Wikipedia had no article on Benjamin Bloom’s 2 sigma problem (1984), and virtually no references to the observed phenomena or related studies, so I drafted one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem.
It’s little more than a stub right now, but I plan to come back to it, and I trust others–especially those in Jon Mott’s IP&T 692R course, “The 2 Sigma Problem”–will contribute to and expand the article.
The UVU campus is nearly uninhabited today as we swing into spring break. There’s no spring break at BYU, though, so I took advantage of my lightened workload to make it up to David Wiley’s IPT 692r – Intro to Open Ed course early, motivated in part by the fact that Russ Carlson, President of Blackboard, would be joining us in a discussion of the future of the learning management system (LMS) with respect to open education (more…)
Today’s session of BYU’s IPT 692R was a collaborative workshop day. The following are merely my contributions to the Google Doc, posted as per Dr. Wiley’s request (more…)
At the start of today’s class session of Dr. David Wiley’s IPT 692R at BYU, Aaron offered thanks for tithe payer contributions to BYU. In response David shoots, “Let’s figure out a way to give the tithe payer a little something back.” (more…)
The bitter cold and a late bus did not prevent me from attending David Wiley’s IPT692R course today. And though the class period was set aside to choosing “classes” for the rest of the course, several discussions bubbled up that were noteworthy (more…)
