I’m not thinking of suspicious packages. Rather, I’m thinking about the standards and ethics of our profession: folks who support teaching and learning with technology. In that regard, I saw several things at ELI 2014 which made me want to say something, and that something is basically "What goes on…
An academic IT conference in New Orleans begs to be told as a story. But those stories are mostly about good food and good company. (Beignets!) The actual “what I learned at ELI 2014” squeezes nicely into a list––or rather, a table. I personally found five presentations (panels, presentations, poster…
Yesterday, I returned from the 2014 ELI Annual Meeting. For many reasons, I’m highly ambivalent about this conference, starting with the appellation. “Annual meeting” feels like a corporate shareholder meeting, though I’ll allow that they may have been just trying to get away from calling it a conference or symposium…
Are there rules to intuition? One rule emerging from the study of the brain is that the mind needs to allow the “brain voices” space in order to synthesize what was learned. In the 1990’s the LMS was (and can still be) very freeing. It allow students and faculty one…