Reflections on assessment: Time to put our questions to the test

Seven things teachers preach but fail to practise

After six months of rather intensive teacher training- face-to-face and online- it’s probably time to reflect on the things I’ve learned, as a trainer, about my fellow teachers. While working together with peers and reflecting on pedagogical…

About scaffolding. Or how I learned that I’m working on a construction site

Digital literacy: what is all the fuss about?

“Digital literacy” is one of the fashionable terms that we tend to hear or read…

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

Learning across disciplines: a step too far for educational research?

There is a growing body of literature that focuses on theoretical approaches for adopting educational technologies as well as providing “recipes” for how to integrate technology in the educational process. The…

Lotte Van den Audenaeren- All things will never be all things (installation in Maelbeek tunnel

Crowdsourcing learning designs

Teaching can often (and not entirely wrongly) be perceived as an essentially individual endeavour. The image of a teacher carefully preparing his or her course materials and lesson plans, delivering the lecture and spending long nights grading essays and exams is as common…

Lost in terminology: e-learning vs. distance learning

Having been involved in delivering online courses in the past years, I often encounter the terms “e-learning” and “distance learning” as interchangeable. This always puzzled me, as I somehow had the feeling there had to be a difference…