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Web 2.0 Tools for Lifelong Learning in Online Courses
Just because your students are tech savvy doesn’t mean they’re effective online learners. In this seminar, you’ll find out how to give your students the skills they need to be successful at self-directed learning while in school
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
Save Time and Teach Better with Screencasting
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.
Embedding Web 2.0 Tools into Your Course Management System
If Web 1.0 was about information, then Web 2.0 is about sharing information. This second generation of the web is more personalized, more collaborative, and more engaging. Is it any wonder faculty are looking for ways to leverage these capabilities in their courses?
Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
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.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Twitter in the Classroom: Studies Find Increased Student Engagement
With interest in Twitter on the rise, many instructors continue to grapple with the question of whether it has a place in the college classroom. And, if it does, what is the best, most effective way to use it? So perhaps it comes as no surprise that we’re starting to see studies on the use of Twitter in both traditional and online courses.
Technology Trends in Higher Education: How Web 2.0 Tools are Transforming Learning
It wasn’t all that long ago that the only people using Web 2.0 applications were Millennials and other early adopters. Today Web 2.0 tools are making serious in-roads into the higher education community as valuable weapons in today’s teaching arsenal. And while it’s no surprise that students are drawn to these applications, what may be
