Posts Tagged ‘instructional technologies’
August 18 - Save Time and Teach Better with Screencasting
By: John Orlando, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching with Technology
It is critical to spend time training your students how to properly use the systems you’ve adopted into your teaching repertoire. A common fallacy is to believe that because students today are “digital natives”—meaning that they grew up with technology—they are good at using any technology. I’ve found that students’ understanding of technology is narrow and deep. They are very adept at text messaging and navigating Facebook, but they are not versed in using blogs, wikis, document sharing systems, and the like.
March 5 - Does Teaching Online Really Take More Time?
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
There are certain widely held ideas about how time is used in distance education. One is that distance education “takes more time” than face-to-face teaching. This is one of those axioms that people accept and repeat, but don’t think about. Because as soon as you start to think about it, questions arise: Exactly what takes more time? Course development, or teaching? How much more time does it take? Does it take less time to teach the second time you teach it? What about the third? What takes longer to master—the technology, or online pedagogy?
February 25 - Teaching with Technology: A More Meaningful Learning Experience Starts with Two Simple Questions
By: Amber Dailey, PhD, B. Jean Mandernach, PhD, and Emily Donnelli in Effective Teaching Strategies
We are bombarded with information about online course supplements and the newest interactive multimedia components, all touted as the best approach to engage today’s learners in the online environment. Dedicated practitioners puzzle over how, when, and where to incorporate multimedia within their online courses and further agonize over the potential effects of choosing not to do so.
February 4 - Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Teaching with Web 2.0 technologies can transform and reinvigorate your classes while unleashing student and faculty potential. This seminar will help you find the most powerful online applications and explain how to put them to work in your classes.
February 2 - 2010 Horizon Report Identifies Six Technologies to Watch
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have released the 2010 Horizon Report. The annual Horizon Report features the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a long-term research project that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry within higher education.
December 11 - Redesigning Learning Spaces to Improve Teaching and Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
The most effective college renovations don’t just happen. They begin with the idea of engaging learners through classroom redesigns. This seminar will showcase innovative ways to incorporate the latest technologies into powerful new learning spaces.
December 10 - Supplement Classroom Learning with Screen Capture Software
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Reinvigorate your courses by expanding learning beyond the confines of the classroom. Discover how to screencasting and other instructional technologies can help make face-to-face class time more productive.
June 30 - Millennial Faculty Are Coming. Are You Ready?
By: Rob Kelly in Academic Leadership
Don’t look now but it won’t be long before Millennial faculty arrive on your campus as well. For four-year institutions, the first wave of Millennial faculty should arrive by 2013. For community colleges, where many faculty often are not required to have doctorates, the wave will arrive even sooner.
