Today we mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. "This page organizes a variety of resources into four sections: First Nations, Inuit, Métis and additional resources, to help you explore the history, languages, cultures, and...

From the website: "The University of Ottawa used a participatory methodology to develop this institutional competency framework... By establishing a common vocabulary for the development of learning outcomes for all learning activities, we can help students better understand the competencies they can acquire throughout their academic career." The full presentation (...

A 'prioritization framework' is a mechanism whereby " Product Managers or product teams... score each feature or initiative on the factors in the framework, then plug those scores into a formula to come to an overall score for each feature." Instead of prioritizing features, Saeed Khan...

Martin Weller's latest book has been published in an open access online format (199 page PDF) by Athabasca University. "Metaphor provides a means... of considering ed tech...

The cornerstone of this post is a set of five short examples of instructors employing alternative approaches "to design assessment activities that would assess student learning in non-traditional ways." The examples take me back to my school days where my absolute favourite parts were the 'projects' I was encouraged to do (like the one on Ecuador, the one on the Danube River,...

This is a fun post. I noticed first the sweeping redefinition of the word 'story' to include "allegories, analogies, anecdotes, images, memes, metaphors, and more", none of which (except anecdotes) I would consider an actual 'story'. No matter. I'm onboard with this redefinition,...