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GradeCraft - 0 views

www.gradecraft.com gamification lms tools
shared by wlampner on 21 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 21 Oct 16
     
    Innovative Game-based LMS. Seems to also Integrate with Canvas.
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Data on student engagement with an LMS is a key to predicting retention - 2 views

www.insidehighered.com/...t-lms-key-predicting-retention LMS analytics UADDS_BP4TO retention
shared by wlampner on 13 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • ata accounted for two of the 10 top predictors for the retention of first-year students. Sometimes it was the No. 1 predictor.
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PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations - 0 views

phet.colorado.edu elearning tools simulation
shared by Steve Kaufman on 08 Aug 16 - Cached
  • Steve Kaufman on 08 Aug 16
     
    Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
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How to find the original Flickr Photo URL and User from a Static Flickr Image URL/Perma... - 1 views

www.bram.us/...from-a-static-flickr-image-url flickr stock-photos royalty-free creative-commons
shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 03 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 03 Aug 16
     
    A great trick on how to find the original photo of a Flickr image that you've downloaded previously.
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Musicmap | The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres - 0 views

www.musicmap.info music history infographics
shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 28 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 28 Jul 16
     
    Cool infographic of musical genres and how they relate
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The True Size Of ... interactive map - 0 views

thetruesize.com mapping infographics geography
shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 19 Jul 16 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 19 Jul 16
     
    An interactive map that allows users to drag countries, continents, etc... around the map to view their relative size
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Pedagogical Repository - 1 views

topr.online.ucf.edu/...Main_Page faculty_training
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  • wlampner on 06 Jul 16
     
    The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. From Wendy - we may want to encourage our faculty to use this, but this also provides an opportunity for them to contribute their own practices.
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For Students Taking Online Courses, a Completion Paradox - 0 views

chronicle.com/...237015
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  • Steve Kaufman on 05 Jul 16
     
    Researchers ponder the finding that at community colleges, online classes result in lower grades but more completed degrees.
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How to Prepare Professors Who Thought They'd Never Teach Online - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...236873 elearning faculty_training tools lightboard
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  • hat comes through in the video, imperfect as it surely is, is a sense of authenticity.
  • watching a clip repeatedly isn’t a bad thing when it comes to learning.
  • He had been worried about making his lecture videos perfect — thinking that he had to give a command performance every time the camera was rolling, as if he were in a Hollywood production
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  • "I don’t expect hyper-efficiency when I teach face to face.
  • ig called a "lightboard," designed a few years ago by a professor at Northwestern University
  • It’s not just that it looks cool, it actually works better
  • autions the professor not to write so much on the board that it blocks her face.
  • 20 minutes of "pre-draw
  • ready to rehearse
  • five-minute lecture twice, each time noting how long it takes and how well she stays focused on the points she wants to emphasize. The goal is to shoot the video in one take, so there is no room for flubs
  • need to let the camera linger on the professor for a few seconds after her lecture so that the video doesn’t appear to end abruptly
  • he tries to think about the students who will be out there watching, eventually. But for now she is bathed in harsh light in a windowless concrete box, remembering to smile
  • It took well over an hour to produce the five-minute clip
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The Making of a Teaching Evangelist - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...236706 problem_based_learning active_learning lecture
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  • Mr. Mazur realized what he had really been teaching them: to memorize formulas.
  • Joy is not a word that often describes the lecture.
  • One humanities professor wrote last year that lectures work because they demand that students pay close attention, connect ideas, and understand how to build an argument.
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  • Mr. Mazur wondered whether lecturing was an ethical teaching choice.
  • The lecture creates the perfect illusion
  • Students learn when they think about what they’re hearing and organize it into salient points. "This places the responsibility for learning on the student,
  • modern zeitgeist places the responsibility on the instructor.
  • Lecturing, he says, serves another important purpose. It reaffirms the importance of expertise and allows students to see how an expert role-models the process of working through a problem.
  • Learning is not a spectator sport,"
  • Lectures are inexpensive for institutions, allowing hundreds of students to be assigned to one faculty member.
  • Mr. Mazur often likes to cite education research suggesting that students overestimate how much they learn from a smoothly delivered lecture.
  • a lecture is only as passive as the listener
  • His syllabus dedicates two paragraphs to the virtues of failure
  • Students post comments on the reading and respond to one another’s annotations
  • comments drive the next class.
  • o answer each problem, students do four things: articulate the problem in their own words, devise a plan to answer it, execute it, and evaluate how well it worked.
  • omplete the problem sets alone before class and work in teams during it to correct errors
  • not graded on how correct their answers are but on their effort and their accuracy in judging how well they understood the problem.
  • udents do complete five hourlong "Readiness Assurance Activities" during the semester. In the first half-hour they solve the problems alone; they can consult the internet but not one another. In the second, they go over the problems again, this time with their teams. Their scores reflect individual mastery and collective contribution.
  • Project-based learning is the center of the new course. Students work in teams. Many projects have low-stakes competitions attached to them, like constructing the most secure safe by using magnets as locks. Other projects have an explicit social benefit, like building musical instruments for an orchestra for poor children in Venezuela.
  • Mr. Mazur has moved himself far offstage; he missed about 40 percent of the meetings this past semester. Class just rolls on without him.
  • Peers, Mr. Mazur says, are a far greater source of motivation than a professor.
  • Students read material before class on an online platform
  • They should see failures, he writes, as "learning opportunities, not negatives, as steppingstones to success."
  • Repeated failure, as he has learned, is necessary for success.
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Small, Rural Colleges Grapple With Their Geography - 0 views

