Transforming Teaching Through Technology
Recently I had the opportunity to prepare a short video for McGraw-Hill Education on how education technologies, in this case, adaptive learning platforms, were able to transform a general education …
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Category: adaptive learning
Essentials of Biology – Fifth Edition
I am very happy to announce the release of the latest edition of the Mader/Windelspecht text, Essentials of Biology. As an author, this text has always been important to me, not …
Using Connect and SmartBook in a Non-Majors Biology Course
As an instructor, I have been using digital resources in my classes for years. As many of you already know from my presentations and campus visits, I am not only …
Virtual Event: Getting Inside the Minds of Students
Thanks to everyone who attended the McGraw-Hill Virtual Event: Digital Tools in the Modern Classroom and my talk “How Data Lets Us Get Inside the Minds of Students”. As a I …
How Data is Changing Content Development
For my upcoming presentation at Learning Solutions 2016, I am going to be exploring how data is altering the way that content is being developed for the higher education content …
Transformative Teaching: A Virtual Event
On February 26th I was in NYC to participate in the McGraw-Hill Education event: Transformative Teaching.The virtual meeting explored how adaptive learning is transforming the educational ecosystem, from the classroom, to …
How to Get Ebola, Cancer, and 5-Hour Energy Drinks Into Your Classroom
” I don’t get science”….. “Biology isn’t my thing”…. If you are a science teacher, you have heard these statements and others like them many times before – especially if you …
DevLearn 2015: Getting Inside the Minds of Students
Students don’t know what they don’t know. This one simple fact has been one of the biggest obstacles in the reform of any learning ecosystem. If we are going to …
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