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Summary with some useful links to see examples of iPad use (both in higher ed and K12).

Uploading work to ePortfolio for Integrative Studies is just as much for Otterbein's use as for the students who do it. The online system, which was adopted last year in conjunction with the introduction of the new INST program, is largely intended as a way for the program to assess whether it is accomplishing its goals and to identify what adjustments need to be made to the curriculum.

Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks them to persuade one another that the answer they arrived at before class is correct.

...Where math, technology, and education cross

This is a blog by Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University. A group of us at Otterbein recently participated in a webinar he conducted on flipping the classroom.

Good D&D topic or book group lead!

In this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, a junior faculty member considers how to connect learning in his courses to the university's greater academic objectives and the students' continuing education at large.

Posted by Saga Briggs on Sunday, July 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment Last year, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) was publicly accused of "killing students' joy for learning." The OECD publishes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which is an assessment that allows educational performances to be examined on a common measure across 34 countries.

Examples come from MFL departments - could be a good reference for people here. ~G.

Good conversation starter/resource