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Examples of Media in Education: Shaping Curriculum
A few years ago, I worked with a professor to plan an interactive media component to help students with the concepts of a chemistry lab that spanned several weeks and several experiments. The professor found that students were having a hard time figuring out which data to use in what way when they reached the final experiment.
Continue reading >Teaching to Diverse Learning Styles
April 19, 2012
While questions as to the validity of learning style instruments can be asked, there is certainly no harm in considering the diverse learning styles of the students enrolled in your courses. In fact, having a general awareness of learning styles can help you during the course planning and development stages. For example, displaying bulleted PowerPoint [...]
Continue reading >Trends in Online Education: More predictions
April 5, 2012
It must be the season for predictions! Jes posted yesterday about the Horizon Report, and there is more to come! In the meantime, our neighbors to the north have some thoughts as well. Sir John Daniels of Ontario’s Distance Education Network Contact North introduces three trends he thinks will have a high impact on higher [...]
Continue reading >Revisiting the Horizon
March 30, 2012
Report that is! It has been a few years since we reviewed the Horizon Report and I thought it would be a good time to double back take a look at the predictions from 2010 and continue forward to the Horizon Report 2012. Just as a recap, The Horizon Report is published each year as a joint [...]
Continue reading >Motivation and the medium
February 29, 2012
In the book “Distance Education: A Systems View”, authors Michael Moore and Greg Kearsley discuss the various ways to deliver instruction. One statement that particularly resonated with me was the idea that “Motivation is a more critical variable than the medium…” The variety of instructional tools that are present today can provide both instructors and [...]
Continue reading >Seven Principles at WPI: Technology as a Lever
February 9, 2012
Several years ago – dare I say it – before blogging took off, I wrote a short piece for our TTL team e-newsletter on applying the “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education” (Chickering and Gamson, 1987) based on the follow-up “Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as a Lever” (Chickering and Erhmann, 1996). Since [...]
Continue reading >Introducing Video Workshops in the Classroom
February 2, 2012
I teach workshops on media production, often focusing on empowering students to create videos and web pages of their own, and I have plowed through all sorts of snags along the way. I’d like to take a few minutes to share with you some of the things I’ve run into, some strategies I’ve devised, and some thoughts about how all of this works. I’d also really like to hear your thoughts, ideas, and methodologies!
Continue reading >3, 2, 1…Explain!
January 25, 2012
My favorite “Explainer”, Lee Lefever, just posted a new blog about the new age of the video explanation. In it, he postulizes that perhaps 2012 will usher in a new genre for video: ”Drama, comedy, documentary, advertising and explanation.” Lee does a great job of explaining (no surprise there) why this trend is being enabled and adopted globally, [...]
Continue reading >How are our students communicating? Let me count the ways!
January 10, 2012
As the new term approaches many faculty across campus are beginning to reach out to their students. This got me thinking about the what tools our students using for electronic communication. According to the 2011 ECAR National Study of Students and Information Technology in Higher Education (http://www.educause.edu/library/ERS1103), Email and Texting are students’ two most common electronic communication tools [...]
Continue reading >LMS Unconference
December 13, 2011
WPI is pleased to be participating in NERCOMP’s LMS unSIG Unconference this March! Whether your campus has adopted an out-of-the-box learning management system (LMS), an open source solution or has developed a home-grown course management system (CMS), challenges surrounding management, deployment, assessment, upgrades, training, support, security and integration with campus resources are universal. The LMS [...]
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