Lessons Learned from Vanderbilt’s First MOOCs
Last month, I shared on the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog a report on Vanderbilt’s first three MOOCs. I’m cross-posting that report …
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 …
Clickers in the News
Classroom response systems have certainly made some headlines lately, probably because the start of the fall semester is a good time for …
Backchannel (and Me) in the New York Times
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel for a story on the use of …
The Backchannel – Dealing with Distraction, Incivility, and Unfairness (#EDUSprint)
This week the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is organizing a five-day “sprint” on mobile computing in higher education. Yesterday, I blogged about …
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). …
Connecting with Participatory Culture – Clickers and Deep Learning
Today is day two of my visit to Georgetown University thanks to the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS). …
What Happens When Everyone Has a Voice
I’ve been following the recent and ongoing protests in Tunisia and Egypt, as I’m sure many of you have. (Watch Al Jazeera …
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 …