What’s Grit Got to Do with Learning? was previously posted on the AACE Review (Rogers, 2017) Grit In terms of education, ‘grit’ is a combination of your passion for learning, perseverance at task, and purposeful activities. Volition and conation are synonyms for grit. During his AECT 2017 keynote, Thomas Reeves, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia and AACE Fellow since 2003
Read moreThe Blackboard (Bb) Test Generator converts your electronic file tests (i.e., MS Word or Text) into the learning management system (LMS) test questions. Bb Test Generator is an open educational resource. This will save time from building a multiple choice or T/F test online one question at a time IF you already have it prepared. The Oklahoma Christian University provides a Bb
Read moreLast year, I attended a lecture by my former assessment and measurement professor, Dr. Van Haneghan, at the University of South Alabama. He addressed the paradox of using Cohen’s Kappa (k) for inter-rater reliability and acknowledged that it was identified in the literature two decades ago but has been mainly overlooked. The problem is that Cohen’s k skews data when there is a
Read moreI’m so excited about attending my first conference of the American Educational Research Association (#AERA18) this year. This year’s theme is the dreams, possibilities, and necessity of public education. It will be held in New York City from April 13-17th at various participating hotels. There are 17,000 registrants! My first event at the conference is to meet my second language
Read moreI subscribe to this blog and thought this was something my readers would appreciate learning. EdTech Digest Kahoot!, the game-based learning platform, makes it easy to create, discover, play, and share fun learning games in minutes. Games can be found for any subject, in any language, and are accessible on any device. With Kahoot!, you can introduce new topics, test
Read moreTwo of my proposals were accepted for presentation at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference in Savannah, GA. I’d love to connect with any of my readers who are also going to SITE. This will be my second time to attend this conference and my first time in the city of Savannah. I can’t wait! Here’s my
Read moreOnline Community of Inquiry Syllabus Rubric, Copyright 2015 by Rogers & Van Haneghan
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