New Study of Sources in Student Papers
TurnItIn has released a new whitepaper about sources for student work. For the study, they have drawn from their extensive database of student papers (112 million content matches from 28 […]
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New Study From California Community Colleges on Online Learning
From Inside Higher Ed, a new report out this month: Online Learning and Student Outcomes in California’s Community Colleges, by Hans Johnson and Marisol Cuellar Mejia. The authors found, based […]
Moodle Orientation for New and Beginner Online Faculty, August 25
On Monday, August 25th, CTL/Academic Technology will offer a three-hour workshop on beginning with Moodle, our official Learning Management System. Topics covered in this workshop will include: Alignment of course […]
Voicethread Academy is coming — May 20. Only 3 seats left!
Dear BCC Full-Time and Adjunct Faculty — Please join us for the Voicethread Academy, a day-long training in using this innovative student engagement, presentation, lecture capture, and discussion tool. Voicethread […]
Turn It In annouces “Cloud Submit” for GDrive and Dropbox
From TII: We want to tell you about a feature that will be coming very soon to Turnitin—Cloud Submit—a new option to submit a student paper to a Turnitin assignment […]
WordPress as a Student Eportfolio 1
This post begins a series exploring how WordPress (hosted by Edublogs for BCC) can serve as a student eportfolio. This post describes three justifications for considering a blog platform for […]
Dissect the Human Body
Dissect the Human Body Use Skeleton 3D Anatomy or SkeletalHD to examine the a person’s skeleton. Then, students can use body specifics app, such as 3D brain, 3D4Medical’s Images, Pocket […]
Doubts about MOOCs Are Voiced…
Inside Higher Ed has published a good review of “where we are now,” and makes a relevant linkage to the hype cycle‘s Peak of Inflated Expectations concerning MOOCs: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/09/higher-ed-leaders-urge-slow-down-mooc-train
Don’t Steal This Book – Share It!
This New York Times op-ed piece starts with talking about NYC’s new bike-sharing program — the pros and cons. Then, the article puts sharing in context. There is a new […]
More on Flipping the Classroom
This video is from a K-12 Math class, but in 3 minutes, makes the point. One can easily see how flipping and a hybrid course would dovetail well. Spend 3 […]
