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15 tips are given in this article for conducting live synchronous sessions.

I'm enrolled as a student in the MOOC Saving Schools Mini-Course 1: History and Politics of U.S. Education on the edX platform and share in this post discussion questions used for assignment purposes from the course to illustrate what NOT to do when it comes to writing discussion questions.

Sustained, high-quality student participation usually doesn't happen on its own in the online learning environment. The instructor needs to model participation, create assignments that encourage it, and foster an environment that supports it. Here are some ways that I promote student participation in my online courses.

"I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures... I divide the world into learners and nonlearners." -Benjamin Barber, sociologist Is your capacity for learning is fixed or fluid? Can you improve your intelligence and talents through hard work and practice, or are you stuck with the brains you've got?

Lessons from Great Cities

Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. Find out what it is and why everyone's talking about it.

Flipped Classroom

Hello Everyone - better late then never. I have posted the URL of the Hospitality Association that Fanshawe College is the only educational partner. Thought it might be a little break from the Tweetin' Blogin' Diigoin' that we have been doing. Hope you enjoy, cheers... rob

This article provides 10 strategies to integrate Twitter in the College Classroom. My favorites include: a) creating a course hashtag to build learning community and share relevant news and content with the class me.mbers, and b) provide basic Twitter training and an overview of Twitter terms and language

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.

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Education World offers new technology content every day. Some of our pieces related to technology tools can be found in this archive.

Project Spotlight Terry Austin, an instructor of anatomy and physiology at Temple College in Texas, has boosted student retention rates in his classes - and he attributes part of that success to the real-time feedback system he's using in his flipped classroom.

A "bring your own device" student engagement, assessment, and classroom intelligence system.

It seems in the twenty-first century new learning technologies are appearing every day for teachers to think about. With the advent of technology across all fields of learning, the ways in which learners store and retrieve information for further use has dramatically changed.

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Back again to Twitter but this time with a wonderful collection of more than 50 ideas and tips on how to put this popular social networking and microblogging tool to work in your classroom.

Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys (which we call Kahoots) using any device with a web browser… including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC and more.

Pinterest is a social network which allows you to share and comment on visual material, which could be photographs, sketches, videos or web pages. Like a virtual scrapbook, but very public, you can collate the items that you love. This post explores some uses for it in education

This post describes and provides examples of three social media platforms used as a pedagogical tool to create meaningful learning assignments in face-to-face and online courses. Social media platforms such as blogs, Wikis and Twitter hold great potential as vehicles for student learning.