How to Make Assessment Meaningful
One of the challenges with assessment is answering the “so-what” question. After the initial nationwide calls for assessment more than three decades ago, most institutions are conducting assessment....
View ArticleLet’s Get Real about Learning
The primary reason instructors are interested in integrating real world tasks into the classroom stems from a belief that learning that emulates real life is more likely to promote student motivation,...
View ArticleE-Textbooks: Making Course Resources More Accessible and Affordable
The Textbook Problem The affordability of, and accessibility to, lower cost course resources such as textbooks and supplementary materials in higher education is a growing concern in the United States....
View ArticleBegging the Question: Strategies to Increase Student Performance
Begging the Question: Strategies to Increase Student Performance If you’re an instructional designer or an instructor, you undoubtedly know a lot about questions. You know that simple yes-no questions...
View Article3 Top Leadership Competencies for Instructional Designers
A successful instructional designer not only needs to be excelling in design and development, but also needs to be a leader, a change agent, and a strategist. Within higher education organizations,...
View Article3 Key Principles for Increasing Self-Confidence & Engagement in Online...
Most students who enter colleges need basic math skills to succeed in college-level mathematics. Therefore, most colleges provide “a sequence of developmental mathematics courses that starts with basic...
View ArticleCaring for Lawns and University Courses: Fixing Common Problems with...
It is springtime and that means lawns are growing. What do you do to help your lawn along in the spring? Many people just start mowing. They also rely on spring rains for water. A lawn might look okay...
View ArticleCritical Reflection is More than Just Looking in a Mirror
“Magic mirror on the wall – who is the fairest of them all?” spoken by the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Looking in a mirror (and most of us don’t have a magic mirror!) provides...
View ArticleAssessment as an agent for change!
I recently attended two assessment-related conferences: the AALHE (Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education) 7th Annual Conference and the SAARC (Student Affairs Assessment and...
View ArticleOur Blog has Moved!
Hello, wonderful i4 Blog readers, Our blog has a new home! We’ve updated to a new platform which will allow us to more easily share and receive great ideas and insight with and from you, our readers....
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