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An article from Inside Higher Ed giving a critical view of massive online courses

A short article listing 4 benefits of using smartphones in the classroom. While I'm still not totally convinced, some good points are made here. The issue I don't ever seem to see addressed in articles like this, though, is how to keep students from going to facebook or their texts after using the phone for a learning purpose.

Teaching with the Constructivist Learning Theory

CourseSites by Blackboard is a free learning management system for K12 and Higher Ed Instructors enabling blendEd & eLearning. I have usEd this tool a few times before. This is great because it is exactly like BlackBoard. With CourseSites you can do trial and error, and it's ok because students will not see it. Also, CourseSites allow you to add students, if you do not have BlackBoard or any other online learning site that your campus offers.

TT1921: (M Oyeleye) I am always researching for ways to improve my teaching, learning and technology know-how. I am sharing this link as it has the following apps information within: 1. Apps for teaching students how to present, create and code 2. Apps for everyday classroom needs 3. Apps for collaborating on school projects 4. Apps for communicating with students and their families Enjoy!

These top tech tools for 2018 are a great start to your tech teaching tool box.

A survey of literature regarding use of Twitter in the higher education classroom finds substantial support and good advice regarding its usefulness in pedagogy. More research is needed to determine if Twitter can affect active learning, class participation, and learning outcomes.

A survey of literature regarding use of Twitter in the higher education classroom finds substantial support and good advice regarding its usefulness in pedagogy. More research is needed to determine if Twitter can affect active learning, class participation, and learning outcomes.

Interesting article

Performance assessment, also known as alternative or authentic assessment, is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list. For example, a student may be asked to explain historical events, generate scientific hypotheses, solve math problems, converse in a foreign language, or conduct research on an assigned topic. Experienced raters--either teachers or other trained staff--then judge the quality of the student's work based on an agreed-upon set of criteria. This new form of assessment is most widely used to directly assess writing ability based on text produced by students under test instructions

This article explains how synchronous communication techniques can effectively work to make graduate courses more relevant. It can also be used for the same purposes in an undergraduate course.

Knowing how many students are in the system is interesting to understand the size of the transformation due to Covid-19

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

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of education.