category LRNT 524

After reading “Gartner’s 2016 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies Three Key Trends That Organizations Must Track to Gain Competitive Advantage”, I reflected on shifts in technology within education. Education has increasingly incorporated technology, however, transformational shifts in how technology… Continue Reading →

Empathic design takes into consideration and is sensitive to the end user’s feelings, emotions, thoughts and experiences about a product or process of design. This method of designing is a human centered, observational and collaborative approach to design (Mattelmäki, Vaajakallio,… Continue Reading →

In Merrill (2002) “First Principles of Instruction” the emphasis is placed on problem-centered learning. Merrill (2002) states that “Many current instructional models suggest that the most effective learning products or environments are those that are problem-centered” (p. 44). This problem-centered… Continue Reading →

By: Sanjay Pottinger & Susan Nassiripour Context & Challenge Sanjay is an Advisor at a college and Susan works as a teacher trainer at a language school. We are seeking to encourage new teachers, who are students in an orientation,… Continue Reading →