Designing Online Learning Spaces (2): Losing viewers to the great abyss? Basic UX principles for wayfinding By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Picture a website you enjoy visiting. It can be for news, shopping, video viewing, etc. How do you feel as you work your way through content? Do you naturally know where to click, how to navigate, and how … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (1): How will you read this page? By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Picture a science lab in your mind; now picture a lecture hall; finally, picture a piano studio. Most likely, each space that you imagined looked very different. Just as the setup of a physical classroom implies a particular … Read more
Silence is Golden? An Interview with Leslie Duran on Silence Online By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review In the past, higher education pedagogy has been built largely on the framework of a single knowledgeably expert speaking while others quietly listen and learn. Listening and silence are seen as positive in brick and mortar education, signaling … Read more
How Students with Depression Experience Online Learning: Tracy Orr’s Research Offers Pointers for Course Developers By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The learning journey, with its mission of moving students from a place of unknowing to a place of mastery, is inherently challenging. When undertaken in a fully online environment, often alongside full-time work and family responsibilities, it takes … Read more
2019 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report – Review and Summary By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review In April of this year, the 2019 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report came out, archived here in LearnTechLib. For the uninitiated, the Horizon Report profiles what an expert panel of international leaders from across higher education identify as six key … Read more
A Closer Look at ELI 15 Key Issues of Teaching and Learning 2019 By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The annual ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning infographics are organized along fifteen different themes that serve as “frameworks or focal points for discussion and programming throughout the coming year.” EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that exists … Read more
Virtual Studios (4): Implementing a Virtual Studio: An Interview with Elijah Van Benschoten By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Prompted by the 2019 Innovating Pedagogy Report, this post series has endeavored to provide a dive into the world of virtual studios. The first post in the series introduced studios and studio pedagogy. The second post examined high-level … Read more
Virtual Studios (3): Practical Tools to Use when Implementing Virtual Studio Principles By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The 2019 Innovating Pedagogy Report called virtual studios one of the “top ten” pedagogical innovations that might take off in 2019. The first two posts in this series first introduced studios and studio pedagogy and next examined high-level … Read more
Virtual Studios (2): Practical Ways to Consider Implementing Virtual Studio Principles By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Virtual studios were marked in The 2019 Innovating Pedagogy Report as one of the “top ten” innovations that may come into their own this year. In this, the second post in the virtual studio series, I will be … Read more
Virtual Studios (1): An Introduction to Studios and Studio Pedagogy By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The 2019 Innovating Pedagogy Report from the Open University highlights ‘Virtual Studios’ as one of the ten pedagogical trends that might come into their own in the coming years. You can read a general summary on AACE Review. … Read more