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his article documents a faculty development model that has successfully helped faculty overcome reluctance to design and teach online courses.

This is a good article to read #TT2021

My question to pose with it would be, how might we frame casino schools for online learning? #TT2021 All the best, Viggy (C.A.)

Resource to assist educators in creating online syllabus.

As much as I appreciated this article for how it addresses the benefits of an avatar with virtual reality learning, I mostly appreciated the real-world support VR could offer-including virtual reality field trips. Discovery Education and Google Expeditions seem to be frontrunners for virtual reality field trips. However, I would also like to support my students in creating their own virtual reality locales/research sites. All the best, Viggy (C.A.) #TT2021

This is the site for the digital publication site that won the 2019 Open Publishing Awards "Open Publishing Model" award. The publications in the site are from the AFRO PWW series of the Illinois Open Publishing Network.

Colleges and universities are beginning to embrace social media and realizing the potential power and implications for using it as a component of their overall marketing mix. This guide will introduce you to some of the more popular forms of social media, including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, blogs, and del.icio.us.

Online tools database for teaching resources.

65% of adults now use social networking sites - a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites, up from 7% when Pew Research Center began systematically tracking social media usage in 2005.

These statistics are another reason why the use of social media and other technology tools should be incorporated somehow within education.

Reaching agreement on the convenience of online classes is easy, but arguing in favor of a synchronous learning experience in a virtual classroom is harder. Debunking the top 10 myths about synchronous online teaching helps refute the arguments against it, while the transformational nature of online teaching can convert skeptics into supporters.

Reaching agreement on the convenience of online classes is easy, but arguing in favor of a synchronous learning experience in a virtual classroom is harder. Debunking the top 10 myths about synchronous online teaching helps refute the arguments against it, while the transformational nature of online teaching can convert skeptics into supporters.

I can't believe that people still believe all these myths. However I have colleagues that still resist even limited technology in hybrid classes.

Yes, there are a ton of great ed-tech tools out there, but which ones should you be adopting for your classroom? This article gave me some great ideas.

Ranzie, Thank you for sharing this. Loved it. I am still learning about much of this content and how it can be utilized in my classroom

Factors to think of when deciding about synchronous/asynchronous activities in a classroom.

Millennials' social media habits matter. Why? Some of the reasons are obvious; millennials represent tremendous potential buying power, and are some of the most important consumers to reach through social media marketing. They're also young and have grown up using the Internet, and are therefore more likely to embrace new technologies, which is important for emerging brands.

The tips are common sense applying to any kind of instruction but serve as a good checklist.

Want to be a better student? There are literally thousands of apps for that. Not to mention a wide array of other online learning tools. They're not all changing education - but a few innovative ones are.

This article contains several ideas for successful online instruction. Technology is constantly changing and we as instructors need to stay on top of the emerging trends.