Preamble In the modern world of trades education, technology is key. The days of manual production have predominantly passed, and computerized machinery and processes are vital to ensure success in the trades. From the digitization to computerization of machinery, companies… Continue Reading →
Preamble I have been pursuing a cross curricular inquiry-based learning framework in my industrial technology courses for the last half of a decade. I have seen the level of student engagement, craftsmanship, creativity, and skills learned all increase at an… Continue Reading →
Preamble Distance learning is becoming more prevalent in the world. However, education that is not face to face comes at the cost of a loss of sense of community, and reduced instructor to peer, and peer to peer relationships. This… Continue Reading →
What A great deal of academic publishing is controlled by a few dominant publishing companies. According to couture (2017) “five giants – Elsevier, SpringerNature, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Sage – which, through mergers and acquisitions in the interest of… Continue Reading →
Preamble As education evolves it is imperative that students around the world are included in public education. Distance learning is one of the methods that can help maintain this inclusivity. This blog seeks to examine the benefits of distance learning… Continue Reading →
What To be successful as an educational framework, open education needs to have resources that are free, accessible, and that contain information that is on par with that of post secondary or vocational training. According to Friesen (2009) the 2002… Continue Reading →
Ipsa scientia potestas est Francis Bacon’s Meditationes Sacrae (1597) What Throughout the history of open and distributed learning, one thing is certain; people, whenever possible seek to enhance their understanding of the world by gaining access to education. That knowledge… Continue Reading →
Educational technology is a double edge sword. On one hand, technology improves motivation, enhances content, and provides avenues for learning that were not possible in previous generations. On the other hand, technology can distract from a set learning outcomes, yield… Continue Reading →
“Effective teaching depends on flexible access to rich, will-organized and integrated knowledge from different domains” – Matthew J. Koehler and Punya Mishra The Substitution Augmentation Modification and Redefinition Model (SAMR) as well as the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Model… Continue Reading →
Prior to my birth, Richard E. Clark wrote a (now very outdated) paper on how media does not, will not, and can not, influence learning. Central to his argument is that, it matters not how a student learns something as… Continue Reading →
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