Experiences: A...
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What Does It Take to Make an -agogy? Dronagogy, Botagogy, and Education in a...
Several years ago I wrote a post that looked at every form of learning “-agogy” I could find. Every once in a while I think that I probably need to do a search to see if others have been added so I can...
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Updating Types of Interactions in Online Education to Reflect AI and Systemic...
One of the foundation concepts in instructional design and other parts of the field of education are the types of interaction that occur in the educational process online. In 1989, Michael G. Moore...
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Why Trust Google’s Algorithms When You Can Teach?
You have heard it said “If you can Google it, why teach it?”, but I want to ask “why trust Google’s algorithms when you can teach?” I Google things all the time, so I am not saying to stop using Google...
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Learning -Agogies Updated
A few years ago, I created a list of learning -agogies as a reference for myself and anyone else interested. I didn’t have time to finish it and left some of the non-epistemological -agogies defined....
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