How Do We Define Success in an Open Course

[social_share/] [social-bio] A version of this post was originally published on Heather Ross’s blog on June 24, 2014. In June I attended the Society for Teaching and Learning In Higher Education (STLHE) conference in Kingston, Ontario. As part of the conference I presented, along with Nancy Turner and Jaymie Koroluk (University of Ontario Institute of Technology),…

Problem Solving = Great! But what kind of problems are our students really learning?

[social_share/] [social-bio]   By Carolyn Hoessler What learning are we really asking our students to demonstrate, and what are we saying actually matters through our assessments? Within statistics, exams require students to apply statistical procedure such as t-tests to questions e.g., is there a significant difference between boys and girls on self-confidence or neural activity…