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Sophia is a content management platform that supports social teaching, has been piloted at college level: Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook - focused solely on teaching and learning. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.

Richard Buckland has been using Wikis in his large class (100-500 students) teaching in Engineering and Computer Science since 2000. He has found some amazing things which can be done with Wikis, and made many many mistakes.

Key Points: * Higher education historically has focused on instructors teaching rather than students learning, an ineffective approach that could seriously hamper the promise of mobile learning. * Successful student learning emerges from active engagement, connection to the students' prior knowledge, and simulation of real world experiences - all facilitated by engaging learners' senses through multimedia. * Higher education should stop thinking about these powerful mobile multimedia devices as only consumption devices - to live up to the promise of mobile learning, students should use them as production devices.

teaching tool for introductory computer programing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

Ninety-seven percent of students enter college with cell phones, yet few universities leverage this ubiquity for teaching and university life. Colleges have two choices: continue to treat mobile devices as a nuisance, or embrace them by leveraging their mobile learning capabilities. ACU's expanded view connects academic, social, and infrastructural m-learning applications. View Quicktime file (small) of Rankin, Saltsman, Dickson "A Campus-Wide Approach for Mobile Learning with iPhones"

A new method of teaching is turning the traditional classroom on its head.

podcast with Dr. Kay Shattuck, Director of Research for Quality Matters (QM) about QM, online course assessment, and the QM framework.

sowebedu is the short form of "Social Web in Education" and refers to the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 for teaching and learning. This wiki is created for the Share.TEC pilot Social Software and Web2.0 in Teacher Education and Teacher Training. It provides a platform for a community of practice for exploring and analysing the usage of Social Software and Web2.0 tools and services under real educational conditions

This is a power point presentation Brian gave in 2013.

Here is a collection of Online Resources by Subject Area: English History Sign Language ESL Biology Chemistry Accounting Psychology German Spanish French Business Nursing/Dental Hygiene Humanities Economics Physics/Astronomy Business Law General Resources Computers and Technology Mathematics

portfolios for learning and their relationship to institutionally supported learning tools and course designs.

The innovative way of creating a presentation

Read about mobiles apps that help faculty (1) Take Attendance (2) Collect Research Data (3) Mark-up PDF files (4) Use cameras as document scanners (5) View e-textbooks and (6) Plan lectures via mind-mapping apps

simple guidelines for creating instructional graphics and media for the widest possible audience of learners and learner-accessed devices.

This is a great example of what I'd like for us to have at St.Kate. Funds to support faculty improving their instructional capacity through targeted application of specific strategies.