Three ways to ask better questions in the classroom

"Thinking is driven by questions"

Mazur says "You can forget facts, but you cannot forget understanding." Here is a video of Mazur's approach.

"But here's the irony. "Mary is more likely to convince John than professor Mazur in front of the class," Mazur says. "She's only recently learned it and still has some feeling for the conceptual difficulties that she has whereas professor Mazur learned [the idea] such a long time ago that he can no longer understand why somebody has difficulty grasping it.""

"Service Learning in French or Spanish at Roehampton University, London "

Service learning in French. Creating and recording children's books in French.

"examples of service learning projects at the middle and high school level"

Service learning in French at NMU. "Students will create educational displays for exhibits at the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum."

Service learning at the University of Maine. "It could definitely serve as a service-learning model for other universities and communities. "

Service Learning in French at the University of Cincinnati

"Soon after we were underway, I felt we needed an e-Learning developer's guide to preserve some of the decisions we were making. The guide would also serve as a job aid for our inexperienced team members, and perhaps would be a central repository for solutions to authoring challenges as we encountered them. ... This story is as much about the development of a new e-Learning shop as it is about the guide itself, since the guide merely documents the decisions or intentions we adopted."

"In this book, Grant P. Wiggins clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system."

"By integrating skills and through authentic instruction, we will prepare students not only for the examination but also for the practical use of the language in our current, diverse society."

""Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." ― Benjamin Franklin"

Jon Mueller's Authentic Assessment Toolbox (2011)

Development of the Authentic Assessment Toolbox by Jon Mueller (2005)

Authentic assessment for online learning from Curt Bonk

Introduction to authentic assessment and a toolkit for faculty use!

The interactive learning theory matrix was created by Tina Nobi, a student in Walden University's education program. See the last slide for the complete matrix.

"more information, not less, is the way to plan for online engagement."