Each year, the free response questions from that years A.P. exam are posted. For example, by clicking on the link below, students will be able to view the 2008 questions. These questions have become an integral part of my course as practice and assessment tools.
I frequently use the sample responses and give them to students as a way to assess their understanding. I have them grade the student papers and then compare their answers to the actual rubric.
The Free-Response questions are posted every year and are a integral part of my course. I use them as practice and assessment tools on a regular basis. I strongly recommend that all AP teachers make use of them.
This page contain practice questions and answers for the AP Macroeconomics Exam. However, every AP course available on this site by clicking on the green link in the left hand sidebar entitled "AP Course and Exams" I strongly recommend it!!!!
Webpage containing every free response question asked on the A.P. Macroeconomics exam for the past 20 years. The questions and their associated detailed solutions are made available.
"Soon after we were underway, I felt we needed an e-Learning developer's guide to preserve some of the decisions we were making. The guide would also serve as a job aid for our inexperienced team members, and perhaps would be a central repository for solutions to authoring challenges as we encountered them. ... This story is as much about the development of a new e-Learning shop as it is about the guide itself, since the guide merely documents the decisions or intentions we adopted."
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks
called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
Anyone may view or contribute:
authors create and collaborate
instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
learners find and explore content
On February 1, 2012, Connexions launched its groundbreaking initiative OpenStax College™. OpenStax College is a non-profit organization committed to improving student access to quality learning materials. Our free textbooks are developed and peer reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course. Through our partnerships with companies and foundations committed to reducing costs for students, OpenStax College is working to improve access to higher education for all. OpenStax College is an initiative of Rice University and is made possible through the generous support of several philanthropic foundations.
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The MERLOT ELIXR project was recently selected as an Innovation Award finalist by the Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education (the professional association for faculty development and teaching support). The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative offers a digital case story repository that hosts more than 70 discipline-specific multimedia stories.
The MERLOT ELIXR project was recently selected as an Innovation Award finalist by the Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education (the professional association for faculty development and teaching support). The MERLOT ELIXR Initiative offers a digital case story repository that hosts more than 70 discipline-specific multimedia stories.
In order to change to a learner-controlled instructional system and to
maximize interaction, I had to change my role from that of a teacher at the
front of the classroom and the center of the process to that of facilitator who
is one with the participants and whose primary role is to guide and support the
learning process.
The result was a course designed as a learner-centered system
based on dialogue and cooperation among students (1992, p. 61).
Such a move engenders a radical shift in the power and interaction structures
in the classroom as the students must accept the responsibility for their own
knowledge creation, and the instructor must relinquish a certain amount of
control over the process.
From oracle and lecturer to consultant, guide, and resource
provider
From passive receptacles for hand-me-down knowledge to constructors of
their own knowledge
Teachers become expert questioners, rather than providers of
answers
Students become complex problem-solvers rather than just memorizers of
facts
Teachers become designers of learning student experiences rather than
just providers of content
Students see topics from multiple perspectives
Teachers provide only the initial structure to student work,
encouraging increasing self- direction
Students refine their own questions and search for their own
answers
Teacher presents multiple perspectives on topics, emphasizing the
salient points
Students work as group members on more collaborative/cooperative
assignments ; group interaction significantly increased
From a solitary teacher to a member of a learning team (reduces
isolation sometimes experienced by teachers)
Increased multi-cultural awareness
From teacher having total autonomy to activities that can be broadly
assessed
Students work toward fluency with the same tools as professionals in
their field
From total control of the teaching environment to sharing with the
student as fellow learner
More emphasis on students as autonomous, independent, self-motivated
managers of their own time and learning process
More emphasis on sensitivity to student learning styles
Discussion of students’ own work in the classroom
Teacher-learner power structures erode
Emphasis on knowledge use rather than only observation of the
teacher’s expert performance or just learning to "pass the test"
Emphasis on acquiring learning strategies (both individually and
collaboratively)
Access to resources is significantly expanded
Effective online discussion prompts provide a frame of reference through an associated shared experience or learning activity, but there are numerous creative ways in which this context can be brought to bear.
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In MERLOT you may find simulations and other cool resources in your discipline that might assist you to achieve one of your learning activities.
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me
Putting Educational Innovations Into Practice
Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.
Free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
List of 27 videos:
1. Planning an Online Course
2. Managing an Online Course: General
3. Managing an Online Course: Discussion Forums
4. Providing Feedback
5. Reducing Plagiarism
6. Building Community
7. Building Instructor and Social Presence
8. Online Relationships: Student-Student, Student-Instructor, Student-Practitioner, Student-Self
9. Fostering Online Collaboration/Teaming
10. Finding Quality Supplemental Materials
11. Blended Learning: General
12. Blended Learning: Implementation
13. Blended Learning: The Future
14. Online Writing and Reflection Activities
15. Online Visual Learning
16. Using Existing Online Video Resources
17. Webinars and Webcasts
18. Podcasting Uses and Applications
19. Wiki Uses and Applications
20. Blog Uses and Applications
21. Collaborative Tool Uses and Applications
22. Hands-On/Experiential Learning
23. Coordinating Online Project, Problem, and Product-Based Learning
24. Global Connections and Collaborations
25. Assessing Student Online Learning
26. Ending, Archiving, Updating, and Reusing an Online Course
27. Trends on the Horizon
includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service
integrated set of social media that each course can use for its own purposes—integrated forum, blog, comment, wiki, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets , and video commenting are the first set of tools.
The Classroom also includes curricular material: syllabi, lesson plans, resource repositories, screencasts and videos
Digital Curation is defined in Wikipedia as:
the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation is generally referred to the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars
Curators are people or organizations that do the hard work of sifting through the content within a particular topic area or “meme” and pulling out the things that seem to make most sense. This effort involves significantly more than finding and regurgitating link
How can this concept of “curation” of information be brought into the “classroom” (
Curation requires the ability to organize, categorize, tag and know how to make the content available to others and to be able to format and disseminate it via various platforms.