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Nothing works quite as well as a good question when it comes to getting the intellectual muscles moving. Given the daily demands of most academic positions, there’s not much time that can be devoted to reflection about teaching. But good questions are useful because they can be carried with us and thought about now and then, here and there. And they can be chatted about with colleagues, in person or online. 
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While online education can be an excellent choice for many students, it can require a bit of a learning curve on the part of the teachers. Obviously many of the same teaching strategies for the traditional classroom are not applicable. Utilizing these tips can help both young-adult and adult educators engage students in variety of online class scenarios Via Nik Peachey
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May 7, 2016 7:20 AM
There is a growing shift towards online education. Many traditional universities are also now providing online education. Read on about the practices that engage students online..
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In 2013, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation talked to 3,000 teachers and 1,200 students to understand what they need from digital instructional tools.
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I absolutely love planning lessons from scratch. I just got a job teaching technology units for a summer camp for elementary age students. I can design and teach whatever I want - planning for a d...
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When it comes to eLearning content, boring means learners who aren’t engaged. The challenge in designing courses is how to avoid stumbling through a series of hints and still end up with boring content. Here are four tips for effective eLearning course design based on solid data. Stumble no more.
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Full presentations and handouts from The Innovative Library Conference 2014 are available here. Presentations are linked via Slideshare, Prezi, or individual presenters' institutional repositories.
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How learning goals can add value to your eLearning Course.
Many instructional designers and eLearning professionals may spend a great deal of time focusing on the visual elements of their deliverables or concentrate on the interactive components that they'll include in each eLearning module. Indeed, these are important and add value to the overall effectiveness of your eLearning course. However, the top priority for all eLearning professionals is to determine the learning goal(s) beforehand.
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As teachers, we know the reality of the summer slump. Many of our students lose practice with meaningful learning activities. But they aren't alone: So do we! Do you want to build new knowledge over the summer and return next fall with fresh ideas on how to ease students back into...
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Motivated cognition is defined as "the unconscious tendency of individuals to fit their processing of information to conclusions that suit some end or goal." The end goal can motivate information ...
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January 27, 2014 10:02 PM
Self-awareness and information literacy. See this is why counselors and librarians are appropriately classed as faculty at our institution.
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Years ago, I was sitting in the computer lab with my best friend and she asked, “Why do you make all of your papers about black people or black issues?” As a college student, newly smitten with the…
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Want to know how to use some basic Teaching Principles for effective online learning? Check 6 Teaching Principles transferred to online courses.
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What follows is the culminating project I proposed as a result of my participation in the Ignatian Pedagogy Seminar on my campus on August 3-7, 2015, a transformative experience to say the least. It describes the ways in which I plan to incorporate what I learned during the seminar into my instructional activities.
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Welcome to the Exemplary Programs page of the ACRL Information Literacy Best Practices (ILBP) project. Below, we present IL programs that embody the best practices laid out in the document, “Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline. ProcedureThe ACRL Instruction Section ILBP Committee solicits program applications in the spring and fall through listserv posts and our website. IL programs apply through the Call for Exemplary Information Literacy Programs page in one or more of the ten best practice categories outlined in the "Characteristics" document. Both U.S. and non-U.S. programs are welcome to apply. Applications are judged by members of the ILBP Committee using the Best Practices Evaluation Rubric.
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By James Cross
5 Strategies For Engaging Students With Video Online video is taking the world by storm, and today’s students are the biggest consumers of online video content — they’re the ‘Netflix Generation’. These students have grown up in a world where video is available instantly, on-demand, and on any device.
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July 26, 2014 10:00 PM
Video can play a role in every part of an instructional design...activating knowledge, exploration, showing alternatives, expression, feedback...and it's mobile and scalable!
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Fostering digital literacy skills is one of the most difficult tasks for educators. Evaluating and analyzing online resources for accuracy is something that many adults struggle with - we've all be...
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Social media is now the top Internet activity, according to Business Insider. Americans alone spend 114 billion minutes a month on Facebook, plus even more time on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and more. So, why is social media so engaging?
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Pacing a lesson so its nearly seamless takes expertise and practice -- and can be one of the greatest challenges for new teachers. For those more seasoned out there, here's a scenario many of us can
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