GoConqr – Online curation of resources such as images and videos for content, including a repository for user-created resources which may be kept behind an interest group wall. ClassHook – Online curation of popular (some of them anyway) videos classified according to the academic principles they demonstrate. Great for engagement and flipped classrooms.
Annotated bibliographies are things of beauty for anyone undertaking scholarly works. The Science of Learning – brought to you by the Deans for Impact, this short fact-filled document provides not only a summary of recent (to 2015) research in cognitive science but also packages it around six key questions all educators will find useful. They even pooh pooh some common misconceptions about how students learn and think, including the oft-cited ‘students have different learning styles’ trope. Should you add a talking head…
Digital literacies for the health sciences – a useful and user-friendly site from LaTrobe University. Includes a digital literacy framework and a curriculum mapping tool. Check out the ‘Developing themes’ menu item.
One of my favourite models for e-learning design is the ‘Community of Inquiry’ (Garrison et al. 2007), because it emphasises the importance of nurturing the social and teaching presences as well as the cognitive presence in the educational experience. This is in danger of being neglected when curriculum design goes online. Online discussions – great video from CoFA Online with experts sharing their tips for nurturing online discussions. The CSU online learning model – Great information for improving online engagement. They also have…
There are many resources to help with curriculum design and development, including the implementation of blended learning models. Many involve templates and supporting materials that are transferable to other environments. Learning Designer – this is very cool: an online tool, from the UCL Knowledge Lab in London, that allows you to visualise the relative proportions of learning activities that fall under six learning types identified by Diana Laurillard’s Conversational Framework: Read/Write/Listen (or Acquisition), Inquiry, Practice, Production, Discussion and Collaboration. You can…
There are bloomin’ hundreds of beautifully designed representations of Bloom’s ever useful taxonomy. Here are a few of my favourites. Blooms taxonomy teacher planning kit – teacher planning resource that provides a framework for generating Learning Objectives, tasks and questions linked directly to Blooms. TES (2015). Bloom’s Taxonomy Teacher Planning Kit by jam2804 – TES. Retrieved September 27, 2016, from https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/bloom-s-taxonomy-teacher-planning-kit-6141531. Iowa State University – Revised Blooms Taxonomy – 3D representation of learning objectives derived from the knowledge and cognitive process dimensions.