Month: December 2020

My teaching philosophy has certainly been a journey, but where to begin?   When I inherited my course in Fall 2017, I’m not sure I could have articulated my teaching philosophy other than to say I wanted to teach students about risk analysis.  And because this course was an online course and because UAF had e-Campus and because I felt like such a novice (read imposter!) since I had limited...

I would echo what many of my classmates have shared in their posts.  I do think there are distinct differences depending on the cohort you are working with - either the K-12 or the secondary community - if only for the concept of “consenting” or not.    I agree with those who said that those who oversee K-12 populations need to be held to a higher standard.  As a student of online...

Introduction The article “The impact of gamification on learning and instruction: A systematic review of empirical evidence” by Zaubyddub et al (2020) represented my continued interest in trying to better understand the value and impact of game-based learning.   The Introduction provided a robust overview of the current literature and terminology as it attempted to provide an objective...

The article “Instructor Perspectives on Building Community in Online Discussion-Based Courses: Issues of Pedagogy and Functionality” by MacKinnon et al (2020) was written in recognition of the growing numbers of online courses and a desire to identify those characteristics of courses that enhance “collective meaning-making”.  That term is not defined within the article but appears to...

As our reliance on educational technology increases, the role of the teacher begins to evolve with the technology itself.  In order for the teacher to be effective, there must be a symbiotic relationship between the teacher, student, and technology.  One analogy might be to consider the teacher and the student as the two strands of opposing DNA with the teacher's creations connecting the two. ...

A classroom environment has historically been both the recipient and the developer of media regardless of the decade or even the century in which it was developed.  However, when educators speak of media today, they tend to gravitate towards that which is electronic and available in visual and auditory formats and which may allow for a more interactive exchange of ideas and reinforcement of the...