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13 Ways to Learn in 2013: The eLearning Coach

13 Ways to Learn in 2013: The eLearning Coach | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Expand your learning options with this list of 13 new ways and things to learn.
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Reflections on Teaching: Learning from our Stories | Faculty Focus

Reflections on Teaching: Learning from our Stories | Faculty Focus | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Here’s a great story. A graduate student is attending a lecture being given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. She takes notes furiously, trying to capture as many of his words as possible.
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Advice for New Faculty: Start with the Syllabus | Faculty Focus

Advice for New Faculty: Start with the Syllabus | Faculty Focus | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
The ability to teach is not something that one either has or does not have. Teachers are not born. Rather, they are made, through hard work, research, continual learning, and practice.
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For Killer Public Speaking Skills, Use These Key Checklists!

For Killer Public Speaking Skills, Use These Key Checklists! | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Want maximum comfort and confidence for effective presentations? Use these checklists for the killer public speaking skills you need!
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Successful Business Speakers Know This Secret—Do You?

Successful Business Speakers Know This Secret—Do You? | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Want to be a successful business speaker? Learn how to capitalize on your greatest asset: yourself!
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Coursera "re-Members" in Larger Numbers?

Coursera "re-Members" in Larger Numbers? | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
How to measure leaning without tests, quizzes, essays, deadlines and exams in the MOOC environment? I now spent months returning to the Coursera platform to view videos just for fun and the thrill ...
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The Little Assignment with the Big Impact: Reading, Writing, Critical Reflection | Faculty Focus

The Little Assignment with the Big Impact: Reading, Writing, Critical Reflection | Faculty Focus | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Several years ago, I came across the Purposeful Reading Assignment that was reported to encourage students to read, reflect, and write about readings assigned for class.
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46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom

46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it

Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences).

The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency...


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gruppo 1 master's curator insight, May 23, 10:36 AM

Format: infographic

Target: teachers, learners, researchers

Topic: This learning application is clear, with many academic standards - including the Common Core standards - requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency.

 

Tags: infographic, Mobile learning, Education, MLearning  

Scott Compton's curator insight, May 23, 3:33 PM

A great source for working on visual literacy

Steve Skelton's curator insight, June 18, 12:37 PM

Fantastic tools to use in the classroom

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Do You Speak with Charisma? — Here are 3 Ways You Can!

Do You Speak with Charisma? — Here are 3 Ways You Can! | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Do you speak with charisma in speeches and presentations? It's easier than you think! Use these 3 simple techniques.
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Kizilcec-Piech-Schneider-2013-Deconstructing-Disengagement-Analyzing-Learner-Subpopulations-in-Massive-Open-Online-Courses.pdf

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Great insights on how to analyze and later improve MOOCs

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A Brief History of Instructional Design

A Brief History of Instructional Design | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
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via #ocTEL

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Active-Learning Ideas for Large Classes: Simple to Complex | Faculty Focus

Active-Learning Ideas for Large Classes: Simple to Complex | Faculty Focus | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
The article that proposes these active-learning strategies is written for faculty who teach large-enrollment biology courses. But large courses share many similarities, and strategies often work well with a variety of content.
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Forbes Ranks Teaching As One Of The Most Unhappy Jobs - Edudemic

Forbes Ranks Teaching As One Of The Most Unhappy Jobs - Edudemic | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
According to seemingly arbitrary ratings and rankings by Forbes, the teaching profession is one of the most unhappy careers out there.
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Good questions at the end of the post... #HigherEd

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Plagiarism is not unnatural

Plagiarism is not unnatural | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
This idea that plagiarism is not unnatural is very powerful, and the phrase is not mine, I copied it to a professor in a discussion on this topic in the social networks. The university (by the repo...
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Six Tips for Keeping Students Engaged | Faculty Focus

Six Tips for Keeping Students Engaged | Faculty Focus | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
When you look around your classroom, do you see students texting under their desks, or worse yet, right out in the open? Do you have students who skip class, arrive late or leave early, or come unprepared?
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Grab Your Audience! —12 Foolproof Ways to Open a Speech

Grab Your Audience! —12 Foolproof Ways to Open a Speech | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
You'll finally be pitching before that audience of decision-makers. But how to open your speech? Here are 12 foolproof "speech grabbers!"
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Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions

Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
First came free online courses. Now come — with a few conditions — free online textbooks.Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced...
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Very interesting initiative.

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Georgia Tech and Udacity roll out massive new low-cost degree program | Inside Higher Ed

Georgia Tech and Udacity roll out massive new low-cost degree program | Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
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First attempt that will surely have many followers, hopefully!

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Women, Academia and Science: some facts and ideas

Women, Academia and Science: some facts and ideas | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
In general, I have interest about the issue of gender in today's society, but I had not related it to the world of education and academia, so I've started to document myself. To begin with I found ...
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25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning

25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning
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5 Research Positions for PhD Candidates - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg - jobs academics.com

5 Research Positions for PhD Candidates - Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg - jobs academics.com | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
in the Research Training Group SCARE – System Correctness under Adverse Conditions funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG GRK 1765).
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5 Reasons Teachers Should Own a Domain Name | EdReach

5 Reasons Teachers Should Own a Domain Name | EdReach | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
The world of domain name ownership has changed, so step up your teaching game and buy your own domain name.
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Frequent, Low-Stakes Grading: Assessment for Communication, Confidence | Faculty Focus

Frequent, Low-Stakes Grading: Assessment for Communication, Confidence | Faculty Focus | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
After going out for tacos, our students can review the restaurant on a website. They watch audiences reach a verdict on talent each season on American Idol.
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LinkedIn Best Practices: Be Careful What You "Mention" | Social Media Today

LinkedIn Best Practices: Be Careful What You "Mention" | Social Media Today | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
For professionals looking to take advantage of the LinkedIn mention feature, I would recommend exercising caution. Here are three actions to avoid.
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Not only 4 LinkedIn I would say...

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Marketing your papers to make an impact: poll conclusions

Marketing your papers to make an impact: poll conclusions | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
The poll was posted in March 2013 in many academic discussion groups. Around 650 answers were collected and many hot comments. The question was:  What do you do MOST to increase the probabilities o...
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Google funds 'BOOC' assessment course by IU School of Education researcher: IU News Room: Indiana University

Google funds 'BOOC' assessment course by IU School of Education researcher: IU News Room: Indiana University | Higher Education and more... | Scoop.it
Google has funded an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Education to develop a "Big Open Online Course," or BOOC.
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Teaching Profs how to teach...

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