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Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2015 Faculty Research Grant Recipients, Part 3

McCall_Dickens

Dr. Jennifer McCall (left) & Dr. Amanda Dickens (right)

We are going to spend the next few weeks spotlighting the recipients of the Spring 2015 faculty Research grants. Get to know these distinguished faculty members below!

Names: Jennifer McCall, Ph.D. & Amanda Dickens, Ph.D.

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Technology Thursday: The Ultimate Guide to Using PowerPoint Effectively

The infographic below was originally created by Cubicle Ninjas for eLearning Infographics. Click here to see the original post.

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Align your NSF DUE grant proposal with these 11 landmark works

I spent April 24, 2015, in two half-day presentations led by David R. Brown in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation.  Special thanks to my colleague Stacey Bridges for organizing these events.

The first presentation, Dave outlined how the NSF supports innovation in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) education.…

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Quality Matters Monday: Standards 2.3 & 2.4

QMIt’s Quality Matters Monday! Each Monday, we will highlight a Quality Matters standard and review its importance in an online course and how we evaluate this standard.

Today, we are reviewing Quality Matters Standards 2.3 & 2.4.

General Standard 2 addresses the necessary components that make up quality learning objectives or competencies, which establish a foundation upon which the rest of the course is based.

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Meet the New Hype, Same as the Old Hype

Quick note on Coursera founder Daphne Koller’s quote from Friday’s Wall Street Journal:

If you put an instructor to sleep 300 years ago and woke him up in a classroom today, he’ll say, ‘Oh, I know exactly where I am’

This sort of ahistoric bluster is nothing new.  …

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Meet the New Hype, Same as the Old Hype

Quick note on Coursera founder Daphne Koller’s quote from Friday’s Wall Street Journal:

If you put an instructor to sleep 300 years ago and woke him up in a classroom today, he’ll say, ‘Oh, I know exactly where I am’

This sort of ahistoric bluster is nothing new.  …

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Designing for open #TWP15

I want to attempt to address two questions posed as prompts for week 1 of Teaching with WordPress: What can you do in the context of open that you couldn’t do before? What’s your biggest challenge in designing for open? Both of those questions meet me right where I am at, at this moment in […]

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My Collaborative WordPress Experiences

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My Collaborative WordPress Experiences

I have not yet used WordPress as my own learning management system for my English courses, but I have been involved for the past 3 years in some collaborative projects on WordPress.

In 2013-2014, I collaborated with many others in the creation of an open and online technology integration PD experience which we called Open Online Experience 2013 #OOE13.…

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Blogging Bootcamp Video Review

I’ve had a half finished draft post about Blogging Bootcamp in the works since the bootcamp finished. I still hope to finish it but thought I used the excuse of the Teaching with WordPress course to post this shortish screencast.
I’ve also got a huge post about the 5Rs presentation I bungled at teachmeetGLA this week which will fit in nicely with #TWP15 too.…

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Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2015 Faculty Research Grant Recipients, Part 2

We are going to spend the next few weeks spotlighting the recipients of the Spring 2015 faculty Research grants. Get to know these distinguished faculty members below!

Karen Manning

Karen Manning

Names: Karen Manning, Ph.D., Angela Robbins, Ph.D.

University: University of Cincinnati

Title of Proposal: Increasing Student Engagement and Positive Learning Outcomes in Online Problem Based Learning through the Use of On Demand Video Feedback

Bios:

Karen Crawford Manning brings over 35 years of business experience to the University of Cincinnati faculty.

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs