technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
Recently, Old Dominion University embarked on an initiative to improve the teaching of disciplinary writing across courses university-wide. This is part of ODU’s Quality Enhancement Plan, an effort to improve undergraduate instruction in general. It’s...
Recently, there was a brief discussion about online Ph.D. psychology programs on the PSYTEACH listserv. Generally, it was met with disbelief that an online psychology doctoral degree could be rigorous for a variety of...
There has been quite a bit of hype about MOOCs lately. If you haven’t been following the craze – and it is definitely a craze, just as much as Big Data is – a...
In the last several months, massively open online courses (MOOCs) have been presented as a game-changer, a seismic shift, a crisis, and a McDonaldization of higher education. A fair number of universities have jumped...
When students feel that their performance on learning assessments is out of their control, they create excuses before the assessment has even taken place. These excuses are often not based in reality; instead, the...
The key to design is to choose instructional technologies to fit training objectives. Most designers choose PowerPoint first. That is backwards and inefficient.