muraPOI: August 13, 2012
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Principles of User Interface Design: Joshua Porter writes twenty principles of user interface design. I take exception to #6, and to his use of “screen”-focused language (as compared with multiple interactions that can happen on the same screen)–but I get his point.
(via StartupDigest, August 10, 2012)
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Five Factors that Affect Online Student Motivation: Rob Kelly reports on Brett Jones’ MUSIC model of student motivation to “provide instructors with a guide that they can use to make intentional decisions about the design of their courses.”
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Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching: Maryellen Weimer writes about 5 characteristics, I thought these were interesting
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Anatomy of a Khan-troversy: As with anything over-hyped, there’s eventually a backlash.
And from one of the Washington Post articles linked from the EdWeek blog, Karim Kai Ani responds to Sal Khan’s response to a previous article criticizing the Khan Academy:
“The mark of effective teachers is that they’re constantly looking for the best way to communicate mathematical concepts to students. And while they may not always find it — indeed, while there may not even be a best way — it’s the pursuit that characterizes them.”
(via +Esther Wojciciki)