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I want to share a few tips for going paperless in the classroom. Or at least for using less paper in the classroom.

40 ways to use iPad in the classroom.

How to use QR codes in the classrooms.

Choose one or two documents to quickly engage students, focus classroom activity, and spark conversations. Pick from one of five modes - Discussion Topic, Spotlight, Zoom/Crop, Compare and Contrast, or White out/Black out - to frame documents and guide students as they analyze, focus on specific content, examine document details, and form hypotheses.

The fundamentals that define a great teacher don't differ much whether classes are taught in the online setting or off, but there are certain things that need greater emphasis and gain greater importance when a teacher is working with students who aren't in a traditional classroom setting. Knowing how to highlight these things to help students reach their potential and get more out of a course is what separates online teachers who are good from those who are great.

Infuse Learning is a free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. In an Infuse Learning room a teacher can give students a wide variety of formats in which to response to a question or prompt. Students can reply to prompts and questions in standard multiple choice, true/false, and short answer formats. But Infuse Learning also offers an option for students to reply by creating drawings or diagrams on their iPads, Android tablets, or on their laptops.

Talking about plagiarism is as easy as apple pie. And thanks to the recent controversy surrounding an article published in Cooks Source magazine, we now have a great way to start the classroom discussion.

FERPA is one of the most misunderstood regulations in education.

That's a good one Dr. Cooper! I don't remember anything about this on the mandatory Maricopa/Rio training.

Vineet Madan is Vice President of McGraw-Hill Higher Education eLabs, which works with colleges and universities, professors and students along with technology partners to develop innovative, cutting-edge digital educational tools to improve the way instructors teach and students learn.