Websites like RateMyProfessors.com, which provide learning content about over a million professors, have many pros. One is obvious: students are able to access learning content about professors and their style […]
Besides professor evaluation forms, students have online opportunities to rate their teachers’ style and success at delivering learning content. On RateMyProfessors.com, students can join a conversation or begin their own […]
So how can higher education systems work to create better teaching of meaningful learning content? The system’s status quo is so entrenched, it’s going to take a variety of different […]
A major problem in the higher education learning system is that real learning is often hindered by a range of phenomena. Roger Schank points to a number of these occurrences. […]
Children and adults alike are highly responsive to words of encouragement. Along with the user-friendly and comprehensive training your learning management system provides, employees benefit greatly from motivation. A figure […]
Why did the chicken cross the road? It certainly wasn’t just to get to the other side. No, there was probably something across the road that the chicken wanted, and […]
Every election year, a large portion of the nation’s people remain uneducated about the issues and where politicians stand on those issues. Some people simply don’t care about politics. But […]
Picture it: you’re a student on your first day of a history course. Printed on the syllabus is an advertisement for a local Mexican restaurant, El Diablo. An El Diablo […]
Come to find out, my alma mater was just one of 8,000 schools nationwide who signed a contract with Channel One, which in return for airing its commercial-ridden news program […]
When I was in high school, we didn’t have TVs in every classroom. I remember our history teacher wheeling a TV in from next door to show us films with […]
We’ve seen school buses festooned with colorful advertising. But what about inside the buses, and in actual schools? There is a host of ways in which children’s school environments and […]
For many budget-crunched school districts, raising funds for everything from learning content materials to entire departments is increasingly difficult. Many consider using advertising on school buses and other locations throughout […]
What can we do to offset the learning content children are being exposed to through TV advertising? The bombardment is truly overwhelming. Parents alone can’t tackle the problem. But they […]
Is it possible for young viewers to simply tune out advertising learning content if they’re not interested? It’s difficult. The problem is that so much money is wrapped up in […]
These days, American children spend an average of 40 hours a week consuming media outside of school. Most of those hours are spent listening to the radio, watching television or […]
Many people create websites with the goal of earning money. One of the most obvious ways to fund your website is through advertising. But when implementing advertisements to your website, […]
Is speed-reading an actual skill worth learning? Aren’t serious students supposed to pick through learning content with a fine-toothed comb? Speed-reading is a skill that if taught and practiced well, […]
How does one recognize filler in reading material and separate it from the important learning content? Filler takes many forms–especially in historical learning content. There are author’s asides, which are […]
Most students, from high school to college, know the difference between reading and skimming learning content material. Skimming, or speed-reading, is when your eyes sail along the lines dragging a […]
A video is an effective tool for prompting learners using a learning management system to interpret and analyze instructional material. But why not allow students themselves to create video projects, […]