Testing designs, testing software, testing documents. We need to teach students that testing is part of all product development. Instead, we focus on details that…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Category: Teaching
Pedagogy and general teaching with (or without) modern technology.
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
Yes, I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, traveling with my children from Western PA to the California Coast. While we were in California,…
Earlier this semester, there was a “glitch” with the Blackboard shell for my writing course. I had spent hours and hours uploading content, organizing the…
Online education is an accommodation to life’s realities. For years I denied that online education was in many ways inferior to physical campuses. But, now…
Back to school means back to Blackboard. My frustration with most learning management system (LMS) platforms is well known. The administration of a class, depending…
Back to school means back to the battles with Blackboard (I’ve posted on that plenty of times). Even if BB was the perfect learning management…
Notice that technical courses and courses that were “automated” had higher completion rates. New study of low MOOC completion rates | Inside Higher Ed The…
Computers have changed writing education, but many writing teachers wonder if technology is now turning into a threat. Too many politicians, administrators, and non-profit foundations…
As readers of my blogs know, I’m never opposed to using technology when it is an effective tool. I am opposed to the blind embrace…