Deepen your Turn It In Knowledge
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 […]
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Some Resources on Digital Grading
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 […]
Use of clickers spread far and wide – NY Times
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 […]
Call for Proposals: The 8th Annual National Symposium on Student Retention
Call for Proposals: The 8th Annual National Symposium on Student Retention Abstracts due April 6 Sponsored by the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange at the University of Oklahoma New […]
After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses – NYTimes.com
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 — […]
Students Speak Out on the State of the Lecture
Kudos to the Chronicle of Higher Education for asking students directly to give their opinion of classroom lectures!
Horizon Report, Part 2
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 […]
Horizon Report 2012
We’ll be discussing this today in the CTL at noontime. Look for notes from the session next week!
Expansion of the E-Textbook: Implications for Learning
This is somewhat in-depth post about a tiff between an app developer “Kno” who produces a tool that generates supplementary digital content from textbooks, and one of the publishers they […]
Who’s the Job Creator?
An image is worth a thousand words… http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=65706
