So, as always at the end of the school year, I begin to consider what I did this year that worked, and what I did that didn’t work. I think about what I will do next year that will be revolutionary… Revolutionary.…
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Loading...Thank you Faculty eCommons Community—your votes landed us on EdTech’s Dean’s List for higher education blogs!
EdTech released its second annual collection of the top 50 higher education blogs, The 2013 Dean’s List: 50 Must-Read Higher ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...One of my favourite parts of #etMOOC was our time exploring open learning. @cogdog (Alan Levine) collects stories of open learning and sharing here. It is a concept I am committed to, and my own personal stories of open sharing are dear to me.…
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When I found this particular MOOC and considered joining it (knowing I was starting grad school and was about to begin the BIG class project about midway through it) I looked at it as an opportunity to connect what I was learning in grad school (I’m working on a Masters in Educational Technology) to what I want to do in my classroom.…
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From DSC:
Though the title of this article I wrote says 10 years, it may be more or less (and given the pace of change, I would lean towards sooner rather than later).
If you haven’t read Christensen’s/Horn’s/Johnson’s work re: disruption — such as Disrupting Class and/or The Innovator’s Dilemma — it would be worth your time to do so.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The professors who make the MOOCs – from The Chronicle by Steve Kolowich
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Like many professors at top-ranked institutions, Mr. Sedgewick was very skeptical about online education. But he was intrigued by the notion of bringing his small Princeton course on algorithms, which he had taught for five years, to a global audience.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...With the constant push towards integrating technology into teaching practices, educators have asked, “Does technology really make a difference for learning?” According to Richard Culatta, deputy director of the Office of Educational Technology, it all depends on how you’re using technology in your pedagogy.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Research suggest that students retain knowledge best when they are actively involved in the learning process. Multimedia, Web 2.0 and Social Networking tools enable student-to-student and student-to-content communication that can improve knowledge through rapid publication, personalization, content sharing and creation. Using these tools can help with enhancing learning in online courses.…
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I had the great pleasure this morning to speak with TALONS alumni Liam St. Louis, Jonathan Toews, Clayton Dowdell, Megan Edmunds, Zoe Fajber and Iris Hung (along with Verena Roberts & the #ETMOOC crowd via Google Hangout) about the experiments and experiences in Open Learning we’ve embarked on in their four years at Gleneagle.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Professors’ Big Stage – op-ed from the New York Times by Thomas Friedman
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I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”…
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