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Teaching to Diverse Learning Styles
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 >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 >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 >Responsibly using the wild, wild world of social media
September 21, 2011
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Fair warning: This post contains more questions (we like to think of them as thought-provokers) than answers about navigating the world of social media. We’d love to hear your thoughts – please comment! Can Facebook get you fired? Or maybe worse, not even hired? Boston University School of Management Professor Kabrina Chang recently spoke about [...]
Continue reading >YouTube meet PowerPoint!
August 31, 2011
Everyone has heard the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but sometimes a picture just does not do justice to a what is being presented in the classroom. This is where video can come in! Video has been a part of classroom educational technology since 1910 (Saettler, 2004) and its use has continued to grow [...]
Continue reading >Creating Accessible Presentations
April 29, 2011
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WPI has a new Director of Disability Services starting on Monday, May 2nd and in honor of our new colleague, I thought I would do a post on designing accessible presentations. First, let’s introduce and warmly welcome Aaron Ferguson! Aaron comes to WPI from Springfield College where he served as the First-Year Success Coordinator. You may [...]
Continue reading >Cut, Paste, Fix and Repeat
March 17, 2011
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Anyone who has ever tried to cut and paste a perfectly formatted Word document into myWPI (Blackboard) has probably experienced some difficulties in doing so. Cutting and pasting from word brings a good deal of HTML-like code with the text. This HTML-like code has, in the past, been the cause of endless frustrations such as [...]
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