Apple’s television set is finally coming — and will feature video chat and voice recognition.
[Source: The Daily]
Siri, change the channel!
12 May 2012
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Prezify your slides with PowerPoint Import
7 May 2012With the release of PowerPoint Import, you can transform your slides into a prezi with just a few clicks.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Tempering the Rise of the Machines
4 May 2012The machines are rising. Soon they will be sophisticated enough to fill certain faculty roles at traditional universities. But to make this revolution work for students, academic leaders at those traditional institutions will need to broker a peace between artificially intelligent teaching programs and their human counterparts, according to a new report written by the former presidents of two prominent traditional universities on behalf of the nonprofit Ithaka S+R.
[Source: Inside Higher Ed]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
ELI Brief on iPad Usage
4 May 2012Review findings from three Indiana University faculty learning communities that spent a year studying the effectiveness of iPads for teaching and learning.
[Source: EDUCAUSE]
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Transitioning to Digital Textbooks
3 May 2012The leader of the Indiana University eTexts initiative — which will be used as a model for digital textbook-implementation pilots at five other universities — explores the advantages of transitioning to digital texts using the “course fee model” or other methods.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Harvard and MIT Partner Up to Offer Free Online Courses
2 May 2012Following announcements of a massive open online course (MOOC) partnership by three other elite universities, as well as MIT’s own MITx, Harvard and MIT have announced a nonprofit partnership titled edX to offer MOOCs from both universities.
[Source: New York Times]
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Teaching a 3,000-Student Class
1 May 2012This story looks at how one Virginia Tech professor teaches an in-person “megaclass” of 2,670 students, using technology and social media to engage students and attracting big-name lecture guests by leveraging the size and connectivity of the class.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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‘Deep’ Digital Pedagogy and the Personae of 18th-Century Satire
1 May 2012An experiment using Facebook and Twitter helped students connect with historical literature.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing
25 April 2012
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New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into ‘Flipped’ Lessons – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
25 April 2012YouTube holds a rich trove of videos that could be used in the classroom, but it’s challenging to transform videos into a truly interactive part of a lesson. So the nonprofit group TED has unveiled a new Web site that it hopes will solve this problem—by organizing educational videos and letting professors “flip” them to enhance their lectures.
The new Web site, unveiled today, lets professors turn TED’s educational videos—as well as any video on YouTube—into interactive lessons inspired by the “flipped” classroom model. The site’s introduction is the second phase of an education-focused effort called TED-Ed, which began last month when the group released a series of highly produced, animated videos on a new YouTube channel.
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