Category Archives: Educational Pattern Languages

“Signature Pedaogies” = Educational Pattern Languages?

Chris Correa has a thought-provoking post on something called “signature pedagogies.” Here’s an excerpt:

Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation, shared some of the preliminary results from the foundation’s studies of professional education (including the education of lawyers, doctors, clergy, teachers, and others). He introduced the notion of signature pedagogies, or (as I understood it) the [...]

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Small Tools/Big Ideas: Integrating Technologies for Teaching Art and Art History

FIT will be hosting a great conference this October on teaching visual topics online using tools that afford social learning. The conference is just a bit of a misnomer, since much of the content will be relevant and valuable to a more general audience than just art and art history instructors; it’s really about teaching [...]

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“An excess of teaching presence will limit student-student interaction”

Joe Ugoretz has a

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Learning Activity Management Systems

SUNY has a home-grown Lotus-Notes-based learning management system that has some truly remarkable features. I’ll be posting about some of these innovations over the coming weeks as I get to know the system better. What I want to focus on in this post, though, is a feature that I have only ever heard of one [...]

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Ethnoclassification, Pattern Languages, and MERLOT

Something clicked for me when I saw the reference on elearningpost to Peter Merholtz’s piece on the bag of keywords approach. The word Maish highlighted was “ethnoclassification.” This made me think of how you could unearth pattern languages in a learning object repository like MERLOT, MLX, or Pachyderm.

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