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This blog provides an excellent example of how diigo and jing may be used as tools to make grading assignments more efficient.

this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education provides suggestions as to how professors can grade student blogs.

Social-networking tools and learning analytics can help educators evaluate open content

The blame for dishonesty and cheating is on the educational system's emphasis on testing well and achieving high grades.

This is an interesting blog on causes of cheating. Note the comment on the Khan Academy.

Excellent FREE site for math and sciences. All grade levels. Short video clips using a blackboard with verbal direction. Great depth of content available. Would be helpful to post on course site, saving you from creating the videos.

Thank you for sharing this link. I just heard about these free videos yesterday and was quite impressed and curious about them. I'd like to find a similar great resource for my discipline of accounting.

From kindergarten to calculus, Khan Academy is here to help. You may have heard about our videos, but did you know that Khan Academy has fun interactive math exercises that cover skills ranging from counting to calculus, grade by grade? Every exercise has step-by-step hints, so your child can practice as much as needed.

A mobile device app that turns your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into an optical scanner for grading paper multiple-choice assessments. Great for quizzes, exit tickets, and larger exams of up to 100 questions.

Apparently there is no such thing as too much participation in online discussions. Participation in discussions (as measured by words posted) scales linearly with grade on test.

Many readers use synchronous e-Learning tools to deliver instruction live and online. However, there are many other uses for these tools in education and in corporate settings. This article relates the success of one particular tool, and offers a number of best practices that you will be able to put to work in creating and delivering effective, competitive e-Learning.

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United State - 2013 The eleventh annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group, with data collection conducted in partnership with the College Board.

One of my favorite procrastination tools when I don't want to do the grade that last stack of papers.

The articles states, "A genuine online course would be nothing but the software and would handle all the grading, too. No living, breathing instructor would be needed for oversight." But, never fear, the opposite side is presented too.

Classroom assessment is both a teaching approach and a set of techniques. The approach is that the more you know about what and how students are learning, the better you can plan learning activities to structure your teaching. The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.

Past years lists are also linked. Checkout AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner organized by grade level.

I am moving toward more tech and eventually considering textbook-free classes. Step one is trying a semester with Aplia, a text-linked software program that will allow me to entirely design the course using the online version of the text I selected for my students, complete with a grade book and assignment records for each student. I am excited to start using such a technology-intensive approach for my classes.

Tips are geared toward K-12 grades, but some could be used for college classes.

Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry . They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to Twitter 's format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies.

Many critics of Twitter believe that the 140-character microblog offered by the ubiquitous social network can do little for the education industry . They are wrong. K-12 teachers have taken advantage of Twitter 's format to keep their classes engaged and up-to-date on the latest technologies.

Find the tools to be fun and interactive for grade schools but looking for assessment tools for higher education.

Great free tool to get ALL students engaged in class! Saves answers online to allow graded attendance and participation too!

I had NO idea there are tools out there to help instructors create personalized grading rubrics. I'm in love!