IELA Blog

How to teach educational ethics has become a challenge in its own right. The Harvard Graduate School of Education and custom e-learning studio Illumina Interactive partnered to meet that challenge by designing an engaging, interactive, multimedia case study and then creating an online course around this case study…

Spatial intelligence is the capacity to visualize in one’s mind the positions of objects, their shapes, their relations in space to one another and the movement they make to form new spatial relations. This ability to perform spatial reasoning in one’s own head is essential for mastering abstract ideas in STEM…

Professor Leire Nuere Salgado is not afraid of change. In fact, during the uncertainty of the pandemic, she spearheaded a community of educators from Universidad Francisco de Vitoria’s faculties of psychology, education, online learning, digital transformation and innovation, along with experts…

I spoke with Matthea Marquart, Assistant Dean, Online Education, Columbia University School of Social Work (CSSW), about the recent project she spearheaded to help instructors meet the teaching challenges of the pandemic. This project, Webinar series to support faculty who are new to teaching online…

The e-learning course Driving the Courtesy Van with CARE won the 2020 International E-Learning Award for the best product in the e-learning category. The course was developed by EnVision Performance Solutions, which is based in Boston, Massachusetts. I recently spoke with Irene Stern Frielich, President of EnVision…

Babbel Language Learning Podcasts” won a 2020 international E-Learning Award for the best product in the “mobile learning” category. These podcasts were developed to be used either as stand-alone products or as fully integrated parts of the Babbel language learning website application…

At the recent ICELW 2020, the 13th International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace, which was held online an international panel of experts, chaired by ICELW Conference Chair Dr. David Guralnick, discussed e-learning during this tumultuous time. The panelists were…

Veronica Chehtman is currently the Learning Technologies Manager at AySA. Previously, she has worked with an array of organizations, including AVON, Banco Hipotecario Banco Provincia, Cablevisión, ExxonMobil, DIRECTV, Mercer, and The Clorox Company, among others. She has also consulted for NGOs…

Dr. Ryan Baker is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the Penn Center for Learning Analytics. His research on Learning Analytics spans the fields of Educational Data Mining and Human-Computer Interactions. Dr. Baker will be giving a keynote speech at the ICELW 2020…

I recently spoke with Professor Antonella Poce, an Associate Professor (and qualified as a Full Professor), in Experimental Pedagogy at Roma Tre University in Rome who has extensively studied Critical Thinking (CT) in depth. Professor Poce sees CT skills as essential, especially for educators and especially at this time…

One day, my 85-year-old mom asked me to teach her “the computer.” She had no idea what was involved, but she just had a sense that this would somehow make her increasingly-restricted life a little fuller. I was skeptical that learning how to use a computer would positively affect my mom’s life—but it turns out she was way ahead of me on this…

Suppose you are a medical student in training, learning how to evaluate patients in a cardiac emergency room. Ideally, you want to perfect your skills before you see an actual patient. You have limited time and resources. The emergency room setting is always busy and sometimes understaffed. Usually time is of the essence…

Professor Gila Kurtz would probably make a fine Jeopardy player—guessing the questions when given the answers. Her mind just works that way. She examines the latest technology and then defines the problem(s) these tech solutions could solve…