Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness

"A place for college teachers to share practical strategies for today's classrooms." Wiki style site for instructors to find and share practical strategies for teaching.

"Students are going to use mobile devices and computers in the classroom, regardless of the professor's level of comfort with technology. It's best to embrace the technology and work with your educational technologist or instructional designer to determine the best tools and methodologies to enhance your course with technology and support the course objectives."

A guide regarding recruiting undergraduate students for research including for SoTL

All of the videos from the Introduction to Teaching Online course through the GMCTE.

"Undergraduates are significantly more likely to major in a field if they have an inspiring and caring faculty member in their introduction to the field. And they are equally likely to write off a field based on a single negative experience with a professor."

A university professor relates how teaching fourth-grade helped prepare her for her role in higher education.

While initially aimed at K-12 education, this table absolutely applies to higher education as well.

"Today the Getty becomes an even more engaged digital citizen, one that shares its collections, research, and knowledge more openly than ever before. We've launched the Open Content Program to share, freely and without restriction, as many of the Getty's digital resources as possible."

Talk by Valerie Irvine and Dean Crawford at Campus Technology 2013.

This is a good and realistic look at the experience of an instructor who has flipped their class. Not all negative, but here is some realism: "The problem, I soon discovered, was that nobody told the students they were supposed to hate lectures. They were genuinely disoriented when I didn't spend class time lecturing. Only about 25 percent of them watched the prerecorded lectures before class. As a result, class discussion of content became an exercise in futility. Their comments at the end of the semester made it clear that about two-thirds of them preferred a typical lecture class."

"As Bakary Diallo, a professor from the African Virtual University, reportedly remarked at a recent meeting among international educators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, students in other parts of the world have their "own realities," their "own context and culture." It would be absurd to ignore how significantly those realities shape students' participation in our virtual classrooms."

"Students pay many thousands of dollars for a college education in order to prepare themselves for the job market. If the college or university is providing the wrong stuff, that's a poor investment for the students."

"The Padagogy Wheel takes an expanded approach Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and offers 62 iPad apps that fit into the organized chaos that is Bloom's. On Allan's blog (check it out, it's great!) he explains that not every app is perfect and that there's always room to improve. So I'd recommend you check out his blog and offer up your comments, questions, etc. as he ha spent a pantload of time on this thing and I just know you'd enjoy learning about this if you haven't already."

"Whether you're new to technology, just getting started with a social network, or looking for some useful tips then these courses are for you. They're part of a new idea that I've been working on with a few friends. We're calling it Modern Lessons and it's essentially a 'Khan Academy for real-world skills' where a small handful of people build free online courses designed to help you learn some important things. But it's more than just a few useful videos about Twitter. There are customized certificates, quizzes, prerequisites, and more. But that's not important. The important part is what YOU can expect to learn. Since many Edudemic readers are teachers, there's a whole area devoted to teachers, don't worry. Adam Webster, an Oxford-educated teacher just outside London, has lovingly crafted a series of useful (and free!) courses designed to help you integrate technology into your classroom. More on that later. "

Cool little chart about activities that can be done on Twitter at the different levels of Bloom's.

Provides a bit of background on RSS and why you should use it and lots on using Feedly as your RSS reader. Note, at this time, Feedly doesn't work with Internet Explorer, but is compatible with Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

The research studies noted in the article include a mix of K-12 and higher education. "There have been many interesting studies done about iPads in the classroom and the effects on both students and teachers. I've pulled together a list of various study results regarding iPads in the classroom below. Check out just how much of an influence studies show iPads in the classroom are having on education."

"In simple English, you can no longer subscribe to any of the Twitter streams - be it search results, timelines of users, their favorites or even Twitter Lists - in your RSS Reader. That said, there is any easy workaround." "