New Courses: From Concept to Development

Where do ideas for new courses come from?
As you would expect , there is not just one path for ideas or concepts to become Performance Learning Systems courses. New ideas come from college-partners, participant and facilitator suggestions, and educational trends.
College-partners
Sometimes college-partners request courses be developed for a specific degree program. This was the case for [...]

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New Course: Strategies for Middle School Science Teachers

“Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
—Jules Poincaré, mathematician, 1908
In Strategies for Middle School Science Teachers, we assume that participants already have the content knowledge—the facts—required for their positions. They can identify [...]

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New Course: Simulations and Gaming Technologies for the Classroom Online

There is a great disconnect between how we teach our children in school and how they learn outside of the classroom. Students multitask and communicate in ways that we, their teachers, were not able to as children. Technology is second nature to them and video games are playgrounds. Why not take advantage of that fact [...]

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New Course: Teaching Algebra to Middle School Students

A note about this month’s blog topic series: This month we will review some of the online courses currently in development or new to enrollment.
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You can register for Teaching Algebra to Middle School StudentsTM Online on the PLS Website: http://www.plsweb.com/graduate_courses/full_course_listing/online/algol/
“The rules and procedures of school mathematics make little sense to many students. They memorize examples, [...]

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