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Nine Things Educators Need to Know About the Brain
By Louis Cozolino In an excerpt from his new book, psychologist Louis Cozolinoapplies the lessons of social neuroscience to the classroom. The human brain wasn’t designed for industrial education. It...
View ArticleManaging Controversy in the Online Classroom
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education The asynchronous format. An instructor in a face-to-face course can defuse a conflict as soon as it arises. “In an asynchronous online course, if a student says...
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Free webinar, March 28 – “Fostering Online Student Collaboration”
Join us in this dynamic one-hour, interactive webinar designed to share practical (and proven) strategies for helping your online students interact with each other in authentic collaboration. You will...
View ArticleThe Imminent Shakeout? Disruptive Innovation and Higher Education
by Mike Lenox One can hardly go a day without seeing an article touting the end of the University as we know it as the rise of online education, and in particular Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs),...
View ArticleConnected Learning
Connected Learning By Mimi Ito A few years ago, I conducted a study with a large team of researchers on how young people were learning through electronic games, social media, and digital media...
View ArticleTeachers’ Ultimate Guide to Using Videos
Teachers’ Ultimate Guide to Using Videos March 26, 2013 | 8:00 AM | By By Tina Barseghian With one billion monthly users (and growing), YouTube’s popularity is a pretty clear indication that video is...
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Best Practices for Creating an Online Course
To create an online course that engages and informs, you must remember that there are 3 important parts to a course. First comes the Introduction – where you introduce yourself and set the tone for...
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The Five Best Tools for Creating Videos Without Installing Software
Here are the five tools that Richard Byrne recommends for creating and editing videos without installing any special software. Pixorial is the online video creation tool that I hear teachers talking...
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3 Ways to Reduce Textbook Costs for Students
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org Textbooks earn publishers about $8 billion because students can spend over $1,000 for one semester’s required readings (source: Forbes). As a faculty member, you have...
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Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
How about attending a workshop in Hawaii? I remixed this 5 day workshop that will begin on May 13th. The workshop details are here WORKSHOP PROGRAM Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday TOPICS...
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If online students aren’t engaged, blame their teacher
mcknackus.deviantart.com By Alexandra M. PickettMarch 31, 2013 If you are boring in the classroom, you will be boring online. Here is another truth: you can’t duplicate what you do in the classroom in...
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From E-Learning to Active Learning: Transforming the Learning Environment
Experts from University College London share findings and best practices. A complimentary webinar event hosted by Times Higher Education (@timeshighered) and sponsored by Echo360 (@Echo360)....
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Flipboard Magazines make curation for your classes EASY
Flipboard is a fantastic ereading tool which has also become a premier curation tool. I’ve created a magazine Education Inspirivation that you can subscribe to in Flipboard by clicking on the...
View ArticleDrive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Do you challenge your students to mastery and to make meaningful contributions? Have you ever said to your students, “You probably want to do something interesting, let me get out of your way? This...
View ArticleHow to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents
Do you want to give students feedback about their work or have student peer editing by voice ? Then you’ll want to add the Voice Comments application from Learn.ly to your Google Drive account. Here is...
View ArticleTeach the Web: a Mozilla Open Online Collaboration for Webmaker mentors
May 2 – June 30 Learn how to teach digital literacies, master webmaking tools, develop your own educational resources, and take what you learned back to your communities and classrooms.Join us for this...
View ArticleTen Free Tools for Cropping, Resizing, and Enhancing Images Online
By Richard Byrne Pixlr is a great set of image creation and editing tools. Pixlr offers web-based image editing tools as well as image editing tools to use on Android phones and on iPhones. Pixlr also...
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Online class teaches students to have that aha moment
Ever wonder what makes the cartoon light bulb of creative inspiration turn on over someone’s head? Why some people experience more aha moments of true ingenuity than others? Stanford University...
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Tips for Creating Secure Passwords
By Sue Waters The truth is, even though we support over 2 million blogs, we only get a handful of complaints each year when it comes to inappropriate behavior or a suspected “password hack” on...
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Don’t Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills
Don’t Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills Graduation season is upon us, and that means college graduates everywhere are preparing to enter “the real world.” But chances are your liberal arts...
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