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 […]
I had the opportunity to attend COHERE’s 2013 conference in at Kwantlen in Richmond, with the theme, “Open Resources, Open Courses: Their Impact on Blended and Online Learning”. It was fantastic: a measured look at the themes of open resources and open learning with opportunities for breadth during one afternoon of break-out sessions, and opportunities […]
I recommend this book, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change especially for those who are in or who care about education but are not education professionals, eg. managers, vice-presidents, etc.. Thomas and Seely Brown nicely and concisely encapsulate current thinking and research without once mentioning distributed cognition, […]
Changing Beliefs and Behaviour Through Experience-Taking G.F. Kaufman & L.K. Libby Finally, some research to support what every fiction-fan knows, that readers will live vicariously through the narratives of well-developed lead characters. “This immersive phenomenon of simulating the mindset and persona of a protagonist is what we refer to as experience-taking. Through experience-taking, readers lose […]