Originally published February 26, 2016. Thanks to the Way Back Machine this post was recreated after the original was hacked. by Mike Goudzwaard Do you remember your very first LMS (learning management system)? When I started grad school nine years ago, my classes all had sites on something called FirstClass. FirstClass was not modern in […]
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Reflections on the 2015 AAEEBL Conference
By: Mike Goudzwaard and Ashley Kehoe Ashley and Mike recently attended the 2015 Association for Authentic Experiential Evidence Based Learning (AAEEBL) conference and had the opportunity to kick off the conference by giving 2 consecutive Ignite Talks. AAEEBL‘s goal is “to promote portfolio learning as a major way to transform higher education.” The Ignite Model […]
Live Office Hours with Google Hangouts On Air: A Recipe
By Mike Goudzwaard This piece was originally published on Instructional Design at Dartmouth on July 16, 2015. DartmouthX has recently offered Live Office Hours with students in an Introduction to Environmental Science (ENVX) with Google Hangouts on Air. Instructors Prof. Andy Friedland and Mike Goudzwaard along with the course team hosted four sessions over two offerings of the […]
Emerging Tech: The Case for More Test Kitchens
By Mike Goudzwaard This piece was originally published on Instructional Design at Dartmouth on May 15, 2015. Recently, I attended the Online Learning Consortium’s (OLC) Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium (ET4Online). As I arrived in Dallas, I wondered what sort of technologies are “emerging” for online, blended, and face-to-face learning. Would sessions all […]
The Value Problem in Digital Badging
The Value Problem in Digital Badging was originally published as a guest post on Joshua Kim’s Inside Higher Ed blog, Technology and Learning on January 5, 2015. by Mike Goudzwaard (http://mgoudz.com/bio) and Michael Evans (http://michaelsevans.com/) Digital badges are gaining traction in higher education. A learner might earn one badge in a traditional university classroom, another for participating […]