By Timothy Ruback, Ph.D. I teach Political Science, I started teaching in spring of 2002, and lasted more than a decade in higher education without ever having taught an internet course. More than that, being of a certain age, I never took an online course when I...
Now available for free download are the Guidebooks for Student-Facilitated Discussion in Online Courses (Student and Teacher Editions). These guidebooks offer a practical guide for students and instructors in online courses. They offer a step-by-step guide to our...
The Berry Center in New Castle, Kentucky and the Interactivity Foundation have been collaborating on a new, long-term discussion project on Agri-Culture & the Future of Rural Life. In November, we co-hosted a developmental discussion in Lexington, Kentucky....
As the semester winds down, I am almost ready to reflect on my experience teaching Leadership in Practice at Kansas State University. As a fellow in residence in the Staley School for Leadership Studies (SLS), I engaged this course with the goal of training...
Edited by Shannon Wheatley Hartman and Dennis Boyer, this discussion guidebook explores the pressing issue of freshwater for the future. Like all of our discussion guidebooks, Freshwater for the Future is designed to encourage civil, exploratory, and developmental...
The seeds for the Agri-Culture & The Future of Rural Life Project have been planted. Co-managed by Shannon Wheatley Hartman and Dennis Boyer, this project will explore agriculture as it relates to identity, tradition, community, environment, food, as well as,...
What IF….Discussion Cards A Card Game that Improves Explorative and Collaborative Thinking Check out the Interactivity Foundation’s new discussion cards! They can be used in classrooms, workplace meetings, or even at home with the family. These cards help to...
The Interactivity Foundation has just completed the test phase of its student-facilitated online discussion guidebook. The results from 4 online summer courses suggest that the IF online discussion approach and guidebook exceed traditional online pedagogy and the...
The Interactivity Foundation is developing a discussion card game that can be used in classrooms, the workplace, or at home to help instill improved discussion practices. This game was originally developed for a writing workshop held at Dartmouth College and...
Online education went mainstream years ago. Conservative figures from the Department of Education indicate that over five million college students took an online course in 2012. The Babson Survey Research Group, which has been collecting data on distance learning...