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FEATURED POST: Social Pedagogies as a Framework for Online Learning
“A Social Network Can Be a Learning Network” is the title of my essay appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s special issue on online learning. Go read the essay, then come back here for a bit about how the [...]
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FEATURED POST: A Few Favorite Blogs about Visual Thinking
Let’s take a break from thinking about Facebook, shall we? Recently I shared some of my favorite teaching blogs and technology blogs. Today, some blogs about visual thinking: FlowingData - Nathan Yau’s blog is an impressive collection of data visualizations [...]
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FEATURED POST: Mobile Learning and the Inverted Classroom (#EDUSprint)
Number four on my list of five types of mobile learning is the use of mobile devices (smart phones, tablets, and such) as platforms for delivery course content. Frankly, I find that educational technology people often focus too much on [...]
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FEATURED POST: Learning Styles – Fact and Fiction (#lilly10)
More from the the 30th annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Ohio… The Truth about Learning Styles (Linda Nilson, Clemson University) When I asked D. Christopher Brooks what he thought about learning styles prior to Linda [...]
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Classroom Response Systems
A Few FAQs (with Answers!) on Clickers from #nercompCRS
Two weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) special interest group meeting on classroom response systems. The event was hosted at Skidmore College, and I’m sure it was a lovely occasion. I wouldn’t [...]
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Educational Technology
Questions Worth Asking about Educational Technology
Last week brought the second meeting of the committee on which I serve that has been charged by my university’s chancellor to explore how the university can use digital tools to enhance our teaching, research, and service missions. This second [...]
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Visual Thinking
Infographics, Rubrics, and a Seated Poster Session
A few weeks ago here, I wrote about a rubric for evaluating infographics that my students helped design. That rubric was created in service to the final application project in my spring stats course. Students used the statistical techniques they [...]
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Social Pedagogies
Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences
I led a workshop on social pedagogies, with a focus on social media tools that support such pedagogies, at Elon University this afternoon. This was my first full-length workshop on this topic, and I had a blast leading it. Two [...]
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Faculty Development
Revolution or Evolution? Technology and Higher Ed
I’m on a committee charged by my university’s chancellor to explore how my university can use digital tools to enhance our teaching, research, and service missions. This afternoon the committee held its first meeting, and it’s clear to me that [...]
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- RT @LangOnCourse: A new blog entry in which I argue, hesitantly and respectfully, with Cathy N. Davidson's Now You See It. http://t.co/Q ...
- Catching up on Twitter, I see #flipclass has come up at #SFUSTL and #BCeTeaching. #crossingthestreams
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