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A collection of 46 posts

Online learning

Can hyflex be made to work?

Hyflex is a toxic brand for many college faculty, but it is still a good idea on paper. What needs to be in place to make it work?

Higher Education

On ceding power to learners

Higher education faces a choice about whether or not it will deliver an empowered educational experience.

Grading

Moving on from rigor

If "rigor" is a meaningless term then what should we be using? What are we really talking about?

Mastery Grading

Specifications grading and "help"

Can students in a specs grading setting do work without help? Do we care?

Academia

Doing what you can, with what you've got

A plea and some suggestions for breaking the loop of fear and hopelessness heading into Fall 2021.

Productivity

How to handle Inbox Infinity

How I'd handle an email inbox that's too full even to contemplate.

Teaching

Building Fall 2021: Discrete Structures

A work-in-progress report on my Fall 2021 classes, one month before launch.

Academia

Ungrading: A 3x3x3 reflection

Ungrading is gaining traction in K12 and higher education. Here's what I learned from a recent edited volume on this concept.

Academia

Entering the feedback loop: My origin story with alternative grading

Sometimes all it takes to get started with a new idea is just to start and then follow through.

Academia

Two important questions about Inbox Zero

The Inbox Zero concept elicits a broad range of responses from academics, mostly negative. Here are the two most important questions we can ask about it.

Academia

Working in context

So you made a Next Actions list. How do you decide which actions to do? The constraints on those actions give us a clue.

Academia

Working mindfully with projects

How do you give appropriate attention to things you want to do, that require multiple steps?

Academia

How much research has been done on flipped learning? The 2021 update

Updating the annual data on the number of peer-reviewed publications on flipped learning, this time with the numbers for 2020.

Balance

Clarifying what you captured

Anything that we capture in our attention needs clarification about what it means to us. Here's a process for doing that.

Technology

How to add captions to videos (including different languages)

I avoided captioning videos for a long time out of sheer laziness, but it turns out it's not that hard with the right workflow.

Academia

Introducing the Summer Challenge

This summer I'm starting a weekly series focused on building habits, practices, and mindsets to inoculate against burnout and exhaustion in the Fall.

Academia

How to write learning objectives

Writing clear, measurable learning objectives for lesson seems simple; it isn't. Here are some steps that can make it easier.

Academia

The semester that was, Part 2: A 3x3x3 reflection on Modern Algebra

Another 3x3x3 reflection on my Winter courses, this time my Modern Algebra class.

Academia

The semester that was: A 3x3x3 reflection on Calculus

What I learned, what surprised me, and what I still don't know about the Calculus class that just finished up.

Academia

Is flipping an online course possible? (Throwback)

A throwback post from 2015, wrestling with the possibility of flipped learning in an online setting.

Academia

Using OKRs for better goal setting

The concept of OKRs (objectives and key results) is a healthier and more productive approach to goal-setting than traditional methods.

Academia

Clients, not customers

Students are not customers but rather clients, involved with us in a creative process which involves the students in a fundamental way.

Academia

What can higher education learn from the business world?

A recap of a talk to Student Affairs professionals about what makes a good working culture.

GTD

How GTD has helped me during the pandemic

Getting Things Done (GTD) has played a big role in helping me not just survive but sort of thrive during the last year.

Academia

How do you get students to buy in to self-teaching?

How do you get students to accept and work within a framework that stresses self-teaching?