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 […]
Kudos to the Chronicle of Higher Education for asking students directly to give their opinion of classroom lectures!
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 […]
This is an amazing set of sites that lets the user explore quantitative reasoning, history, geometry, populations, environment… and a host of other disciplines through interactive comparative graphics and information. […]
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This is a well-written and balanced article which refers to several research studies and current books on this topic. The conclusion? There are signs that the current generation (born 1982-2002) […]
This is an inspiring story about the power of education to transform peoples’ lives. It is worth listening to the audio for the mini-interviews of the graduates of the program. […]
What is that, you say? It is: “PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in […]
If you are interested in clickers, please ck out this resource from Harvard. Physics Professor Eric Mazur is a lead user of clickers, and has developed best practices for peer […]
These forecasts for the direction of educational technology are not surprising, as they are continuations of current directions: Mobile computing Tablet, touch screen Cloud based Personalized and engagement-based learning are […]
