December 23, 2024 | By Ellen Wasserman and Susan Bickerstaff In online courses, students are expected to take more ownership of planning their learning approaches and study methods, organizing their time, seeking help, and following through on coursework. In online STEM courses, these expectations are compounded by disciplinary cultures that have traditionally emphasized meritocracy and … Continue reading Practitioners Leading the Way: Developing a Model for Self-Directed Learning in Online Courses
This video is related to this blog Part 1: How Can EdTech be a Tool for Equity?
Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative principal investigator Rebecca Griffiths joins Meaghan Duff and David Yaskin for a discussion centered on scaling evidence-based EdTech in postsecondary education.
This Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative report examines how faculty and staff at nine institutions reconsidered students’ online learning needs in the midst of the pandemic, and it explores how supports were offered to help students strengthen their self-directed learning skills.
Resources Publications Newsletters October 7, 2024. We Hope You had a Great Start to Your School Year We hope you feel energized and ready to support students. In this issue of News from the Collaborative for fall 2024, we share several new blog posts including Embracing Change in Online Education: Insights from a Postsecondary … Continue reading Newsletters
The term self-directed learning—as we are currently using it within the Postsecondary Collaborative—encompasses an intricate set of mindsets and intrapersonal skills that students use to manage their learning. Though educators and researchers often think of them as discrete skills, we theorize that they are more powerful together than alone.