A Light in the Darkness
Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 3:17PM These are dark times. It's kind of an inescapable truth.
ramblings Finding a Place for Gamification - DT&L 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015 at 11:51AM In early August 2015 I gave a speed talk at the UW Distance Teaching & Learning conference on gamification and learning. The speed talk format is a bit different from the pecha kucha and other related formats in that there is no slide limit, and and time limit is ten minutes. That's just enough time to get yourself in trouble! Link for the slides after the jump.
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, & the Skills Gap
Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 11:16AM I'd like to spill just a few words on the topic of critical thinking and problem solving which I've started exploring in relation to the so called "skills gap." To make a long story short, there's a whole lot of noise out there at current around how underprepared colllege students are from the perspective of employers. There are a lot of dimensions to this conversation, but I'd like to focus on just one of them. A significant amount of research has been conducted asking employers about the skills they believe prospective employees should have (here's an example), and there are consistent themes that come up. One of them, regardless of how the question is asked, seems to be that employers want new hires who are strong critical thinkers and have excellent problem solving skills. I believe that these responses are indicative of a serious problem, and it's probably not what you think it is.
critical thinking, problem solving, skills gap, workforce in Academic, Education 