How do educators design tasks in which students construct their own knowledge; conceptually demonstrate their understanding through application, analyzation, or interpretations; and elaborately ...

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

Educators have always faced the challenge of how to determine if their students are thinking. Since the 1950s, Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives has been one of the most influential ...

Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework that conceptualizes learning as cognitive, attitudinal, and physical. The cognitive domain usefully breaks down knowledge and intellectual skills into progressively ...

In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...

Assessment of course quality, student learning, and professor effectiveness has become paramount in many of today’s universities and colleges. We seem always to strive for a better way to assess our ...

Let’s say that you, as an adult, wanted to learn something new. Perhaps woodworking, coding, yoga, or guitar. You would likely search for experts and models to learn from—in person or online. You ...

A guide to how ChatGPT and other AI writers can be used to help learning designers and faculty create course content more efficiently In December 2022, the Future Trends Forum hosted by researcher and ...