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Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Learning: Making the Most of Your Online Course
In today’s digital world, online learning provides options for teaching coursework to college or university students, including synchronous and asynchronous learning. Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Learning: The Basics Both synchronous and asynchronous learning are available methods [...]
10 Benefits & Uses for Technology in the Classroom
As the world changes, so do the methods we use to educate students. It’s no secret that technological developments have been coming at a rapid pace in the past few decades, and because of that, [...]
5 Benefits of Hybrid Learning for Your Classroom
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, many teachers and learners engaged with online technologies for the first time. As a way to continue teaching and learning, online learning was a solution for education to continue during [...]
Intellectual and Emotional Obstacles to Adopting Evidence-based Teaching Practices
Dr. David Wiley | Founder & Chief Academic Officer Helping people adopt evidence-based practices is notoriously difficult. Even in matters of life and death, evidence-based practices frequently go unadopted or take an incredibly long time [...]
Engineering Intern
Remote, US based About Lumen Learning Lumen’s company mission is to create unprecedented learning for all students. Lumen provides solutions that create effective learning experiences for students and guide faculty members in the use of [...]
Reading Research on Learning: In Pursuit of the Holy Grail
In Pursuit of the Holy Grail Chapter 13 Dr. David Wiley, Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer This chapter reviews Bloom’s classic 1984 article on the “2 sigma problem.” Personally, I find this article to be one [...]
Reading Research on Learning: What You Know Determines What You Learn
What You Know Determines What You Learn Chapter 6 Dr. David Wiley, Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer This chapter is about Ausbel’s 1960 paper on “advance organizers” (and no, it’s not “advanced organizers”). The key insight [...]
An Update On Our Community-Driven Continuous Improvement Efforts
Bob Bodily, PhD, Director of Data Science & Research In January of 2020, we started an experimental community-driven continuous improvement project with a few of our Waymaker courses. This was the continuous improvement process we [...]
Using Digital Courseware to Gain Actionable Data
With the advancements of technology and digital courseware tools, you have access to more learning data than ever before. However, that data isn’t much help if it’s not actionable. A recent report by Digital Promise, [...]