3 Ways Educators Can Learn from Designers

3 Ways Educators Can Learn from Designers

When you Google the word “designer,” the first few hits are about designer handbags, shoes, and furniture. Today, however, let’s think about visual and graphic designers.  A designer’s primary goal is to communicate: anything from how to...
An Easy Way to Correlate Open Educational Resources (OERs)

An Easy Way to Correlate Open Educational Resources (OERs)

So many free and open educational resources exist on the Internet that can be utilized to enhance learning activities.   What is an open educational resource? Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are free of copyright or license...
4 Essential Steps to High Quality Communication

4 Essential Steps to High Quality Communication

Teachers have high hopes for creating open dialogues in their classrooms. They strive to build lessons that incorporate the rich skills of debate and conversations. How can teachers help to improve the communication skills of their students? Here are four strategies...