academic technology

Bucks County Community College

Graphic that explains the relationship between terms and course dates and how to set terms and course dates to control user access: 

Three months of development for one hour of online coursework. In terms of numbers, that's one point that came out of listening to the podcast, which was a helpful landmark. That estimate was for a middle of the road course on the three variables: Graphics/Multimedia Level of Interactivity Instructional Design

Recently, the authors engaged in a collaborative inquiry with a sixth grade science class to explore mind mapping, a graphic organizer that can be used to generate ideas, take notes, develop concepts and ideas, and improve memory (Buzan 1979). With a very limited body of research available on how to best use mind maps in the classroom, the authors decided to explore ways mind mapping could be used for the teaching and learning of middle school science. This article reviews research about graphic organizers, describes the ways the authors incorporated mind mapping into a sixth grade science curriculum, and discusses what they learned by using mind mapping as both a teaching and learning strateg

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Many of these are setting anyone can turn on that make the audio and visual easier to see and hear.

Audio comments to google docs essay. A little bit clunkier than canvas, but nice to have.

good list of open source and proprietary software available.

Easy way to search #'s from originating from multiple social media hubs

10 of the best Apple and Android apps for higher education in 2013

ODS uses

EDUCAUSE - great video

canvas course on Peer Review that Carrie Saarinen shared at Canvas Users Group April 2013

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have the potential to enable free university-level education on an enormous scale. A concern often raised about MOOCs is that although thousands enrol for courses, a very small proportion actually complete the course. The release of information about enrollment and completion rates from MOOCs appears to be ad hoc at the moment - that is, official statistics are not published for every course. This data visualisation draws together information about enrollment numbers and completion rates from across online news stories and blogs.

A sticky idea is understood, it's remembered, and it changes something. Sticky ideas of all kinds-ranging from the "kidney thieves" urban legend to JFK's "Man on the Moon" speech-have six traits in common. If you make use of these traits in your communication, you'll make your ideas stickier. (You don't need all 6 to have a sticky idea, but it's fair to say the more, the better!)