My work on the Harvard's How People Learn course is based on the understanding that some members of the How People Learn community will...

LMS is an acronym for Learning Management System. It’s an online platform that enables educational institutions and organizations and to...

The higher education system is well past its use by date. The unit and credit system, as we know it today, emerged at the end of the 19th...

When MOOCs emerged around a decade ago the hype was intense. In 2013, when MOOCs were still in their infancy, the New York Times writer...

For a fascinating look at the history of education, I highly recommend Tony Bates’ Teaching in the Digital Age. In his chapter on methods...

Surely one of the greatest outcomes of the current saturation of media, advertising and competition for attention online is a move toward...

Think about the most effective teacher you’ve had. What made them special? Was it the extra care and effort they put in? A good sense of...

People construct new knowledge and understandings based on what they already know and believe (e.g., Cobb, 1994; Piaget, 1952, 1973a,b,...