Empathizing With Our Learners
Last week a student called to say his father had fallen, and needed to be relocated to assisted living. I’llContinue Reading
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Crash Course in Design Thinking: A Virtual Experience
The Design Thinking Crash Course from the d.School at Stamford provides an interesting opportunity to experience the design thinking processContinue Reading
Design Thinking As An Instructional Design Approach
The Design Thinking approach has been popularized by Tim Brown and the d.school at Stamford University as a way toContinue Reading
Data Visualization & Student Debt
Over the past seven weeks I have taken a course on Data Visualization – a topic about which I knewContinue Reading
Three Years of Reading
For the past seven years, I’ve been tracking the books that I read by taking a photograph of my bookContinue Reading
Using Data to Gently Nudge, But Never Lie
In our fast-paced, news saturated world, we are constantly bombarded with data and charts meant to influence our thoughts andContinue Reading
Bad Charts Are Worse Than No Charts At All
When done correctly, charts and graphs can have a powerful impact on the viewer, presenting a strong argument, showing aContinue Reading
A Season of Softball
As part of the Data Visualization course I am taking this summer, we have been tracking data about ourselves andContinue Reading
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