The Rise of Regionally Accredited Competency Based Education in HigherEd I’ve been a fan of the idea of Competency Based Education since I first heard of it. It seemed like such a positive... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week …... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Students and Smart Phones Go Together Like Reading and Writing. Let’s Put Them to Use in the Service of Learning! In the U.S., and increasingly abroad, students of high school and college age... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

In Week 11 of the Try-a-Tool-a-Week Challenge we checked out ClassDojo. As with many of the fun free tools we’ve been checking out, the feedback has been quite positive. K-12 teachers use... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words The next time you’re putting together a presentation, ask yourself whether a slide can be replaced with a picture. If you can get your main point across with a... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets about education and instructional technology articles, resources, etc. (Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week …... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Honor our Fallen by Helping our Veterans To my way of thinking, one of the best ways we can recognize Memorial Day and honor those who died while serving in the country’s armed forces is to... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Teachers can Earn a Verified Certificate for Convenient, Affordable PD Back in 2012, I took a Coursera course in Operations Management, to test the waters of the new world of MOOCs. I shared my... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

Why do Schools Rarely Teach Students How to Learn? Schools are so caught up in teaching fundamentals like reading, writing, and good old "‘rithmatic", as and knowledge required to pass... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]

5 Faves I Came Across This Month … (Sorry, one of them starts automatically and there wasn’t an obvious way to turn it off). What Would the World be Like Without Teachers? Sad. Ramsey... [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!]