It’s Time to Get Serious About Teaching Critical Thinking

(Inside Higher Education, March 2, 2020)

We in academe must do more to ensure today’s students become tomorrow’s skilled thinkers.

Is there a tension between teaching and assessing critical-thinking skills?

(British Educational Research Association, June 2, 2020)

Remote Learning Begs the Question: Must Lectures Be So Long?

(edSurge, March 25, 2020)

What can K-12 teachers, college and university professors and specialists in online education learn from one another when it comes to optimizing lectures in remote learning environments?

Is Education Entering an “Age of Alternatives”?

(edSurge, March 2, 2019)

Might our education system be entering a new age without anyone noticing?

Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

(edSurge, August 19, 2019)

Why do efforts to make teachers more efficient often backfire?

What Can Schools Learn from the Successful Transformation of Public Libraries?

(edSurge, October 26, 2019)

What can libraries teach us about what might work in future attempts at school reform?

Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win

(edSurge, October 26, 2019)

Might failures in Ed Tech and education reform have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education?

MOOCS

Leveraging the MOOC Precedent in the Age of COVID-19

(MIT Press Reader, April 7, 2020)

MOOCs, or massive open online courses, can provide guidance and even resources for schools attempting the swift conversion of entire academic programs.