This article was written by one of our amazing contributors! Content may include promotional links. When you think back to the education system 10, 15, even 20 years ago, times were very different in terms of how educators went about teaching their lessons. Every classroom was equipped with chalkboards for
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Over the years as a college professor, I’ve learned two fundamental truths about self-directed learning: 1) 95% of people are confident that they are good, self-directed learners; and 2) at least half of them are not. If you’ve ever considered doing an online program, participating in a competency-based education model,
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If there’s ever been a Top 10 List of Most Boring Documents, a course syllabus would most ceratinly be on it. It’s unfortunate, too, because syllabi have a unique ability–as much as a written document can, I suppose–to get students excited about course content. There are a lot of things
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Every August, educators around the globe unite in a common purpose, a ritual as dull as scraping cuticle that we might as well blame on the late Cicero—we draft syllabi. While it’s true that that the tedium will often conjure flashes of euphoria as we experience the rush of designing
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Full disclosure: I don’t know everything there is to know about teaching. Shoot, I probably know far less than most of the people taking the time to read this post. So take my “rules for teaching” suggestions below with a large, crumbly grain of salt. With that out of the
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