Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness

"The B.C. Open Textbook Project turns two today! Birthday's are a good time for reflection, and as we look back over the past two years, we can see just how far we have come with the B.C. Open Textbook Project. First, for the quantitative data lovers, the project over the past two years by the numbers."

""Usually with an exam, feedback will come as a mark and then many students will throw the exam away," says Brett Gilley, a former Science Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, and an instructor with UBC's Vantage College and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. "Here, we're making them review the exam while they still care about the answers to the questions.""

ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"As educators, we know when students tune in -- and we know when they tune out. The more elusive question is why. There is emerging consensus that the 20th-century approach to education, which favors methods such as lectures and rote learning, is standing in the way of making school relevant to more students."

"Most student "complaints" about flipped learning conceal important questions about teaching and learning that are brought to the surface because of the flipped environment. Here are three common issues raised by students and the conversation-starters they afford."

"Many of the decisions affecting the success of a course take place well before the first day of class. Careful planning at the course design stage not only makes teaching easier and more enjoyable, it also facilitates student learning. Once your course is planned, teaching involves implementing your course design on a day-to-day level."

"A five-part guide to using Twitter as an academic"

"Canada's Tri-Agency of federal research funders is set to implement a harmonized, mandatory open access (OA) policy requiring that all federally funded, peer-reviewed journal publications be made freely accessible within 12 months of publication. Research funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is subject to the policy, which takes effect on May 1st. Federally-funded researchers have three options to comply with the policy:"

A very interesting and informative piece by David Wiley about some of the real issues and benefits around open textbooks. Definitely worth a read.

Great overview of Open Access.

Brief article exploring: 1. What is adaptive learning technology? 2. What can it do in 2013? 3. What are it's limitations in 2013?

Universal Instructional Design

"OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers. Adopt a book today for a turnkey classroom solution or modify it to suit your teaching approach."

"Mark Carrigan shares excerpts from the academic blog written by Professor of Philosophy and University Chancellor, Daniel Little and reflects on the professional development and rising influence of the open-source academic. For both Little and Carrigan, the integration of blogging into working practices constitutes the starting point for traditional scholarship rather than something in opposition to it."

List of tools to use to gather feedback in class. These tools serve as alternatives to using Clickers.

List of tools that can be used to quickly poll all of the students in your classroom. Similar functionality to Tunring Point Clickers, but can be used on any device.