Write an email that students will read

Again & again I hear from faculty who complain that students just aren’t reading their email. “If they read the email, they’d know the assignment was due.” “If they read the email, they’d know that the course started last week.”
Of course much of the responsibility lies with students themselves. They are expected [...]

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Learning objects? Did someone say learning objects?

“Learning Objects”, what are those? It seems like we have just briefly been swept back in time to the early 2000s. I’m not ready to recite that “Paul is Dead”, but I did listen to a learning object backward recently …” ~ Alan Levine in a comment on Stephen’s Web

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