Teaching Lifelong Learning Skills with Twitter: A Lesson for Leaders

Our thesis is straightforward: Schools need to transition from the bureaucratic industrial-age structures in which they were created a hundred years ago into modern learning and improvement organizations that are suitable to the needs of today.

10 ways to encourage student reflection…

Module 2: Delivering Online Interactive Courses

RESEARCH ON BEST PRACTICES

What does a high quality online course look like? This site is designed to answer the question being asked: What does a high quality online course look like? It is ourhope that instructors and instructional designers will use this site to learn more about the Rubric for Online Instruction, and be able to view examples of exemplary courses that instructors have done in implementing the different components of the rubric.

Teaching Strategies: Online TeachingOnline teaching is increasingly common at many types of higher education institutions, ranging from hybrid courses that offer a combination of in-person and online instruction, to fully online experiences and distance learning. The following resources provide guidelines for creating an online course, best practices for teaching online, and strategies for assessing the quality of online education.

"Description The Learning to Teach Online project has been developed by COFA Online, an academic unit at the College of Fine Arts, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. It is designed to be practical and easy to access for time-poor teachers. The video and PDF based episodes each examine specific successful online teaching strategies from many different disciplines, offering tips, guidance and pointing out the potential pitfalls to both novice and experienced online teachers. Support for the COFA Online Learning to Teach Online program has been provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in this activity do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. For more information and access to a global online supportive community, please visit the Learning to Teach Online website www.online.cofa.unsw.edu.au"

"10 Wiki Strategies for Educators"

"I'm so tired of having the integration of technology into learning overlooked because it's "too hard". As educators - actual professional educators , who actually go into classrooms every day and teach for a living - we do NOT have the luxury of choosing whether we should be integrating technology, or whether we want to learn more about it, or whether we think it's relevant to the learning process. It is , it's part of the job and if people don't think so, then they ought to be getting a copy of the Saturday paper and looking for a something else to do where they CAN be selective about what part of the job they are willing to take seriously without it impacting on our future generations."

"Learning 2.0 is Dumb: Use 'Connected Learning' Instead"

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Best web 2.0 education apps

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Voice Thread

"How Might Our Students Benefit from a Flipped Classroom? Harvard Physics Professor, Eric Mazur, uses peer instruction and just-in-time teaching to promote better learning. In the details of his strategy, students use class time to grapple with, discuss and find solutions to problems that have traditionally been given as homework assignments. Mazur believes this collaborative deconstruction and application leads to deeper discussions and better learning."

"Introduction Since early in 1995, teachers everywhere have learned how to use the web well by adopting the WebQuest format to create inquiry-oriented lessons. But what exactly is a WebQuest? What does it feel like to do one? How do you know a good one when you see it? In the space of 90 minutes, you're going to grapple with these questions and more. "

TPACK reflection teacher

TPACK - examples

"33 Essential Resources for Developers & Designers"