chronicle.com/...236761 education colleges campus size
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  • Steve Kaufman on 13 Jun 16
     
    Kayaks and gorgeous views. A cellphone tower. A Starbucks not so far away. When recruiting students and faculty members, colleges in remote locations count unusual assets as part of their appeal.
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Explore - Zapier - 1 views

zapier.com/explore automation workflow tools
shared by wlampner on 10 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 10 Jun 16
     
    Wendy absolutely believes this is guaranteed to save you time and eliminate some mind numbing repetitive tasks we all do.
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Silk - Publish your data online - 1 views

www.silk.co/home visualization UADDS_BP4TO data storytelling
shared by wlampner on 10 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Silk lets anyone create interactive data visualizations, publish websites, and tell interactive stories.
  • nnouncing Google Sheet Sync | Automatically update your Silk with a Shee
  • wlampner on 10 Jun 16
     
    Silk lets anyone create interactive data visualizations, publish websites, and tell interactive stories. Automatically silks with data in Google sheets.
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Virtual reality: could it revolutionise higher education? | THE News - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.com/...revolutionise-higher-education VR Virtual_reality
shared by wlampner on 03 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Conrad Tucker, an assistant professor of engineering at Pennsylvania State University, has received funding to build a virtual engineering lab where students hold, rotate and fit together virtual parts as they would with their real hands
  • One question his project aims to answer is whether students learn as well in VR as they do in real classrooms, or whether without being physically present with their classmates, they miss out on developing intangible skills such as teamwork
  • The same year saw the University of British Columbia experiment with a full lecture in VR. Five students were given an earlier version of the Oculus Rift headset and sat in a virtual classroom where they watched a gaming lawyer deliver a lecture
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  • with headsets covering their entire field of view, the students were unable to take notes in the real world.
  • ou activate more of your brain because…it’s not a single channel [sense]
  • llow users to toggle between modes, hiding and then revealing the reconstructed parts
  • could, however, help universities to optimise their use of space, reserving real labs for when they are truly needed.
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Screens vs. Print: Does Digital Reading Change How Students Get the Big Picture? - Insi... - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...ding_change_comprehension.html e-readers digital textbooks oer
shared by Teresa Potter on 01 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Among young adults who regularly use smartphones and tablets, just reading a story or performing a task on a screen instead of on paper led to greater focus on concrete details, but less ability to infer meaning or quickly get the gist of a problem,
  • Using a digital format can develop a "mental 'habit' of triggering a more detail-focused mindset, one that prioritizes processing local, immediate information rather than considering more abstract, decontextualized interpretations of information
  • the paper users were significantly more "abstract" in thinking. Digital participants reported preferring concrete rather than abstract descriptions of a behavior
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  • But first, they asked a third of the young adults to think about why they would solve a problem—a way to trigger an abstract frame of thinking—and asked another third to think about how they would solve a problem—designed to prime them for concrete thinking. The third group had no priming. Of the digital readers who had been primed to think abstractly, 48 percent chose the correct car—significantly more than the 25 percent of digital readers primed to think concretely,
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The Writers, Directors, and Producers who Make Films that Fail the Bechdel Test - 0 views

polygraph.cool/bechdel gender infographics
shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16
     
    Another page that looks at gender in films. Also with some nice charts.
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The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 m... - 1 views

polygraph.cool/index.html gender infographics
shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16
     
    Analysis of gender and age of 2,000 film scripts. Pretty interesting and lots of nifty little charts and info-graphics.
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A Bear's-Eye View of Yellowstone - 0 views

www.nationalgeographic.com/...one-national-parks-bears-video infographics biology biology_apps bears
shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 05 May 16 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 05 May 16
     
    Interesting website that provides some vignettes in the lives of 4 bears in Yellowstone who were fitted with cameras.
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