When students take a course, they experience more than just an interaction with course content. The learning environment includes the intellectual, social, emotional and physical environments of a ...

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) have emerged as a transformative framework within higher education, empowering students to tailor and manage their own digital learning ecosystems. By integrating ...

What we think of as traditional classrooms are fading into the past. Rigid classroom designs with rows of forward-facing seats with an instructor at the head of the class are increasingly vestiges of ...

2020 was a tumultuous year that challenged us all to consider the inequitable systems in place in our society, from policing to health care. In a recent report I created for The Education Trust, I ...

Physical learning environments (PLEs)—including classrooms, schools, and networks of facilities—play a critical role in shaping educational outcomes. The World Bank’s RIGHT+ framework offers guidance ...

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework recognizes the importance of interactions between the teaching, social and cognitive presences in creating positive and collaborative learning communities.

A key to designing informal experiences to support learning is to clearly articulate the goals for a particular experience. That is, what should participants learn through their experience? In this ...

In 2009, researchers compared maternal complications of delivery and stratified the complication rates into quintiles of residency programs based on where the delivering obstetrician completed their ...

Imagine walking into a chemistry lab, beakers and chemicals laid out on the table ready for the day’s experiments to begin. Beyond your table are 30 identical tables with the same setup. You pick up a ...

Thirty unique, energetic learners enter a bright, welcoming 4th grade classroom. The students’ academic levels span an incredible range–from kindergarten-level skills to almost high school-level ...

Real organizational learning happens when leaders intentionally decide how reflection, feedback and experimentation are going ...