I got the invoice today to re-register ‘learningdesign.ca’ for another 2 years, and oops, where did those 2 years go? I know where they went – busy on the curriculum project I started in June 2016 for trades harmonization. Getting out my credit card, I wondered if perhaps I should just shut this down. There’s […]
In November of 2015 I attended the very excellent 3-day Open Education Conference in Vancouver. Among the many lines of thought I encountered and learned about, I was surprised that there was a rather uniform assumption around reified knowledge as a commodity of exchange. There was a lot of talk around how to make the […]
Here’s what I did with one set of trade instructors to turn competencies into learning outcomes: Re-translating the program outline We started with the provincial program outline for their trade (owned by the BC Industry Training Authority, here’s an example for Carpenter). This outline is deceiving: it is originally intended to communicate performance competencies for […]
There’s buzz growing around competency-based learning and something called “competency-based pedagogy”. Much of it appears muddled, particularly when someone wants to throw in a technology to enable this “competency-based pedagogy”. Perhaps it’s important to make sure we are all speaking the same language. Fallacy 1: Competencies are equivalent to learning outcomes Fallacy 2: A series […]
It was a great day Friday at this first symposium on teaching and learning practice put on by bccampus. A great deal of small scale inquiry is going on, and I think that in this field, progress is best measured in increments of the individual practitioner deliberately inquiring into her own practice. I did on […]