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This is a nice article on trends in higher education and distance learning.

For those who may be a bit unclear on how to use Twitter for a class, the article includes varied strategies. Some of the ideas have already been mentioned in our discussions and responses as we worked through the second module, but there are a few other points that may be noteworthy. Second, the article affirms some of the ideas already shared, especially for those of us who were initially unfamiliar with twitter's potential application.

I'm still not convinced I want to use Twitter in my classes, but this gives a lot of good information.

I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way .....

In this resource, provided by Southern Oregon University, best practices in online course design are discussed. This is a great resource for educators who are committed to providing a high-quality online experience for students.

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When Alice E. Marwick, an assistant professor of media studies at Fordham University, assigned her social-media class to create a post on BuzzFeed, the instructions were simple: Go viral. Several students nailed the assignment, collecting more than...

This is the latest episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes, Overcast, or Stitcher. Perhaps you've stood in the front of a classroom, looked out on the room full of students distractedly checking email or Facebook, and thought: They're just not that into this.

We're already hard at work planning the 2017 program. For now, take a look at the 2016 agenda to see the type of innovative and industry-specific content you always get at the Campus Technology Conference.

Special Reports Faculty members experiment with artificial intelligence in the classroom Premium content for subscribers. Subscribe Today Last spring, Ashok K. Goel pulled off one of the great pranks in the history of artificial intelligence. In an online course, Mr. Goel, a computer-science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, relied on nine teaching assistants, including...

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LinkedIn is offering courses one of the courses is Social media in the classroom

This is a basic primer introducing the facilitator to online teaching. I found it helpful. Also, the supplemental resources at the end are fairly good.

This article covers a wide spectrum of topics -- from the state of online teaching to emerging technology, based on a study.

This blog provides some suggestions for using YouTube in the classroom. It also describes other educational video resources.

This blog post outlines types of social media that can be used in the classroom. These include Twitter, blogs, Flickr, Skype, and Pinterest, and Tumbl.

Scroll down to see the virtual activity example posted here. I really appreciated this, as it is visual and interesting and goes well beyond a typical discussion board or written response.

The particular workshop recording that interests me is the one on using peer review options for online teaching. This is something I'm trying to incorporate more of, and it was helpful to hear about how other teachers incorporate it into their courses!

Every instructor who has designed his or her own course and taught it has actually conducted two rounds of informal usability tests. For the first round, you were the user, and in the second, your students were. What is usability testing? It is simply a process of observing how users interact with something you have ...

The authors, a working group of architects, product designers, engineers and environmental design researchers, collaborated to establish the following Principles of Universal Design to guide a wide range of design disciplines including environments, products, and communications.

I love this article about using social media in a FERPA-compliant manner! It's a great resource for anyone interested in that type of thing.