Author Archives: Sam John

The year 2020, has been a catalyst for change across the globe. In January 2020, the United Nations Foundation published a blog post highlighting 5 global issues to watch in 2020 (Brown, 2020). The global pandemic from COVID-19 was not one of them. Yet by March 2020, the real effects of COVID-19 was being feltContinue reading “Building Community into Online Teaching”

In the previous post, we looked at how the pandemic can be a catalyst for change that forced us to engage with how we can prepare for the future and pandemic-proof our subjects. We concluded that a necessary first step would be to design the online learning curriculum around a community of inquiry (COI) (Garrison,Continue reading “A modified online Community of Inquiry”

From animals to humans and across age groups we learn to solve patterns. Whether it is an octopus escaping from a jar, a child learning to walk, solving a rubrics cube or solving a differential equation. We learn to solve problem and in some cases like when a child is learning to walk a parent,Continue reading “Problem Based Learning – Encouraging Creativity and Innovation”