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Designing Assignments that Accomplish Course Goals | Faculty Focus
"I’m betting that many of you are in the midst of grading a large stack of papers, projects or other final assignments. Too often these end-of-course pieces of work don’t live up to our expectations or...
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It's Official: Using Twitter Makes Students More Engaged - Edudemic
"Assistant Professor of Education at Michigan State University, Christine Greenhow, conducted a study titled “Twitteracy: Tweeting is a New Literary Practice.” In it, she found that college students...
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How To Know If You're Correctly Integrating Technology - Edudemic
"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful...
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Online Learning: a Manifesto | Online Learning | HYBRID PEDAGOGY
"Much of the rhetoric currently being used against MOOCs is the same rhetoric that has been used against online learning since the 90s (and against distance education since the mid-1800s). There are...
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Foreign universities consider how best to enter the MOOC market | Inside...
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/22/foreign-universities-consider-how-best-enter-mooc-market#ixzz2IoopChSiInside Higher Ed "The rapid expansion of massive open online courses (MOOCs) has left...
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Oral historians and online spaces - OUPblog (blog)
"In November 2012, a thread appeared on the H-Net Oral history listserv with the enticing subject line “experimental uses of oral history.” Amid assorted student projects and artistic explorations, two...
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Online learning goes official as five Coursera courses get approved by the...
"Coursera announced a massive milestone today: the first big step towards credit options. The American Council on Education's College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) has made credit...
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The language of Twitter: the rise of MFL teachers online
Since spotting Twitter's power for connecting subject specialists, Joe Dale has been an ambassador of social networking. Here, he describes Twitter's impact on the MFL teaching communityAlina...
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Philosophy professor pushes students to tweet in class - Hamilton Spectator
"Jordan Shapiro’s class last week delved into a weighty discussion of Plato’s allegory of the cave and shifting perceptions of reality.Front and centre on the classroom wall behind him flashed a...
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CETIS Analytics Series: Analytics for Learning and Teaching « CETIS Publications
Alina Ghimpu-Hague's insight:A JISC CETIS study focused on the use on analytics to inform predagogic and pastoral interventions designed to improve retention rates and attainment levels. While the...
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CETIS Analytics Series: Legal, Risk and Ethical Aspects of Analytics in...
"This paper in the CETIS Analytics series covers legal, ethical and related management issues surrounding analytics in the context of teaching, learning and research and their underlying business...
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The Pedagogy of Discovery: Enabling Free Range Learning presented by Emeritus...
Alina Ghimpu-Hague's insight:Creative Commons licensed, downloadable video presentation that argues in favour of encouraging students to pursue their own specific interests independently within the...
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Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 1: Beyond the LMS | Digital Pedagogy | HYBRID...
'The invention of the LMS (Learning Management System) was a mistake. And here I'm not going to make the same frustrated argument made numerous times before now that LMSs are limiting structures, that...
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Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain | Digital Pedagogy...
'[I]n the next 10 years, digital pedagogy will become (and already is to an extent) coterminous with pedagogy. We do not, after all, talk about chalkboard pedagogy, even though the chalkboard is one of...
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EdShare Extensions
"EdShare is a set of extentions to EPrints which create rich content teaching and learning repositories with a Web 2.0 twist. The goal of the software is to make it trivial to create, share and remix...
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What Alt-Ac Can Do, and What It Can’t | Miriam Posner's Blog
I love my job, and I’m well-suited to it. But I do hope to give you pause as you consider what a university would look like if it were populated by many more people like me: flexible employees,...
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10 Pros And Cons Of A Flipped Classroom
Alina Ghimpu-Hague's insight:A balanced look at the advantages and disadvantages of flipping the traditional classroom that reinforces the view that the success of the model is highly dependent on the...
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11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning
Alina Ghimpu-Hague's insight:An annotated list of resources useful for planning, researching, and creating small projects focused mainly on classroom presentations and audio-visual storytelling. Many...
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How A Simple Checklist Can Improve Learning
From reminding us of what to pack for a trip to helping doctors perform surgery, checklists are crucial for projects that require sequential steps or a series of tasks. As Atul Gawande points out in...
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A framework for interaction and cognitive engagement in connectivist learning...
A framework for interaction and cognitive engagement in connectivist learning contextsAlina Ghimpu-Hague's insight:Aims to contribute to the construction of a more nuanced framework for connectivist...
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