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Interesting idea; social media for professional development in higher education.

When You need to Give a Persuasive Speech or Your students need a Topic for a Persuasive speech you can pick off of the list of 105 great Topics.

A couple of years ago the optimistic view on virtual schools prevailed. For several students this learning environment provided the safety they had lacked in traditional schools either because emotional, social or other reasons. Contrary to the original enthusiasm, however, today more and more analyses refer to the problems of these schools. The Virtual Schools in U.S 2019 - among others - describes this problem in detail.

I thought this was great! This semester I actually have a baseball theme for all my modules. Game 7 of the CWS!!! :)

Some good ideas on how to change up the online classroom.

Artifacts for student analysis

I think these are helpful Video lectures in chemistry. #TT2041

Interesting view of pandemic and educaiton. Discussion of MOOCs

We are the disrupters.

This is a short, quick checklist for social presence strategies

An approach for podcast integration into online classes

Great tips!!

Help is on the way!

This paper raises serious doubts regarding the success of our educational system in preparing students for the knowledge society. According to the author the knowledge economy "...holds the promise of changing, to our benefit, some of the most deep-seated and universal regularities of economic life and of dramatically enhancing productivity and growth. Its effects, however, have so far proved modest." The disruption brought by the new technologies can cause an even bigger inequality in societies. Worth thinking about it.

This paper explains very clearly the meaning of multiliteracies and multimodality. In education this pedagogy brought new teaching and learning methods which are different from traditional approaches that focused on monomodal tools for learning. Multiliteracy gives flexibility in teaching and learning. Students learn in different ways, some of them prefer linguistic expression while others are more open to multimodal forms.

Students hate discussion boards and mostly feel like they don't get anything out of them. They go into check box mode and real dialogue is lost. How can we fix them?

I used discussion board for 2 full semesters. I received feedback from my students in both ways: course reflection and my performance evaluation. The feedback was very positive. The assignment for the discussion boards would include an actual company with specific operations (inventory, quality, process design, etc.). Students were free to answer any questions and required provide a feedback to at least one of the classmates answer. Students felt connected to their classmates, shared different views, had an opportunity to learn from each other.

The title is a bit misleading but some of the recommendations discussed can definitely spark some life into DBs. DBs are a good way to foster engagement but unless properly done can mostly be seen by students as a one and done exercise.

Personally, I am against use of social media in the class.

This website hosts OER instructional videos on topics in math, including algebra, calculus, liberal arts math, and more.

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