Emory College Strategies for Online Teaching

This is a great research guide designed to help faculty who wish to incorporate UDL into their classes. See especially the UDL syllabus rubric page (listed under the tab "UDL Course Changes"

Interesting piece about the disadvantages of online learning for the visually impaired. Certainly makes me more aware of this dimension.

Interesting information about the use of VoiceThread as a teaching tool.

Stumbled on this as I'm trying to find a way to develop an online simulated lab experience this week. It may be geared more for science and math

Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:43:00 By: Salman Khan Join the #YouCanLearnAnything movement My 5-year-­old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he'll hit a word that he has trouble with: last night the word was "gratefully."

Although this is written for the younger student the concepts of "visible thinking" in online education are phenomenal. form, function, connection and reflection

This is a good summary of how to organize our thoughts about "flipped classrooms".

This is a good summary of how to organize our thoughts about "flipped classrooms".

This article describes the framework of four open educational practices based on patterns of OER reuse, mapped against the processes of curriculum design and delivery. Includes evidence, examples and ideas for application by practitioners, as well as recommendations for institutional policies on OER and OEP.

Hi Kristy, I really like the figure on page 12 of the article. The box for reflective and strategic enhancement and would I ever love to participate in Carpe Diem! Great find.

Here is an interesting question about rubrics.

MERLOT is a CoI revolving around technology and learning objects. It is a repository of learning objects that can be accessed and used. The objects are grouped according to subject / content, and they are peer-reviewed. This is an excellent resource with something for everyone. (My personal favorite object - the "eye simulator," which demonstrates the actions of the 6 extrinsic muscles of the eye and lets you "paralyze" muscles specifically to examine the effect on eye movement - completely cool!) There is also a wealth of other information on their site (sorry - within their community :) Best of all - all the resources at MERLOT are free.

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.

Downloaded the free 40 page book from this site. Logic + emotion = learning. Some really great tips about adult learners. Hints on visual design, "telling a story to engage the learner." allowing them to finish the story and lot of other jewels in these 40 pages. Great find!

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.

This page comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education talking about using Facebook to transform your classroom into community.

This is a relatively short (9 pages) piece that's not too difficult to read. I liked that it makes the distinction between 'big OER' (produced by larger, institutionally-based initiatives) and 'little OER' (produced by individuals). A quote: "The first may be that people don't value free things, or are suspicious of free. We have become accustomed to roughly equating monetary price with value or quality. Free is therefore obviously low quality or suspicious at least ... But in education there is still an expectation that high quality education costs." This is something I have thought about often in my career in higher ed here in GA, and that I'm especially attuned to now as I pack 2 children off to another institution of higher education.

Hi Ann, I really liked this article and the differentiation of context. The violin story is a good one that I believe we must ask--at Emory how much dependence upon open source is too much, how do we continue to give the ROI for the tuition? Great find.

The Blended Synchronous Learning Handbook is the primary output of the Blended Synchronous Learning Project. It includes the summative findings of the Blended Synchronous Learning case studies, a Blended Synchronous Learning Design Framework, and a range of other resources and information to support blended synchronous learning design research and practice.

An interesting question on whether courses have outlived their usefulness online.

This is a brief article aimed at University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students offering time management and email writing tips. I chose this article both because I find the general time management tips helpful for everyone and I feel that many of my students would benefit from similar suggestions/guidelines when communicating professionally online. I especially enjoyed the line reminding students, "that many faculty view an e-mail message as a letter that was delivered quickly rather than a quick conversation."