The more buffets are compared to hybrid learning the more similarities appear. There aren’t many buffets around anymore, and the rapid closure of many restaurants over the past year due to pandemic restrictions demonstrate the urgency to adopt to the needs of the customers (a.k.a. students). Diners might decide to eat at a buffet restaurant… Continue reading Comparing Apples to Apples: Buffet Restaurants and Hybrid Learning
Category: Education and Learning
Post Pandemic Prediction #3: Need For Flexibility
Post secondary institutions and their departments, instructors, and supporting staff will become much more flexible in the way courses are offered to meet the needs and demands of students and instructors. Many students have experienced a new form of learning since March, 2020. Some have adopted a new schedule based on their new flexible learning… Continue reading Post Pandemic Prediction #3: Need For Flexibility
Get the “non-sale sale”: Be a listener once again
In Daniel H. Pink’s To Sell Is Human, he discusses “non-sales selling”, or moving people to adopt new ideas or ways of doing things. This is what instructors and ninety percent of the population do daily. To do this, Pink writes, we must agitate rather than irritate our clients (students, coworkers, managers, etc.). The difference… Continue reading Get the “non-sale sale”: Be a listener once again
The Turnitin Divide: Anxiety vs. Peace-of-mind
Methods to counter academic misconduct have been at the forefront of many department meetings, discussion groups and committees and the most that comes out of them seems to be disagreement. Let us here focus on plagiarism, a key issue that concerns many faculty and department heads. One divide is the use of tools, such as… Continue reading The Turnitin Divide: Anxiety vs. Peace-of-mind
Post-Pandemic Prediction #2: The Post-pandemic Student
The dentist is where I can go to get some great insight into the student experience in online learning. Oh yeah, and get some dental work done, too. The dental administrator goes to my university and she speaks openly about her courses. I’m always thinking about what learning will look like after COVID, but the… Continue reading Post-Pandemic Prediction #2: The Post-pandemic Student
