Hi Guy

If I understand you correctly you are pointing out that flipping a classroom needs to also deliver better results which comes back to setting “higher” pedagogy objectives?

I agree that using technology to allow learners to assimilate the content, whilst creating PLN’s is a big advantage of a TEL. I think an important thing to also…[Read more]

Hi mdvfunes (sorry for calling you directly by the name)

Thanks for getting back to me and your response is very appreciated. I am working hard at trying to open the minds of people to a new way to the way we do currently do it. We have started on a blended learning approach making use of self paced learning via online modules that are both…[Read more]

Hi James

I think you have a point, although if you look at the latest developments in VLEs and LMSs they are incorporating a lot more functions so that people can maintain their PLNs, even after the course has finished. I’ve seen LMSs have moved passed tracking to actually saying “Hey Jim, your product sales for this product over the last 4…[Read more]

I think you are right, I saw something the other day that was nicely written: Teaching/Training should be about making your students think that they got to the answer on their own.

I think tasks are a great way of achieving that.

Hi Grant

thanks for the response. To answer your question I have searched high and low for a model that attempts to explain the learning process. The one I personally buy into is Blooms Taxonomy and then you flip it.

What was originally:
Remember – Understand – Apply === in class
Analyse – evaluate – create === out of class (typically as…[Read more]