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Good discussion started on Flipped Classes - where the teacher is more of a learning manager in school and students watch/listen to lecture for homework. "Flip" seems to refer to the student activity being reversed.

Good discussion started on Flipped Classes on LinkedIn- where the teacher is more of a learning manager in school and students watch/listen to lecture for homework. "Flip" seems to refer to the student activity being reversed. (Requires LinkedIn)

Qualitative analysis of the attitudinal surveys following the activity provided data regarding students' preference for the Physical Webbing activity over the traditional lecture, acceptance of participatory manipulatives, perceived learning and attitudes towards collaborative kinesthetic three-dimensional Mind Mapping.

A lot of the "MP3″ legal concern is over MP3 encoding or decoding technology, but the patents also affect the distribution of the .mp3 file itself. Emusic.com is just one of many who pay a patent royalty for the distribution of it's MP3s. But what about educational institutions? For instance, MIT OCW uses MP3 technology for compression of audio lectures; do they pay off Thomson for each file?

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Interesting way of looking at online users done as a video lecture

David Shieh of the Chronicle of Higher Education recently took a look at a community college program that features a microlecture format, presentations varying from one to three minutes in length.