One maxim that I share with team members here at InterLearn is that “you can tell clients that you don’t know.” That is, I want them to know that they don’t have to know it all.
You Don’t Have to Know It All (and you can’t know it all)
The Truths We Ignore about Faculty (and how to embrace those Truths)
I’ve seen it time and again…examples of exceptional teachers in higher education and some dismal failures. We look to faculty to be the deliverers of our message and mission to the students at our institutions. We hire them educated in their field of study and ask them to pass on the body of knowledge to our students from our institutional perspective.
Learning to Sit at the Feet of a Master: A Model for LifeLong Learning
Throughout my life, there have been individuals that I have so greatly learned from that I just wanted to really dive in deep with them and learn as much as I could. For me, this category has included some ministers, some leaders, some Godly, wise men, a few teachers. These individuals so grab my attention that I want to be able to just sit at their feet and learn what they have learned and can pass on. A few of these individuals I know well and still get the chance to continue learning. A few of these individuals have passed away. A few of these individuals have changed in some of their perspectives and I am more guarded in what I would choose to learn from them.
Facebook and the Normalization of the Online Environment
When I started out in what is now the adult and online education field, it was in correspondence programs where students and faculty communicated via U.S. Post (or if the assignment was really late. . .UPS or Fedex). Then these new things called e-mail addresses were being given out to allow us to communicate through something called the internet (“internets” if you were or are old. . .or funny). I and my trusty 14.4k Modem were burning up America Online.
Andragogy: the modern learning framework
The most common differentiation I hear between pedagogy and andragogy is the simple definition … the art and science of teaching children (pedagogy) or teaching adults (andragogy).
The Mindset of Online Curriculum Systems
The phrase of change is the new constant is one that is sometimes frustrating to embrace. This is a surviving mentality … we have to change to survive. Frankly though, survival is no longer good enough. Thriving is the important mindset to develop, which requires two things: saying goodbye to the old and embracing innovation. This isn’t a requirement to change the world though; rather, it’s a strategy to stay true to your vision and being flexible on how you achieve it.