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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 >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 >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 [...]
Continue reading >Interested in Lecture Capturing?
August 11, 2011
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Last week you read about the new and updated e-classrooms, including several new lecture capturing classrooms. This week, I thought I’d expand a little bit more on the use of lecture capturing at WPI. As you read last week, we have installed the Echo360 technology in AK116, GH227, KH116, and SH106. That brings the total number of [...]
Continue reading >Google+ Chapter 2
July 12, 2011
Okay so now we’ve gotten invitations to the beta-release of Google+. And of course, so have many others. We have our circles, and our opinions and ideas are beginning to form. So are the ideas and opinions of many others. The Chronicle of Higher Education also has a blog post about the potential for classroom use, with [...]
Continue reading >Coming this fall to WPI…new options for student response!
June 28, 2011
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Many faculty and students on campus have requested that WPI look into the possibility of using a virtual clicker system in the classroom. Virtual “clickers” allow students to use a mobile device (Smartphone, Cellphone, Laptop, Tablet, etc) to respond to questions posed by the instructor. The TTL team has completed a review of products that [...]
Continue reading >Technology in the Classroom: Teach to your talent
April 21, 2011
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Recently, I was listening to a webinar with one of my favorite speakers in education – Sir Ken Robinson. He gave a famous TED talk in 2006 (4 million downloads!) , and then followed up with a new one in 2010, talking about the role of creativity in our school systems. Although the talk is really [...]
Continue reading >Tools we use – Screen Captures
February 14, 2011
Have you ever found yourself writing an email (or a blog post!) and wished you could just show what you mean instead of having to try to describe it? We often find that being able to quickly capture what’s happening on a computer screen is invaluable for saving time and communicating more clearly. There are [...]
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April 19, 2012
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