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Students who have an exaggerated belief they have a right to success are more likely to struggle come exam time, a University of Otago study shows.
The First Condition of Online Engagement: Awareness
Via Jenny Pesina
This book presents a range of techniques that self-motivated learners can use to connect with each other and develop stronger communities and collaborations. The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in how learning works, whether you’re an educator, a hobbyist, an artist, a home-school student, an employee, a parent, an activist, an archivist, a mathematician, or a tennis player. The book was written by a bunch of people who think learning is cool.
Via Nik Peachey
The best way to drive student achievement is to meaningfully connect with students. The best way to do that is through technology.
What are conditional activities? Since the introduction of Moodle 2, it has been possible for users to track which activities/resources they have completed. This means that resources/activities are ‘aware’ ...
The creativity of higher education innovators has produced three categories of solutions with the potential to break the "iron triangle" of cost, quality, and access.
Do certain personality traits increase students’ chances of success in the online learning environment? It’s an intriguing question that has not receive
Publication » Second Life: Harnessing Virtual World Technology to Enhance Student Engagement and Learning. ABSTRACT Technology is often used in higher education to deliver a range of online materials to students. Most commonly this online delivery occurs through learning management systems such as Blackboard, Moodle and Sakai. However, with the emergence of virtual worlds there is an opportunity to harness this technology to enhance student engagement and learning in new and innovative ways. Outlined in this paper is an examination of how Second Life has been used in three pilot studies at the University of New England and argues that there are effective gains to be made in the future by using this medium for learning and teaching, particularly for off-campus
To established members of the higher education community, the idea of using digital badges to mark academic accomplishments might seem juvenile, like getting a gold star on a kindergarten alphabet test instead of a real grade. However, many of the academics who are tied to technology see badges as harbingers of an educational revolution, and they might be right.
Online education has been around for a long time. But massive open online courses are finally making it respectable. Maybe even cool. Let’s not forget, though, that they are still experiments.
Via Susan Bainbridge
A Georgetown professor uses Google+ to transform a classroom full of students into a community of learners. See how.
Are your students reading what you're displaying? Professor of Instructional Technology Scott Fredrickson and Associate Professor of Educational Administration Patricia Hoehner, both of the University of Nebraska at Kearney, provide eight factors to consider when presenting text for online courses.
A Kansas State University scholar finds himself rethinking the fundamentals and questioning whether technology is the best way to engage students.
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Facebook is a popular social networking site. It, like many other new technologies, has potential for teaching and learning because of its unique built-in functions that offer pedagogical, social and technological affordances. In this study, the Facebook group was used as a learning management system (LMS) in two courses for putting up announcements, sharing resources, organizing weekly tutorials and conducting online discussions at a teacher education institute in Singapore.
Via Susan Bainbridge, Peter Mellow
Understanding learners’ experiences in the online classroom help you improve your courses for current and future students and help build a strong learning
If you’re studying for a degree online, it might help to know what educators know about online learning — the news, policies, processes, technology, culture and resources that are pushing online education into the future. The following 50 educational blogs you should know about as an online university student are just a smattering of all the blogs available on the Web. These particular blogs are updated, and many have been online since the advent of online learning.
The traditional classroom is like a blackjack table. You must visit the facility in order to participate. Sessions start when the leader says so. There are relatively complex rules in order to participate. The session proceeds in a manner that is not individually tailored to your preferences. And sticking with it requires a focus on the long-term goal (i.e., earning a degree, or winning back your money). Enter digital technology. As in gambling, technology is important in higher education not in and of itself, but because it enables three developments that will make learning much more effective, and perhaps addictive.
Less than 10 percent of MOOC students, on average, complete a course. That's the conclusion of Katy Jordan of Open University, who published her analysis, pul
Via Nik Peachey, Dennis T OConnor, Peter Mellow
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This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business was recently published by Fast Company. It's intent is to introduce and describe some of the key movers and ...
Via Grainne Conole
A Georgetown professor uses Google+ to transform a classroom full of students into a community of learners. See how.
You need to detect student problem areas and make corrections before it's too late. The new course Retention Center in Blackboard Learn automatically brings ...
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In order to implement modern technology in your classroom, you better know about the important skills modern teachers must have in order to succeed.
Via NikolaosKourakos
As project-based learning picks up steam, faculty members are turning to innovative software tools to foster better collaboration among students.
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