Technology Gap
Professors think they are doing a better job with digital tools than their students believe is the case, survey suggests.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
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Tweeting in Class
DENVER — Do Twitter skeptics really believe the popular microblogging service offers no educational value, or are they just afraid of it?For W. Gardner Campbell, director of the Academy of Teaching and Learning at Baylor University, there is no question that fear of straying from the status quo has inhibited the development of Twitter as […]
SETDA forum illuminates key ed-tech trends
Attending this year’s annual State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Education Forum was like sitting through a timeline of technology integration in schools during the last few years: Participants heard about what’s now the norm (interactive whiteboards, or IWBs), what’s hot on everyone’s list (digital textbooks), and what’s on the horizon (national high school reform).SOURCE: […]
Hope or Hype on the Cloud
DENVER — Meeting in the Mile High City, it was inevitable that the 2009 Educause Conference would contain a discussion about clouds.When Melissa Woo, director of cyberstructure research at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Michael Dieckmann, CIO of the University of West Florida, squared off in a debate over the merits of outsourcing […]
Airmen Educator: General Donald G. Cook, Commander Air Education and Training Command
The general entered the Air Force in 1969 through the ROTC program at Michigan State University. He completed undergraduate pilot training at Williams Air Force Base, AZ. The general has commanded a flying training wing, two space wings and the 20th Air Force. He has served as legislative liaison in the Senate Liaison Office, on […]
Forget On-Campus Parking, Visit The Hartford’s e-Campus
Producers, CSRs, account executives and other insurance agency professionals no longer need to worry about how to keep up with professional training and other business education. They now can do this and more in a virtual visit to The Hartford School of Insurance e-Campus.
TI-ADDIE: A Trauma-Informed Model of Instructional Design
Adjusting the ADDIE model of instructional design specifically to accommodate trauma offers an opportunity to address the collective challenges that designers, instructors, and learners have faced during the current learning moment.
Changed by Our Journey: Engaging Students through Interpersonal Acknowledgment
The first article in this series argues that instructors who successfully engaged students during the coronavirus pandemic adapted their thinking, mustered courage, and put heart into their teaching. In this article, an instructor explains how she experimented with interpersonal acknowledgment in a virtual setting and discusses its continued impact on her in-person courses.
Changed by Our Journey: Engaging Students through Interpretive Discussion
The first article in this series argues that instructors who successfully engaged students during the coronavirus pandemic adapted their thinking, mustered courage, and put heart into their teaching. In this article, an instructor explains how he implemented an alternative approach to teaching—interpretive discussion—and discusses the benefits that have extended to his in-person classrooms.
A Framework for Developing an Institutional Digital Learning Strategy
The Digital Learning Strategy Guide can help institutions develop a robust, flexible, and personalized framework for a digital learning strategy informed by digital transformation.