Jesse Martin Higher Education Expert

Jesse is a world leader in the integration of the science of learning into formal teaching settings. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge and Director at The Academy for the Scholarship of Learning. Huge advocate of the science of learning, he provides people with ideas about how they can use it in their classrooms. Jesse holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Wales, Bangor.

 
Higher Education: Learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Higher Education: Learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

If we look behind us, we can see three industrial revolutions that have occurred over the last 150 years with another right on the horizon as you can see in the figure below from Heather McGowan's The Hard Truth About Lost Jobs: It's Not About Immigration.

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Higher Education: Discussing Tick-Box Learning

Higher Education: Discussing Tick-Box Learning

Education is about learning. However, as we became fully immersed in this pandemic, everything in higher education must be accounted including tick-box learning.

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Covid, Online Learning, and Learning to Think

Covid, Online Learning, and Learning to Think

I have written literally hundreds of articles about the need for teaching people higher-order thinking skills, what they are, and how that can be done.

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Reviewing the Effectiveness of Lecturing

Reviewing the Effectiveness of Lecturing

As methods of teaching go, lectures are the most widely used (90%) method of teaching in higher education today with the least effectiveness.

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Thinking During COVID-19

Thinking During COVID-19 and Beyond

How is a stream of consciousness not thinking? We all know what a stream of consciousness feels like – it is the incessant babble that resonates in our head during almost all of our conscious lifetime. In fact, it is the defining characteristic of consciousness. If we are conscious, we have a stream of consciousness.

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