Tag: Learning
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People with Unconventional Backgrounds Can Find Success in UX
👀 This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. Without any formal training in user experience (UX) design, I landed a job designing a platform for a business that brings in hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenue. Following this opportunity, I was accepted into a prestigious design school. In any other industry, this…
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Working around Google's reign on education
The question of whether Google impacts the way people learn is as old as Google itself. Opinions about its pros and cons are in constant flux. Fantasizing about retreating into our luddite shells of looking up information in the library is not productive. To live in today’s reality of information retrieval is to be a…
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The Value of After-Class Journals
I’m not sure why I hadn’t thought of assigning weekly journals in my class before. Despite preaching to my students every year that they should journal to bolster their learning capacity, I’d never formalized it as a learning tool within the course. This year, in an attempt to show them the value more formally, I…
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Learning how to structure a virtual class
My online lecture on Creativity, Innovation, and Critical Thinking has more than 90 students enrolled this semester. Even before COVID-19, I was constantly searching for new ways to keep the class experiential for such a large group of students. When the university announced last year that the course would be online, I had to revise…
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The pitfalls of virtual workshops
When I give a workshop in person, I don’t have to worry about whether people are familiar with the tools. Participants can focus on the activity, as the cognitive load required to use markers, Post-its, and whiteboards is minimal. These tools have clear affordances and exist in a shared space where the laws of physics…