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“It’s National Social Media Safety and Awareness Month. Actually, there is no such thing; yet with so many awareness campaigns for other very important issues, I think it’s about time we …… Continue reading
Author Archives: Robin Bartoletti
Start Your Personalized Professional Development
Personalized professional development (PPD) means you use your personal learning networks (PLN) to develop a plan for expanding your skill sets. With your PPD plan, you determine the skills you want to focus on, like …… Continue reading
Academic Partnerships Announces Research Grant Recipients
Academic Partnerships (AP), one of the largest representatives of public universities’ online learning in the United States, today announced that it has awarded eight grants to researchers from five universities who will be studying the …… Continue reading
Game Elements for Learning GE4L July 1-29, 2013
Game Elements for Learning (GE4L) introduces participants to game elements for teaching and learning through sharing, game elements, discussion and participation in self-selected methods.
What exactly are game elements for learning? How can the elements be …… Continue reading
Meograph: Tell 4-D Stories
Meograph is your new favorite presentation tool. Without training or downloading software, you can easily and quickly create stories with video, audio (including your own narration), pictures, text, links, maps, and timelines.
You and your students …… Continue reading
Education 3.0: Learning Anywhere, Anytime
Education 3.0 is the next generation of education and the radical step enabled by the advancements in information and communication technology. Prof. Derek W. Keats argues that institutions must respond quickly to remain relevant and …… Continue reading
Digitize Your Sticky Notes with Lino
Our path to the paperless world still includes hard copy sticky notes—the colorful, cross-functional notes we rely on have avoided the digital conversion. But a web-based service called lino has captured what we adore about our sticky …… Continue reading
Why Your Students Should Do a Blog Study
Here at the Faculty eCommons, we’re constantly on the prowl for ideas and tools that make learning timely and relevant for the busy online community. We were thrilled to find another idea in George Couros’s …… Continue reading
Shifting to Quality Digital Learning with DLN Smart Series
Digital Learning Now! (DLN), Foundation for Excellence in Education, and Getting Smart have partnered up to deliver the Digital Learning Now! Smart Series.
The series, released through the rest of 2013, is a group of collaborative …… Continue reading
Instructional Design for Mobile Learning Webinars, 04/30/13 and 05/09/13
Mobile technology is a growing and powerful trend: people now spend more time on mobile apps than they do on the web. What opportunities does this powerful trend present to those who design online learning? …… Continue reading

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