What is feedback? Wikipedia indicates that “feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself.” This definition may appear at first … Read More
Asking how we (the instructor) can get students to learn what we want them to learn is a flawed perspective. It has an air of authoritarianism on the part of the instructor, which leaves the student as a passive recipient … Read More
Cognitive presence, with its triggering event, exploration and integration, remind me of Jean Piaget’s concepts of assimilation and accommodation (which is a topic I cover in my courses). While Piaget focused on the cognitive processes of infants, it is highly … Read More
Vacations and leisure reading seems like a thing of childhood these days. Partially because life has been so busy, but also because the focus of my life has changed. No longer are vacations about being is a specific location, and … Read More