Author Archives: Wei
Interactive Video
When instructors are redesigning their courses to engage students in active learning, passively watching video clips isn’t a great pedagogy. Interactive video technique could be adopted to blend interaction and linear video. YouTube has Video Annotations feature for instructors to add interactive commentary to their own videos. It allows instructors to “add background information about the [...]
Welcome to Purdue nanoHUB-U MOOCs
NanoHUB-U courses are massive open online courses (MOOCs) broadly accessible to students in any branch of science or engineering. All courses are so far developed by Purdue University professors for worldwide audiences. Dr. Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, offered the inaugural course on fundamentals of Nanoelectronics in January, 2012. [...]
McGraw-Hill Connect and Blackboard Learn Integration
The McGraw-Hill Connect building block in Blackboard Learn allows students to access McGraw-Hill content and assessment through Blackboard Learn without logging in a second time. Their grade information from Connect is automatically added to the Blackboard Learn grade center. If an individual student takes a quiz and doesn’t perform well for one specific learning objective, [...]
Review of IDC Tools to Assess Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain
There are three types of learning identified by a committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom (1956): Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge) Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude) Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills) The Bloom group worked out details on the Cognitive Domain which involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. As [...]
Instruction Organization- Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction
I am intensively involved in IMPACT project. Every week we have faculty workshop sessions for 75 minutes covering various topics such as learner characteristics, learning goals, learning objectives, Bloom’s Taxonomy, transformation models, assessment and so on. How could faculty put all these pieces together in a lesson which make sense to them and their students? I [...]