SoundGecko - Listen to Any Article - 1 views
Eight Considerations for Online Text - 0 views
Learning Outcomes Rubric - 2 views
How Games Promote Learning - 4 views
Labster TED talk - teachers need to embrace the tech - 3 views
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11 minute TED talk by the company making cool virtual labs in Unity. notes that students are bored by classic classroom teaching, and most of the current "innovations" in online teaching involve putting that same boring approach online. backs it up with some research. Points out that when you make an entertaining virtual lab with a story, students forget to check facebook for hours. Final takeaway is that the tech is here, and the next leap forward in education will come when teachers adopt it.
Learning Out Loud: Make Online Courses Meaningful and Accessible - 1 views
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"The case for learning out loud extends beyond the development of effective communication skills. An asynchronous, multimodal learning environment that invites students to verbally converse with one another has been shown to improve the social and emotional elements of learning." (also see http://www.slideshare.net/brocansky/learning-outloudsept2014)