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Experiential Learning

Experiential Learning

Increasingly careerist students, at colleges and universities alike, are attracted to work-integrated learning opportunities. This week, Ken continues his series on innovations in teaching and learning with a closer look... Read more

Increasingly careerist students, at colleges and universities alike, are attracted to work-integrated learning opportunities. This week, Ken... Read more

Active Learning

Active Learning

Passive learning methods like lectures, readings and demonstrations remain the mainstay in higher ed, but research tells us that active learning approaches can have much more lasting impact on student... Read more

Passive learning methods like lectures, readings and demonstrations remain the mainstay in higher ed, but research tells us that active learning... Read more

The Death of Lecture

The "Death" of Lecture

For more than a thousand years, students have been gathering in lecture halls to listen to the “sage on the stage.” But shorter attention spans, new technologies, and empirical testing... Read more

For more than a thousand years, students have been gathering in lecture halls to listen to the “sage on the stage.” But shorter attention... Read more

Adapting to Serve Part-Time Students

Adapting to Part-time Students

In the last episode, Ken laid out his case for the rise of “invisible” part-time students on college and university campuses. Now we review some of the many ways in... Read more

In the last episode, Ken laid out his case for the rise of “invisible” part-time students on college and university campuses. Now we... Read more

eTexts & Open Textbooks

eTextbooks and OER Texts

In this “Big Picture” excerpt from Ten with Ken ep9, Canada’s most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, Ken Steele, reviews the evolution of PSE textbooks. Like it or not,... Read more

In this “Big Picture” excerpt from Ten with Ken ep9, Canada’s most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, Ken Steele, reviews the... Read more

The Latest MOOC Developments

The Latest in MOOCs

Canada’s most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, Ken Steele, reviews the latest developments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Online providers have proliferated since the term was coined by... Read more

Canada’s most trusted higher ed monitor and futurist, Ken Steele, reviews the latest developments in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).... Read more

Are MOOCs everything they’re cracked up to be?

Certainly in the past year, MOOCs have become mainstream buzz as Coursera, Udacity, EdX and dozens of other platforms have launched, grown, and earned plenty of media attention.  This is... Read more

Certainly in the past year, MOOCs have become mainstream buzz as Coursera, Udacity, EdX and dozens of other platforms have launched, grown, and... Read more

Breaking Through Boundaries in Teaching and Learning: STLHE 2012

I’m back in Montreal this week (for the third time this spring) to attend the 2012 national conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE).  I’m... Read more

I’m back in Montreal this week (for the third time this spring) to attend the 2012 national conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning... Read more

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