At the recent Ryerson University Faculty Conference I presented this poster to familiarize faculty members with LibraryBox and how it might be used in their teaching and research. At the poster venue I had a LibraryBox for testing and had a good stream of visitors from a wide range of departments in the University – Nursing, Engineering, New Media, Sociology and Architecture. …
The Web in Your Pocket: Distributing Digital Resources using LibraryBox
At the recent Ryerson University Faculty Conference I presented this poster to familiarize faculty members with LibraryBox and how it might be used in their teaching and research. At the poster venue I had a LibraryBox for testing and had a good stream of visitors from a wide range of departments in the University – Nursing, Engineering, New Media, Sociology and Architecture. …
Quality Matters Standard 4: A Review
Over the next two weeks, we will be going over each Quality Matters Standard and pointing you towards suggested Faculty eCommons resources that apply to each standard. Today, we will continue with Quality Matters Standard 4.
QM Standard 4
Instructional materials are sufficiently comprehensive to achieve stated course objectives and learning outcomes.
How DO we develop Digital Citizenship
It is now week two of #DCMOOC.
I am so thankful to be part of this wonderful community and its collective body of knowledge. Our multi-level, multi disciplinary network provides a wealth of perspective and inspiration on how to assist students into developing into the best that they can be.…
The Problem with The MOOC Problem
My first postdoctoral publication was last week at Hybrid Pedagogy, an article about the lack of agenda or cohesion among educators in a fluctuating higher ed landscape. In it I call for educators to do a better job both in defining their purpose as educators (similar to what Morozov advocates for as an intellectual agenda) and ask them to better advocate for seats at practical Future of Education discussions, those on organizational and political levels rather than in conference proceedings and in academic journals. …
Quality Matters Standard 3: A Review
Over the next two weeks, we will be going over each Quality Matters Standard and pointing you towards suggested Faculty eCommons resources that apply to each standard. Today, we will continue with Quality Matters Standard 3.
QM Standard 3
Assessment strategies are designed to evaluate student progress by reference to stated learning objectives; to measure the effectiveness of student learning; and to be integral to the learning process.
Is Access our Strategy for Equity?
A Carcast about how we might be able to focus on Access as our strategy for reaching all students and meeting their needs.
It stemmed from a roundtable on the topic of Access and Equity in 1:1 or BYOD programs, which you can find here: https://plus.google.com/events/cacm97a08ckpdbc8p2v74m89628…
Do We All Need to be on an Action Plan?
Twitter chat Storify: What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise?
I published a Storify of the May 20 Twitter chat What does it mean to lead, in a networked enterprise? that includes discussion (and resources) focused on the following questions:
Q1: Imagine we are in a business/organization that truly embraces enterprise social networks as key to success.…