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A listing of resources for fine art, art history, and some music composition.

"Competency-based" education appears to be this year's answer to America's higher education challenges, judging from this week's news in Washington. Interesting opinion piece by John Ebersole.

As we move into different modalities, it is nice to remember that our students will arrive in our classroom familiar with these technologies. As the use of on-line tools increase in public education, our students will arrive with a baseline comfort level with the google tools, which still remain robust for many activities. These graphics really bring this home.

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/06/handy-google-hangout-cheat-sheet-for.html This is a cheat sheet for the Google Hangout...

Here is an interesting question about rubrics.

This article investigates the gap between instructional training and technology training when it comes to second language teachers.

This is the online ADDIE workbook I used to design a previous workshop. It's a nice step through of the overall process with lots of external resouces. The Instructional System Design Model (ISD) uses five phases (Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) for creating both informal and formal learning processes.

Good to help learners "hear their writing" . English Text To Speech Online: English, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, German, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese voices.

This powerpoint presentation from a library instruction conference talks about uses for the tool Padlet -- which looks like a really interesting way for students to share findings on an online graffiti wall.

Introduces IoT as defined in the 2012 Horizon Report as "the latest evolution of network-aware smart objects that connect the physical world with information" (p. 30). References 4 YouTube videos as good introductions to IoT and relates IoT to educational innovation.

The uphill struggle to implement OER at a university.

Here are some more Classroom Assessment Technique resources!

This article provides an overview of the benefits of a "backchannel" (such as Twitter and todaysmeet.com). It also explains ways to go about implementing Twitter into the classroom. Finally, the article touches on digital literacy (also web literacy skills). This article will be particularly useful for M4 and beyond.

This article discusses using the ADDIE model in developing nursing simulation exercises.

Although the target readership is grade 6-12 instructors, I find the methodology in this article applicable to what we are trying to do. Give it a read and see what you think.

Over the last decade, larger student numbers, reduced resources and increasing use of new technologies have led to the increased use of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) as a method of assessment in higher education courses. This paper identifies some limitations associated with MCQs from a pedagogical standpoint....

Trying to catch up and get ahead as I leave town this week :) I teach beginning undergraduates in typically large (150+ students) classes, often with little or no (or ineffective) TA assistance. Multiple choice questions are an absolute necessity as a management tool. I find that many of my colleagues in traditional liberal arts colleges think that multiple choice questions are unacceptable as a means of student assessment. However, I've noticed that many of the online adaptive learning tools and licensing exams required by many professional programs (nursing among them...) are also based primarily on multiple choice questions. I looked for an article to rebut the reading from the flaguide website (http://www.flaguide.org/) which stated, "...the multiple choice test..... [is] usually most effective at measuring fact-based knowledge and the ability to perform algorithmic problem-solving...However, if our goals include different student outcomes than these....then this assessment technique will not provide useful feedback about attainment of these goals." The above article gives several ideas for creating and using multiple choice questions to assess higher order thinking, my favorite being the idea of assigning scores based not only on student answers to the questions but also their confidence in their answer. I also liked the idea of the self-tests that students can take repeatedly to check their mastery of concepts, which seems to play into the instructional design loops that we were studying in M3.