The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.
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VSee is the simplest video conference and screen share tool for virtual teams to meet online - with the result of more energetic and creative teams that get things done in half the time. VSee serves more than 8000 enterprises in 100 countries including IBM, the Navy SEALs, and US Congress.
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The Simple Team Experience Assessment Measure (STEAM) allows faculty to offer peer evaluations to student teams. A peer evaluation simply asks students how their peers performed on a team project. Peer evaluations, when properly implemented, allow an instructor both to assess how well individuals performed on a team as well as provide feedback to students so they become better at working on teams.
Thanks for the pointer, Jeff. I wonder if the user interface is over complex -- they could have asked the same questions on linear survey -- but the idea of getting student evaluations of team mates is a good one.
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I have three teaching modules on PowerPoint -- one on style, one on making narrated videos of PPT presentations and one with a couple of PPT research hypotheses.
Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice: What is SNAPP? SNAPP is a software tool that allows users to visualize the network of interactions resulting from discussion forum posts and replies. The network visualisations of forum interactions provide an opportunity for teachers to rapidly identify patterns of user behaviour - at any stage of course progression.
We do not have a textbook in this class, everything is online. The electronic text has two parts: topic modules and assignments . There are enough topic modules for several overlapping classes, and I am constantly adding new ones and revising old ones. We will cover about half of the topic modules.
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