Dr Pheo Martin's Page

What a wealth of information for students to engage with for free -- open source! The learning curve is rapidly accelerating for instructors so that we may present lesson plans that are simple and clear for students. "To tell a student, if you are not learning here, you need to go somewhere else," hopefully will include, " go into a open source repository, explore, discover, and bring back your treasure." Pheo

We have complex issues pressing the future of education. Technological advances are so promising, but the most at risk students typically do not have any personal technology equipment. Furthermore, we speak about "inclusiveness" but those "soft subjects" such as teacher attitude and presence and creating classrooms in which students feel safe from high stress environments, are avoided because these really cannot be measured. Then there are the assessment issues, which can be tantamount stress… Continue