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The Flipped Classroom: Using Podcasts to Enhance Class Time
When learning can occur outside the classroom, your face-time with students becomes that much more vibrant and engaging. Learn how you can use podcasts to enhance student engagement, promote peer-to-peer collaboration, and achieve student learning outcomes.
audio Online Seminar • Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 • 2:00 Eastern
Interactive Web Conferencing Brings Big Benefits to the Online Classroom
Interactive, synchronous web conferencing software such as WebEx, Blackboard Collaborate and even Skype are innovative tools that can be implemented by faculty teaching both hybrid and fully online courses. When faculty at Towson University began using WebEx to incorporate a synchronous component to their courses, they discovered that interactive web conferencing (IWC) delivers many benefits.
Determining the Best Technology for Your Students, Your Course, and You
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.
Wikis in the Classroom: Three Ways to Increase Student Collaboration
I’ve long said that professors who want to explore teaching with technology should begin with a social media tool rather than a Learning Management System. Web 2.0 tools are simple to use, invite student collaboration, and are usually less administratively clunky and complex than an LMS.
Recent Seminars
Learner-Centered Technology: Aligning Tools with Learning Goals
The technological tools available for learner-centered instruction continue to advance, presenting faculty with opportunities and challenges. This seminar provides faculty with a roadmap for matching the best tools to course learning outcomes.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Social Media Usage Trends Among Higher Education Faculty
Survey finds faculty divided on social media in the classroom Social Media Usage Trends Among Higher Education Faculty The popularity of social media and its rapid ascension into our daily lives is nothing short of astounding. Sites that weren’t even around 10 years ago are now visited every day. What’s more, 56 percent of the
Effective Uses of Video in the Online Classroom
How do you explain the learning objectives for your course, or each unit of your course? If you’re like most faculty, you probably put together a carefully crafted bulleted list of what you want students to learn. And, if you’re like most faculty, you probably know that most students give that list a cursory glance at best.
Finding the Right Technology to Support Learning Outcomes
Blended instruction can lead to improved student performance and lower costs. But, like anything, it only works if you do it correctly. This seminar will provide you with the knowledge needed to make smart, informed decisions about blended instruction and blended course design.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Selecting and Using Technologies in Online & Blended Courses
If you’re aware that social media and other new tools could help your students, but you’re more interested in education than jumping on the latest digital bandwagon, this seminar will give you a framework for deciding which high-tech tools are the best match for your teaching objectives and your students’ learning needs.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Digital Storytelling Can Help Boost Student Learning
Storytelling is the oldest form of education. The cave dwellers first taught their children lessons through stories. The Greeks picked up on the tradition by teaching morality through the myths. Stories capture our imagination by reaching us on an emotional level. Mere facts out of context are hard to remember. Memory experts learn long stings
