Day: October 29, 2021

The Metacognitive Continuum

This afternoon, the NIST FALCoN session featured Julie Stanton. The talk was entitled “Using metacognition to help students adapt their learning in and out of the pandemic.”Julie Stanton asked the group: what is metacognition? Stanton defined metacognitions as the awareness and control of thinking for the purpose of learning. Students develop metacognitive knowledge by, for […]
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The Inspiring OER Trilogy

Happy Friday! Tonight we watched an Open Ed session “An Open Textbook Journey: Building the ‘Consumer Behaviour Trilogy'” presented by Andrea Niosi from Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada. Niosi shared three stories (hence the trilogy in the title) that they have developed to highlight learner creation. The first OER that Niosi shared was the “Introduction […]
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