From clickers to programs like Learning Catalytics—which data-mines to match students with discussion partners—student-response systems are becoming more and more sophisticated. But Liam Kaufman, a graduate of the University of Toronto, thinks that the key to effective feedback is a tool with fewer bells and whistles.
App Tries to Increase Student Participation by Simplifying Clicker Technology – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
12 July 2012
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A Future Full of Badges – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
12 April 2012In the grand University of California system, the Berkeley and UCLA campuses have long claimed an outsized share of the public imagination. Its easy to forget that the state system has more than two great institutions of higher education. In the heart of the Central Valley, UC-Davis has grown in a hundred years from being the “university farm” to becoming one of the worlds most important research universities. Now its part of a process that may fundamentally redefine the credentials that validate higher learning.
via A Future Full of Badges – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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How ‘Flipping’ the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture
21 February 2012It may not have the gee-whiz factor of high-tech innovation, but changing expectations for what happens in class may prove to be a bigger advance in teaching.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Kenyon College Creates Center for Innovative Pedagogy
22 September 2011The Center for Innovative Pedagogy (CIP) is primarily designed to address that hunger to learn more about teaching and learning, at Kenyon and in the larger education community. A Director and a staff of four instructional technologists work with faculty members to enhance the art and science of teaching across the curriculum.
[Source: Kenyon College]
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Learn to code | Codecademy
14 September 2011Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends.
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‘Test Kitchens’ at UC Berkeley to support experiments in active learning
10 August 2011Some classrooms at this California campus undergo changes in order to experiment with active learning.
[Source: Daily Californian]
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Getting Started with ePubs: Creating Your Own E-Book Using Apple Pages
22 June 2011Jason Rhode, Assistant Director of Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University explains how to create an ePub document using Pages.
[Source: jasonrhode.com]
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Lisa Nielsen: 6 Ways Technology Can Help Tuned-Out Students Tune In
4 May 2011“If your target audience isn’t listening to you, it’s not their fault, it’s yours.” – Seth Godin
Articles like this one – Colleges worry about always-plugged-in students – often scapegoat technology as the reason 21st century students tune out when it comes to learning. Unfortunately, it’s not unusual to hear complaints of outdated educators and administrators who have or are considering unplugging students’ access to the Internet or banning technology altogether so students will focus. These learning institutions are moving in the wrong direction!
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WIlliam Cronon, academic freedom, and writing for new media
3 April 2011William Cronon, a distinquished UW Madison faculty member, is the middle of an open records request in Wisconsin which has sparked a national debate on privacy, academic freedom, and the public interest regarding freedom of information. But that’s another story.
It turns out Professor Cronon is also interested in issues related to teaching, learning, and technology like writing for new media. While his blog of late is focused on the issues mentioned above, he also maintains a main website – williamcronon.net. In a section on the latter site, he explains the process he went through to help his students learn about, among other things, writing and generating content for the web. On this site, Cronon writes:
Although we all use the Web and all recognize that more and more of our own reading and that of our students is occurring on-line, very few of us have taken up the challenge of teaching students how to write and generate content for this new medium that has become so central to all of our lives.
He offers a thorough summary of the process he (and 15 graduate students) went through to develop resources for helping “anyone and everyone” learn about doing historical research. It’s also a good example of the time and energy required to create such resources.
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Professors of the Year Put Students in Charge of Learning
18 November 2010The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education honor four academics who share an ability to engage students in teaching themselves the subject at hand.
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