20 tips and resources for using learning technology in higher education

25 Ways To Use iPads In The Classroom by Degree of Difficulty In case you haven’t heard the news, we’re putting out a special mini-issue early next week. It’ll be available in the Edudemic Magazine iPad app and, best of all, FREE to subscribers! If you’re not (yet) a subscriber, it’ll be just $0.99. The following is an excerpt from just one of the articles in the mini-issue. It’s all about iPads in education, Apple’s role in the future of learning, and much more than that. So you’ve got one or a few iPads that you want to use in the classroom. Interactivity and British Library Sounds - Sound Recordings Have you recently visited the new British Library Sounds website and tried out its new features? The British Library Sounds website ( now has 50,000 sound tracks, all freely available for listening online. It represents the most diverse online collection of scholarly sounds anywhere, and now has improved interactive features, including tagging, favouriting, playlist generation and timed annotation features. Simply register on then those features are enabled. Registering allows you to make notes, add tags and personally manage items using favourites and playlists. An example of timed annotations is here: (& see the screen grab image below), but please do register yourself and add your own notes to other tracks. Watch this space over the next few weeks as we announce more collections that have recently been digitised and copyright-cleared for public access.

25 TED Talks Perfect For Classrooms The 50 Best Sources of Free STEM Education Online 12.05K Views 0 Likes Colleges, universities, and other educational forums in your community can be excellent places to learn more about a variety of STEM topics, but there is also a wealth of educational material available on the web for those who prefer to learn at their own pace or take a more individual approach. Cloudworks - JISC Interactive Presentation Tool | LectureTools LectureTools is the only presentation tool designed from the ground up to meet the communication needs of instructors in the classroom. The system provides real-time access to information about student activity and comprehension levels. With LectureTools you can monitor the pulse of the classroom and modify your lectures to better reach your students. Prepare Interactive Lectures LectureTools provides you with the resources to quickly augment your existing PowerPoint® slideshows with interactive questions to engage your students. Hide Specific Slides Hide specific slides from students and reveal them at the appropriate time during class. Convey Learning Objectives Create an objectives slide for the beginning of your presentation by defining the lecture's goals when importing slides. Import Existing PowerPoint Files Upload .PPT and .PPTX slides into our intuitive interface. Publish With a Single Click Your presentation remains hidden until you decide to publish it. Present Engaging Slideshows

Is Peer Input as Important as Content for Online Learning? Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flickr: Incase By Nathan Maton Back in 2001, MIT launched OpenCourseWare, a bold idea to put world-class MIT professors’ lectures, syllabi and resources online to the world for free. Today, Open Education Resources (OER) industry leaders are arguing that the free content is only the starting point. The next stage of the open education movement has evolved into Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) — the key word being “massive,” as in drawing tens or hundreds of thousands of students. But at such a huge scale, what are the digital methods of teaching that work best? “It was totally clear to me [several years ago] that content is only the starting point,” Schmidt said at recently at a SXSW session. The Stanford professors readily admit that some of the students who participated in their online courses provided their peers with deeper, more comprehensive answers than they were able to. You’d expect MIT to tout its content as the solution. Related

- To this day I remain a big fan of the overhead projector. I truly believe it was more effective a tool for teaching than the projected Powerpoint slides will ever be. I stood facing the students, watching their expressions, which I could see since the lights were sufficiently bright. I could draw on the screen and change directions as questions arose. In fact I will argue that the ‘golden age of college teaching’ if there was one was stimulated by the addition of the roller to the overhead projector. It allowed the combining of student response, just-in-time teaching, constructivist development and several other educational buzz terms in one simple device. It’s been downhill ever since, …until this semester. This semester I’ve purchased an iPad2 and a software application called SplashTop Remote Desktop. To reach this new level of teaching nirvana I have found at least two routes (so far): Google+ Like this: Like Loading...