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Minimal marking allows students to work toward their goals of writing that is clean and error free. While I do not allow sentence-level errors (or their correction) to affect the project's evaluation, students cannot receive credit for completing the project until the minimal marking has been completed. I remind students that errors do have an effect on readers. The minimal marking process helps students recognize, diagnose, and correct their own typical errors, without overburdening the instructor or overwhelming students by marking every error in a project. It also reduces the impatience instructors generally feel when they encounter students' errors repeatedly throughout the work.

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.

Web search can be a remarkable tool for students, and a bit of instruction in how to search for academic sources will help your students become critical thinkers and independent learners. With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Students for Free Culture is an international chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and information & communications technology policy.

College teachers are always on the lookout for better ways to interact with their students. With technology bringing numerous innovations every day, teachers have a lot of interactive options to choose from. One of the best options available is a website called Coursekit, a free to use web service for teachers and students.

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.

"Welcome to Piazza-a place where students can come together to ask, answer, and explore under the guidance of their instructor. It'll save you time, and your students will love using it. It's also free, and easy to get started."

PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing.

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.

This might be interesting in determining the interests and pop-culture context of your college students.

What is the mindset of your college students? (based on year of their graduation.

Qiqqa is a document management program built from the ground up for academics, making it a must-have tool for students and professors everywhere.

"Check out our list of 50 awesome videos for gaming teachers to discover what experts, teachers, and even students have to say about using games for education."

Tools to get students feedback during class lectures. Integrates with Twitter and Facebook or stand alone tools listed here. 

"Canvabadges let you award badges to students in courses based on their total grade in the course and their completion of course modules. You can also put a manual approval step on as well that requires your final sign-off before they receive the badge. "

This tells us how to add page numbers to Google docs ... not for the faint of heart (like our students) but pretty damn cool.

To overcome these challenges, and in order to develop a sustainable model for OER production and use, UWC is planning to shift its OER publishing strategy to more closely involve students. We are intending to use the model of "dScribes" that was developed