Campus Tech Virtual Conference May 12 in the CTL
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Teaching & Learning
How to Get a Real Education at College
This Wall Street Journal article depicts the questionable path that Scott Dilbert of cartoon fame took in his early career. His points? Write simply and Use persuasion. Looks like it […]
Improving learning in online courses – SUNY Online Research
SUNY Online has posted their current research results here: http://www.slideshare.net/alexandrapickett/sln-research-update-2011-sln-solsummit While skimming their work on “learning presence,” like anyone, I skipped to the last slide, where a tool called SNAPP […]
“Digital Is” Resource for teaching writing in the digital age
This looks worth perusing and possibly joining if you teach writing or incorporate writing in your assignments: http://digitalis.nwp.org/ “The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and […]
Education Lecture at the Colonial, April 27
Dr. Richard DuFour Featured Speaker at Upcoming Education Lecture Series Pittsfield, Mass. – Free tickets are now available for the next Education Lecture Series program sponsored by The Legacy Banks […]
Teaching to the Text Message
An interesting opinion piece written by a college professor who teaches Freshman English: “I’VE been teaching college freshmen to write the five-paragraph essay and its bully of a cousin, the […]
Lecture on Race and Economics at MCLA
What Will It Take to Sustain Online Accessibility?
Once again, we are warned that the very technologies that offer so much to students (low cost, multiple platform support, social media interfaces) have not been made fully accessible. Please […]
Salman Khan’s Idea – from TED
Founder of the Khan Academy explores the approach of lectures by video that students view OUTSIDE OF CLASS, and reserving class time for doing homework. What do you think of […]
WebAIM posts screen reader user survey
The findings are below. Items of note for BCC: Mobile readers are growing at a similar pace to every other mobile usage – which calls out for a mobile strategy […]
