It's time to head back to school and there are a number of web-based and social tools to help you get through the school year. Here are 15 essential ones.\n
"The Online Teaching Guide was developed by faculty members from the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) under the guidance of the Duke Center for Instructional Technology (CIT). The work of this group culminated in this resource for faculty members who want to enhance their ability to plan effective online learning experiences for students. This guide serves as a user-friendly and practical tool to assist faculty in planning and implementing online courses."
"Six Nursing faculty and one graduate student participated in a CIT Fellows Program to develop methods evaluate the quality of the School's online courses. The group created an evaluation rubric, applied it to their courses, and conducted student focus groups to provide feedback about online course quality. "
This paper analyzes the current move in business school pedagogy from the traditional case study method to digital cases. It discusses the impacts of digital case studies and the differences between moving traditional "cooked" cases online versus providing truly "raw" case data that is open-ended and allows for multiple solutions.
It seems that Case Studies are a common activitity in Nursing courses. This article may help you 'breath new life' into the typical case study approach.
This lecture is used in a course on HIV at the School of Nursing
online lecture by Elizabeth Pisani, a British epidemiologist who wrote the book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS. She is a great speaker, and the folks in my HIV class loved it. She talks about the first needle exchange program in the world, which was--get this--started by Margaret Thatcher
This easy tool will allow you to create, publish and grade quizzes online. This generator is very flexible and, perhaps even more importantly, is free of charge. (Source: Web 2.0 toolbox)
I just looked at this site and definitely should be on all the syllabus to help studnets who are writing papers or doing project. i just emailed this to the 3 graduate students who are working on research projects with me.
I agree, Dr. Hardin. These tools should be integrated into classrooms. It's an example of 'social bookmarking' but targets the academic environment with the citation formatting.
I'd like to compare Diigo with CiteULike. I imagine all students could benefit from some sort of collaborative bookmarking or bibliography building. Especially if the instructor is participating and supportive.
But which tool is the best? Or which one should we recommend?
I'm no expert but think social bookmarking and CiteULike could be used very differently. For the CiteULike repository I worked with students on last year, it was a compilation of about 500 references (not URLs - they were sorting through the literature/evidence for health IT evaluation studies. We worked in EndNote first and then after many iterations, uploaded the EndNote file to CiteULike. That seems fairly different (to me at least) from the kinds of things we are doing here in Diigo. In theory, I guess you could use them both for similar things, but I would save CiteULike for referencing/citations and Diigo for web sites. Just my $.02
You got it exactly right, Linda. CiteULike for referencing / citations and Diigo for websites. The concept is similar: People sharing resources which helps to discover trends and eliminate redundancy.
EndNote (a supported tool at DUKE), CiteUlike, and Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) fall into citation management and sharing. Delicious and Diigo can be categorized as website sharing.
It would be great if BOTH these ways to share caught on and were used in our schools. But, how would we prove they were effective?
Linda! That sounds really neat, I'd be interested in hearing more about your EndNote/CiteULike class assignment. Could be a great Featured Tool scenario! Neat stuff.