Posts Tagged ‘wikis’
October 3 - Wikis in the Classroom: Three Ways to Increase Student Collaboration
By: John Orlando, PhD in Teaching with Technology
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.
December 9 - Using Wikis for Collaborative Learning
By: Rob Kelly in Online Education
If you are looking for ways to facilitate collaboration among students, consider using a wiki—a website that contains pages that can be easily created and edited by multiple users. Several characteristics of Wikis make them excellent choices for projects that involve brainstorming and research and that require a final report, says Rhonda Ficek, director of instructional technology services at Minnesota State University Moorhead.
September 8 - Integrating Social Media into Online Education
By: John Orlando, PhD in Online Education, Teaching with Technology
Many people take it on faith that online education must be run through a learning management system (LMS) like Blackboard, Angel, etc. Those systems were originally designed to allow faculty to move their courses online without having to learn HTML coding. They provided all of the tools needed to deliver an online course in one package.
August 16 - Nine Ways to Customize Learning Experiences
By: Mary Bart in Instructional Design
In every course there are certain core concepts and principles that are important for each student to learn, develop into useful knowledge, and apply appropriately. What’s not important is how they learn these core concepts.
June 7 - Blogging to Improve Student Learning: Tips and Tools for Getting Started
By: John Orlando, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching with Technology
Most universities press their faculty to add technology to their classroom by adopting the Learning Management System—Blackboard, Moodle, etc. This is a mistake. Faculty often end up spending hours learning the system and loading the same content that they use in the classroom, and finish wondering if the benefit was worth the effort.
May 26 - Wikipedia in the Classroom: Tips for Effective Use
By: John Orlando, PhD in Effective Teaching Strategies, Teaching with Technology
Most academics consider Wikipedia the enemy and so forbid their students from using Wikipedia for research. But here’s a secret that they don’t want you to know—we all use Wikipedia, including those academics.
April 5 - Considerations for Your Wiki Projects
By: Baiyun Chen, PhD. in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
Wiki technologies are being used by many instructors and students as an effective tool for a variety of collaborative projects, such as composing group papers, creating a rich knowledge base, managing projects efficiently, and forming virtual communities. The benefits of using wiki tools include ease of use and collaboration, good instructor control, and anytime/anywhere accessibility.
December 14 - How Wikis Streamline Student Collaboration Projects
By: Mary Bart in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
Utter the words “group project” and you’re likely to hear at least a few groans from your students. The reasons for their dislike of group work are many, but logistical difficulties of getting everyone together and lazy group members who don’t pull their own weight are two of the biggest complaints.
October 23 - Designing an Effective Collaborative Wiki Project
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
In this 90-minute seminar Rhonda Ficek, Ph.D., explains why wiki projects are the perfect way to streamline and support collaborative learning initiatives for both traditional and online students.
August 25 - Eight Ways to Support Faculty Needs with a Virtual Teaching & Learning Center
By: Kathleen MacDonald in Faculty Development
Teaching and learning support professionals, particularly those who must perform miracles as a “Department of One,” can have one of the most challenging jobs on campus. They not only support the course design, content delivery strategies, technology integration, and training/orientation for faculty and students in online learning programs (asynchronous and synchronous formats), but they also support all other teaching/learning needs for classroom, blended, and any other teaching environment. This professional may be an instructional designer, an educational technologist, or very often, a designated faculty member with some or all of these skills.
