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What is Mobile Learning and Why Should Educators Use It?

Faculty eCommons

Did you know that people spend more time on mobile apps than they do browsing the web?
The popularity of mobile technology continues to grow, and it’s a powerful trend that presents opportunities for learning made ……

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What I Want My ChildrenTo Know…

This summer as in every summer for the past thirty-four years I have come home to Nova Scotia.  As usual when I slow down I have time to reflect. This summer though I have a purpose to reflect because  I am in an open educators vlogging group called openspokes.…

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4 Time-Saving Tips for Managing Email in Your Online Course

Faculty eCommons

As an instructor of an online course, communicating with students through email is a critical component of faculty-student interaction, but addressing the same questions via email over and over again can be overwhelming and time-consuming.
Give ……

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Flexible Disciplines, Flexible Boundaries, and Making Meaning

I think I have a bit more to say about boundaries, especially in terms of the boundaries that distinguish the academic disciplines. I’ve been arguing that the boundaries between, say, history and physics are nowhere near as rigid and as static as academic purists might insist, but neither are the boundaries between history and physics imaginary, capricious, and unnecessary as academic anarchists …

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Wrapping-up GE4L MicroMOOC: Participant Artifacts

Faculty eCommons

Today wraps up the Faculty eCommons’ MicroMOOC Game Elements for Learning (GE4L), a 4-week professional development MOOC in which participants explored tools and methods they might use to gamify course elements.
As the culminating activity, participants ……

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GTACHI Reflections

It’s hard to know where to begin in describing the Google Teacher Academy experience. As is often said, the two-day experience moves incredibly quickly, and you can be sure that all of our heads were already spinning from scripting, extensions, and maps by our first lunch.…

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs