Waiting for the next assignment or task, while not knowing what it may be, is very difficult for students. Yet, in some (perhaps...many) classrooms too many students wait at their desks for the next ...

The cover of John Hattie’s Visible Learning boasts the blurb “Reveals teaching’s Holy Grail.” Everybody in education needs to get it. If Hattie’s subtitle, A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses ...

When Digication co-founders Kelly Driscoll and Jeffrey Yan started working on the first version of their ePortfolio software in 2001, they were early pioneers in the nascent field of ePortfolio ...

Visible Learning changed our practices away from activities that are actually harmful, like grade retention. It changed our beliefs about things like ability grouping and whole language reading, ...

From 2016 to 2021, Making Teaching & Learning Visible (MTLV) brought together faculty in a collaborative community to redesign their courses. Over an academic year, participants worked in cohorts, ...

An Environmental Studies professor designs an undergraduate-level critical thinking course on Sustainable Food Systems to promote engaged student learning. ENVS 3525-002 Sustainable Food Systems is a ...

All learning should carry a value. As things stand in our society, the only kind of learning to which a value of sorts is attached is formal learning, the one covered by academia or formal training, ...

Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. But what does it really mean? This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and ...

Most of our learning takes place in non-formal and informal contexts. Yet, such learning often goes unrecognised and remains invisible. This limits access to progression pathways in education and the ...