Some instructors remain skeptical of social media in education; others embrace social media as a source of course materials, a connection to field experts, and a platform for class communication.
But another instructor is taking social ……
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Loading...Finding free resources for your course can be tough, especially if you’re unsure where to look. Even if you do have sources in mind, you may have difficulty finding the right content—many of these sites ……
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Someone recently mentioned to me that “change requires giving something up.” At the time, I wasn’t sure how much I believed it, but after thinking about it for a week, I do now. Depending on what kind of change is being proposed, there’s a variety of answers to the question of what should be given up; but in more cases than not in education, based on what the conversations I’ve had, it’s the ego that’s at the center of this discussion.…
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Sometimes for logistical or financial reasons, students are unable to visit art museums. Today’s interactive technology, like Google Art and other sites like it, enables students to take an up, close and personal tourobserving every brushstroke of Van Gogh’s Starry Night without ever leaving the classroom.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Holy moly…all I can say is that SOMEONE is going to have to hit the ground running. #whoa
— Amy Collier (@amcollier) August 1, 2013
Corrected tweet: Holy moly…all I can say is that @ajsalts is going to have to hit the ground running.…
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Do your online students know how to engage with your institution’s library resources?
Bridging the gap between online students and an on-campus library is challenging for a number of reasons (perceived or real): lack of ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I read with some interest Arnold Dodge’s recent Huffington Post called It’s the Complexity, Stupid, though I wasn’t so happy with the epithet. It’s eye-catching, but I think it distracts us from complexity and reifies the very group of people he should be embracing.…
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Whether it’s lack of awareness, deliberate avoidance, or ignorance on the matter, there is a mainstream disconnect between the societal notion of education and the expansive field of education research. In education, innovators and disruptors consistently reinvent the wheel, hyping revolutionary ideas that are often unaware of existing research, replications of prior models, or proud of their ignorance of history of the field’s theory and pedagogy.…
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