More Than Just Shiny Objects (#gr8ideas)
I’m just about to deliver a keynote at Boise State’s Great Ideas for Teaching and Learning Symposium. The talk is titled “More …
Thinking about MOOCs: A Link Round-Up
As part of Vanderbilt’s Coursera partnership, I’ve been working this fall to help the half-dozen Coursera faculty here design and build their …
Better Than a Textbook?
As I’ve been talking with faculty here on campus about the Coursera initiative, I’ve discovered that I can often turn skeptics of …
The Flipped Classroom FAQ
I have another guest blog post in the CIRTL Network’s “Effective Use of Technology” learning community, this one providing a flipped classroom …
BYOD vs. Digital Distractions
Journalist Adrienne Burke profiles Top Hat Monocle, a “bring your own device” (BYOD) classroom response system, in her article for the new …
MOOCs as Participatory Culture
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged a few first impressions of the open, online education platform Coursera. One aspect of the …
Learning Analytics, Program Assessment, and the Scholarship of Teaching #EDUSprint
A few years ago my university was up for re-accreditation. Our accrediting body wanted every undergraduate major and professional program to submit …
Please Take Out Your Cell Phones
I have a blog post on mobile learning (using mobile devices like phones and tablets in education) posted over on the CIRTL …
First Impressions of Coursera
I signed up for the Coursera course on cryptography earlier this summer. The course is from Stanford University and taught by computer …
Diigo Versus Pinterest: The Student Perspective
Last month, I blogged about the choice I gave my statistics students between using Diigo and Pinterest for the social bookmarking assignments …