education reform

Standard-driven education reforms are tantamount to throwing the process of education into an iron frame devaluing any educational influences

Chinese schooling receives global praise – but not from China's parents or educators, who find things to admire in the UK system

Technology has changed the way people learn and access education, particularly languages. But can you successfully master a language only using online tools?

Tweetby Abigail Anaba For the past decade, I have been working in the education sector. Based on my experience, I have a few ideas on how to resolve the seeming conflict between technology and education in Nigeria. Even if I was into titles, I would not dream of calling myself an educationist, I am just […]

A new report on how to measure creativity, collaboration, and other 21st century competencies.

David Archer: Unesco taskforce report claiming consensus on global education skills is misleading – we may have 250m children in schools, but not all of them are learning

32 Characteristics Of High-Performing Classrooms

Instructional design is the strategic creation of learning experiences through intentional planning, sequencing, and data-based revision of learning.

This process includes both the ways content is accessed, and the learning needs and objectives (and how they are determined) themselves.

This puts instructional strategies, literacy strategies, curriculum mapping, standards unpacking, assessment design, digital literacy, and a dozen other facets of education beneath its umbrella.

With instructional strategies, data collection, curricular planning, personal communication, and classroom management to consider, where technology fits in to a teacher’s workday isn’t obvious—especially a…