Wrapping a MOOC: A Case Study in Blended Learning
Cross-posted from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog: Last fall, Vanderbilt computer science professor Doug Fisher “flipped” his graduate-level course on machine …
Article: Higdon et al. (2011) – Word Clouds for Free-Response Questions (#EDUSprint)
Reference: Higdon, J., Reyerson, K., McFadden, C., & Mummey, K. (2011). Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as student response pedagogies. EDUCAUSE Quarterly 34(1). …
Research on Classroom Respsonse Systems at the 2011 AERA Conference
Dan Robinson, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, let me know that several of his …
Clickers and the “Last Technology Holdouts”
Jeffrey R. Young’s Chronicle article, “Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom,” has apparently struck a nerve among …
Teaching Math with Clickers: Addressing Misconceptions with Prediction Questions
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
Article: Williams & Boyle (2008) – Clickers in Courses for Multiple Majors
More from my round-up of articles on clickers in the health professions. This time, another article that doesn’t add much to the …
Article: Cain & Robinson (2008) – Clickers in the Health Professions
Back in January I gave a keynote talk at the Health Professionals Education Research Symposium hosted by Nova Southeastern University. Part of …
People to Know (Ada Lovelace Day Edition): Angel Hoekstra
Today, as you may have heard, is Ada Lovelace Day, a day in which bloggers are encouraged to write about women in …
Article: Debourgh (2008) – Using Clickers to Promote Critical Thinking in Nursing Education
Reference: DeBourgh, G. A. (2008). Use of classroom “clickers” to promote acquisition of advanced reasoning skills. Nurse Education in Practice, 8(2), 76-87. …
Article: James, Barbieri, & Garcia (2008)
Reference: James, Mark C., Barbieri, F., & Garcia, P. (2008). What are they talking about? Lessons learned from a study of peer …