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Like many other arenas, to be a pioneer institution for OpenCourseWare Project, as METU members, we need to increase the number of high quality courses published and reach more learners as possible. In this process, METU Instructional Technology Support Office supports faculty members for developing course materials and publishing those materials on the Web.

When Southern New Hampshire University President Paul LeBlanc stepped onto the stage at Campus Tech 2015 in July, he painted a bright picture of competency-based higher ed. "Today, 500 institutions are moving to competency-based education, and they are not-for-profit," he said. "There's a lot of opportunity." LeBlanc certainly had that right.

A summit which aims to bring together educators, technology companies, entrepreneurs, managers and the media.

Find pubs, libraries, colleges and a huge number of other points of interest from around the city in Places. You can search by name, by category with places and by proximity using your phone's GPS or place name/postcode.

'The Many Faces of TPACK: Perspectives and Approaches" is a Wikibook created as part of the Research and Practice on Technology in Teacher Education Course (EDS 536) taught at Middle East Technical University in Spring 2013.

Ooo.. This is our online book which is the product of EDS536_2013. Lucky us as you :) Thanx Ahsen!

Here comes an infograph about social media on campus, with pros, cons and overall impact

Could you even think universities facilitate Snapchat to promote events, host giveaways, and showcase what is happening around the campus? This article shows how to use Snapchat at the organizational level in the higher education institutions. A good one!

I think this is a good example for an online learning community by California State University. You can register for free to join :)

MERLOT II is just like the online platform I know -NING-. I have never heard it before and it looks really educative.

To me, the most interesting thing in this infographic is that distance learning is not recent at all, and it actually dates as back as 1700s through correspondence. As you walk through the history of online learning on the left column, the right column will inform you about some other fun facts that happened at the very same year.

Dear friends, I liked this infographic because it is followable to see the development of online learning, year by year

I think a striking point in this infographic seems to be that the developments in the last decade seems to be quicker and more extensive than ever. There are only 12-year distance (2002-2014) between when OpenCourseWare started and 98 % of the universities started online programs. It is also seen that online courses are regarded as highly as face-to-face courses for most people of business and academy which might put the existence of today's pyhsical schools into risk. When we consider that online courses and learning tools are not that common in Turkey, it seems we are left behind that new distant learning paradigm in the world.

This website is mentioned in the readings of this week. Actually the mentioned one is in Harvard University; however, this one is in Temple College, but the method is the same. Terry Austin is the professor in the class and he and the students talk about Learning Catalytics. It is good to watch video and also there data before LC and after LC which shows the success raising.

This qualitative study was conducted to gain insights into the perceptions of prospective English language teachers at a state university in Turkey on flipped classrooms and to introduce the implementation of a flipped classroom into an English language class. The results were interesting and there are useful recommendations for implementing flipped language lessons.

"the secret words" idea seems to be very creative. I wonder how it is implemented. I also wish we could be able to learn what they do in the classroom in this specific example. I really wonder how classroom activities work in flipped elt classes.

Sebahat Hocam, maybe we can contact the authors and ask about it.

Dear All, Through this link, you can download Ansyari's article. I also found out that this was Ansyari's master's thesis when he was in University of Twente. The thesis can be downloaded via http://essay.utwente.nl/62294/1/MSc_Ansyari_M.F._-_S1084712.pdf Hope it helps.

Thank you Ceren. You are so generous and helpful.