A Dialogue for Engagement
How do you know a student is engaged in your course? What steps do you take to foster engagement? These are questions that every instructor begins to ask as they are doing course design as it is...
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EdTech Travels to SLOAN-C Conference on March 28-29, 2001
The Educational Technology group (at least the “Ed” side consisting of Meg Brady, Angie Hammons, Julie Phelps, Barb Wilkins, and Malcolm Hays) are traveling to the 8th Annual Sloan Consortium...
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Bb World 2011 — Pedagogy and Online Learning: Training Users in Backwards Design
Presenters: John Doherty — Instructional Designer, Northern Arizona UniversityWally Nolan — Lead Instructional Designer, Northern Arizona University Both presenters started out by stating that online...
View ArticleAlternative Assessments with EdTech on April 18
EdTech is hosting an eLearning Community of Practice event on Wednesday, April 18, in Norwood Hall Room 208, from 2 – 3:30 p.m. The focus of this event is using alternative assessment techniques and...
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AMY’S PONDERINGS: Addressing Failure Rates in Introductory Courses
— Written by Amy Skyles — With the increase in class sizes and workload for faculty, it’s often difficult to gauge student learning from day to day. Designing a course to include several formative...
View ArticleInfographic: The Power of Online Schools
Online schools are growing in popularity these days, along with MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, where students can simply enroll (or just take the course for free) and receive online education....
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Call for Presentations: Missouri S&T Teaching and Learning Technology 2014...
Educational Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the Seventh Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 13-14, 2014. Interested presenters can download a...
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“Thinking About One’s Thinking” Metacognition | Center for Teaching |...
Vanderbilt University Source: cft.vanderbilt.edu This link has two articles in it. It defines what Metacognition is and gives some practical ways to implement it in learning. How often do you stop...
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Metacognition And Learning: Strategies For Instructional Design
“Metacognitive strategies facilitate learning how to learn. You can incorporate these, as appropriate, into eLearning courses, social learning experiences, pre- and post-training activities and other...
View ArticleInstructors: October 23rd is Active Learning Day–Learn How to Get Involved!
Last year, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced Active Learning Day as part of a nationwide effort to improve STEM higher education. Today, Project Kaleidoscope of the...
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