Bucknell Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship

This article describes the widespread use of the two "one-button" video recording studios at Penn State.

The study itself involved student self-reporting of Internet use during lecture, and the researchers used ACT scores as an indicator of academic ability, but the results are not surprising: students who surfed the Internet during lecture did worse on course exams. Duh!

Most of the links are to online textbook sites, but there are also links to other OER repositories.

Another interesting NY Times GIS map of "wellness" by county in the United States. I am using the term "wellness" not in a health context but instead as a summary description of their six data points: education, median household income, unemployment rate, disability rate, life expectancy, and obesity.

The article discusses a computer-based analysis of word use in the court reports of trials at the Old Bailey from 1674 through 1913.

Very short promotional article about a course in which students are developing apps for Google Glass

Guide on the Side is a program that allows you to create interactive Web tutorials. The tutorial can exist in a column on the Web page and provide instructions about the main Web site that fills up most of the screen.

Another interesting GIS map - this one of the third most commonly spoken language in each state, besides English and Spanish.

This article about an article didn't define active learning, but it points to a study that asserts that 55% more students in STEM courses fail the course when lecture is used, as compared to active learning.

Interesting visualization of college majors (for BAs) from 1970 to 2011

A faculty member uses software called Personify to record her "flipped classroom" lectures. Personify allows her to place her head and shoulders (recorded as she delivers the lecture) on top of the screencasting content, and she can choose when to display her image and when not to display her image as she delivers the lecture.

An additional article about student skepticism of the flipped classroom model, exploring what students mean when they complain that they would prefer letures.

Prosecutors in Germany are using 3D virtual models of Nazi death camps, along with databases and spreadsheets, to build cases against suspected Nazi death camp guards.

Math professor responds to potential/actual student criticisms of flipped classroom model

Article by a faculty member who used Apple iBooks Author to produce an "enhanced" eBook version of a scholarly monograph

iPhone app allows for adjustment of a hearing aid.

Millennials are often called "digital natives" because their familiarity with new technology seems to be in their DNA. Whether we like it or not, the "screen age" is here to stay-and with it has come a much more media-rich information ecosystem. Students are exposed to thousands of images a day.

Interesting map of baseball fan loyalty based on zip codes and Facebook data.

Flipping your course is not an all or nothing endeavor. Dip your toe into the flipping pool.