Jennie Young nails it in this delightful little bit of satire about the misuse of learning outcomes in education, Forget the Magic of Discovery, It’s Learning Outcomes That Help Children Identify, Comprehend, and Synthesize Their...

This post asks the question,How does the order of questions in a test affects how well students do?The answer is “significantly.”The post points to a paywalled study that shows, fairly conclusively, that starting with simpler...

a directional, and portable wildlife detection system using a Raspberry Pi 4 that will use an IR filtered camera and IR illuminators to detect the infrared reflection of an animals eyes

The term paradigm is a way of looking at or researching phenomena, a worldview, a view of what counts as accepted or correct scientific knowledge (Cohen et al., 2018, p. 8). Pragmatism is defined in the following:A worldview or philosophy that...

My research area is interdisciplinary, combining theory and practice. Co-designing a dashboard is interesting, but I was concerned about the convoluted design process. I searched for a practical, easy-to-follow dashboard design method. However, I...

Two papers in the first week provide comprehensive overviews and trends in distance education research. In Forum #1 on the Moodle discussion board, I summarized two papers and expressed my thoughts on distance education research in preparation for...

Easterday, M. W., Rees Lewis, D. G., & Gerber, E. M. (2018). The logic of design research. Learning: Research and Practice, 4(2), 131–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/23735082.2017.1286367Paradigm: PragmatismTheoretical framework:...

Human-centred learning analytics Learning analytics is defined as “measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts for understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it...

I am a researcher, an educator, and a designer. I decided to write my doctoral dissertation about the co-designed dashboard on professional learning within the community of inquiry (CoI). My research interest in the integration of theory and...

Tim Brown originally wrote Change by Design in 2009 and revised it in 2019. According to him, design thinking is a methodology that imbues the full spectrum of innovation activities with a human-centred design ethos. Put simply, design thinking is...