Why lectures are dead (or soon will be)
As part of my open textbook on Teaching in a Digital Age, I am working my way through theories of learning and methods of...
The nature of knowledge and the implications for teaching
Teaching in a Digital Age
I've now just published Chapter 2 of my open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age.
Chapter 1 looks at the fundamental changes...
Are universities teaching the skills needed in a knowledge-based economy?
I've been on holiday the last two and a half weeks, but also doing some writing for my open textbook on teaching in a...
How problem-based learning can help develop innovation skills
Hoidn, S. and Kärkkäinen, K. (2014) Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education A Literature Review on the Effectiveness of Problem-based Learning and of Teaching Behaviours...
Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help
Avvisati, F., Jacotin, G., and Vincent-Lacrin, S. (2013) Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tells Us, Tuning Journal for Higher...
MOOCs, Norway, and the ecology of digital learning
© Ron Niebrugge, 2013 MOOCs are just one species in the online digital forest - and a big and clumsy oneEarlier this week I...
Improving productivity in online learning: can we scale ‘the learning that matters most’?
The story so far
This is a continuation of the discussion on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ Previous posts in this series include:
Technology,...
Alternative ways to improve productivity through online learner-content interaction
In this post, I attempt to examine what Sanjay Sharma of MIT calls 'the magic of the campus', how at least some of this...
Conference on science education at Western University
I was at the Western Conference on Science Education on July 10-11. I gave a a public lecture on designing teaching for 21st century...
MIT, learning technologies, and developing countries: lessons in technology transfer
This week I spent three days at the MIT LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium) conference in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the theme: 'Realizing the Dream:...