This is worth thinking about. What if we had an app where students could record their learning 'workouts' and it was social? Imagine a Brainbit similar to the Fitbit that reminded students to study for 15 minutes every hour or they could set their own goals and reply yes/no if they met the goal. They could then choose to share on FB or twitter, etc. Maybe there's a way to start thinking about the D2L Awards and the Mozilla backpack and start modeling something like this?
Collaboration tool that allows students to contribute ideas, articles, posts, etc. Students can earn points for their contributions. Integrates with D2L.
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Using the platform, she employed 27 intelligent agents, automated notifications based on specific course performance criteria. The agents allow Dr Broadbent and her team to monitor student performance in ways previously not possible.
f they have done really well or if they are struggling they get sent an email
You can personalise it and put their name in and lots of students think that I have personally sat down and written them an email at that point in time, which is really great