Daymi's media-ownership Bookmarks on Delicious. Announcing #Alt-Academy. Readers of this blog will know that, for more than a year, I have been working with a group of wonderful people to bring an edited collection collection of essays and a distributed, online community into focus. (You can see some of my past #alt-ac writing here, or follow the conversation on Twitter.) Today, I’m very pleased to announce the release of #Alt-Academy, an open-access collection of essays, dialogues, and personal narratives on the subject of alternative academic careers for humanities scholars: As a MediaCommons project, #Alt-Academy takes a grass-roots, bottom-up, “publish-then-filter” approach to community-building and networked scholarly communication around the theme of unconventional or alternative (“#alt-ac”) careers. 24 essays and multimedia contributions are currently available under a Creative Commons license.
The work of such institutions is enriched and enabled by capable “alternative academics.” George Veletsianos | A place to log ideas and thoughts. Blog U.: Technology and Learning. Jonathan's ID. Big Dog, Little Dog. Tomorrow's Professor Postings. Experiencing E-Learning. Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online. J. V. Boettcher, Ph.D. Designing for Learning 2006 - 2013 Minor revisions May 2011 Our knowledge about what works well in online teaching and learning is growing rapidly and that is very good news. Here are ten best practices for anyone just getting started in the online environment. Best Practice 1: Be Present at the Course Site Liberal use of a faculty's use of communication tools such as announcements, discussion board postings, and forums communicate to the students that the faculty member cares about who they are, cares about their questions and concerns, and is generally "present" to do the mentoring and challenging that teaching is all about.
When faculty actively interact and engage students in a face-to-face classroom, the class develops as a learning community, developing intellectual and personal bonds. We have learned to quantify what it means to "be present. " Note: Students who feel abandoned or who feel alone may even post questions, such as "Is anybody there? " References. The Xplanation. Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning | Home. EnhancED | Enhancing Education. The (Ongoing) Case for Google Drive Microsoft’s Office is the most-used office productivity suite in the world. Redmond claims that one-in-seven humans currently uses the suite.
The software is complex; Word itself boasts nearly 1,200 menu items according to an intrepid Google Forum user, Pat... Flipping the Biochemistry Classroom: Making Room for Real-World Problem Solving Columbia University Professor Brent Stockwell came to the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) in the summer of 2013, wanting to talk about his biochemistry course, and what could be done to improve it.
EdX: The First Year Working Papers Released Researchers from Harvard and MIT have sifted through data from 17 edX courses to produce a series of working papers on the first year of open online courses. Mozilla's Web Literacy Standard and Its Implications for Educational Technology Wikispaces Adds Quizlet and GeoGebra Widgets for Improved Student Engagement. Tools for metacognition. Metacognition is an important part of intentional learning, since it involves actively thinking about what you know, what you don’t know, and how you can get better at knowing and applying what you know. A mantra for metacognition State the learning problem with some specificity: identify what you want to know and what you want to do with that knowledgeChoose strategies to solve the learning problem—draw upon your own prior knowledge and the knowledge of othersObserve how you used the strategies—keep a learning journal or blogEvaluate the results: What worked?
What didn’t work? Rinse and repeat: Apply successful strategies to new learning problems By definition, metacognition involves individual commitment and reflection. However, research suggests that a learner’s ability to learn can be increased when an instructor spends some time discussing and helping students to use metacognitive strategies (Azevedo & Cromley, 2004; Scruggs, 1985).
How you as an instructor can help A “So what? Apps Marketplace - EDU. eSchool News, School Technology News and Resources for Today's K-12 and Higher-Ed Educators. 22 Books For Beginner Instructional Designers. Rethinking Gagnes Nine Steps of Instructional Design. 30 Top Online Resources For Instructional Designers To Keep Up With.
Instructional Design Toolkit. ID - Instructional Design or Interactivity Design in an interconnected world? Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content.
If we do so, then almost invariably their approach is around developing content in an ‘instructionally-sound way’ to produce a set of ‘learning interventions’. I have a real problem with this approach and the thinking behind it. It simply isn’t appropriate for the needs of the 21st century knowledge industry, and is arguable even more inappropriate for those whose work is carried out with their hands rather than with their minds.
Let’s Forget About Events Undoubtedly instructional design is crucial if the mindset is learning events – modules, courses, programmes and curricula. From Content to Activity The vast majority of structured learning is content-rich and interaction-poor. Ebbinghaus and All That. Scrunchup. Wired Campus. Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog. Each year we run the numbers to see which items drew the most reader attention, and this year’s list highlights a continuing interest in understanding how technology — and online education, in particular — might change college as we know it.
And while massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 article… Each year The Chronicle profiles key innovators who are tackling big challenges facing campuses with the help of technology. And we’re looking for your suggestions. The goal of the project is to look across all aspects of the college world — teaching, scholarship, administration, libraries, student life, and more. Photo by John T. College Park, Md. — Standing in a virtual-reality lab at the University of Maryland here, Ramani Duraiswami passed around a standard pair of headphones. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done.