An interesting short study from Babson based on responses from 4500 faculty across 2- and 4-year institutions, plus 590 adminstrators, about the effectiveness of online learning. Points of interest include […]
Mass Colleges & Universities Online held its annual conference at Bridgewater State on June 6, 2012, with 300 people and 12 vendor sponsors attending. From BCC, English professor Nicole Mooney […]
You are invited to the New England Faculty Development Consortium’s Spring conference on Friday, June 8, 2012.”Making the Technology Transparent – The Professor’s Dilemma” The conference will be held at […]
If you are interested in open educational resources, you may join this webinar TODAY at 3pm, no cost, and you don’t need to be working on the TAA grant. Here […]
Learning Assistance Association of New England Call for Proposals 29th Annual Conference – Friday, October 26, 2012 Greenfield Community College One College Drive “Student Success: There’s an App for That!” […]
Turn It In has just listed a number of live and on-demand (you can watch them whenever you want – play, fast forward, pause, etc.) available for the next few […]
From Ohio State University “6 Things You Should Know About Grading in Microsoft Word” http://ocio.osu.edu/elearning/toolbox/brief/grading-in-microsoft-word/6-things-you-should-know-about-grading-in-microsoft-word/ From Duke University Trillium project, a number of faculty blog posts on how they have […]
At BCC, several faculty have used clickers successfully for formative assessment, to increase student engagement, and to review for exams. Some textbook publishers are now offering “clicker-enabled” presentations as instructor […]
A sign of the times, to be sure. While some attribute this move to the “EB-Killer app” Wikipedia, a more reasoned view is that information is changing so quickly — […]
A group of six faculty and staff gathered in the CTL last Friday to consider the 2012 Horizon report (full report is at: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2012.pdf). The first point noted was that […]
