Posts Tagged ‘integrating technology into your teaching’
October 26 - Determining the Best Technology for Your Students, Your Course, and You
By: Mary Bart in Teaching with Technology
The number of technologies available to both higher education institutions and individual instructors seems to grow each day. With tools that promise to increase engagement, communication, interaction, efficiencies, and learning, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. It’s also easy to make bad choices — choices that could result in wasted money, time, or learning opportunities, all the while causing undue frustration for students and faculty alike.
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.
October 5 - Using Shared Online Video to Anchor Instruction: YouTube and Beyond
By: Curtis J. Bonk, PhD. in Instructional Design, Trends in Higher Education
It was August 26, 2009. That evening I receive a phone call from someone in Japan looking to create free online math and science courses on mobile devices for youth in India using existing shared online video. The following day, I get an email from a colleague at a university in Canada who had just read my new book, The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education. Many points made in the book seemed to resonate with him except for my advocacy of YouTube videos in teaching. Like most faculty members, he was very reluctant to show the YouTube homepage to his class because an offensive video might be featured.
September 17 - Using Clickers to Assess and Engage Student Learning
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
In just 60-minutes you will learn many different questioning styles for clickers, and how they benefit your students and you. Using Clickers to Assess and Engage Student Learning provides comprehensive, pedagogical strategies to integrate the technology into current and future courses.
Dr. Peter M. Saunders is the director of Oregon State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning. He has been a teaching-learning director and educational consultant with more than 20 years of teaching experience delivering faculty/instructor development programs in educational and corporate settings.