UA DDS

"The Affordable Learning Exchange was created to help instructors take ownership of their courses and content. We are here to help navigate the waters of affordable resources and find creative solutions that promote students savings. This includes re-imagining the textbook, encouraging faculty innovation, and empowering our faculty through grants and training opportunities to adopt, adapt, create and share open educational resources"

"The following list offers 15 sources of quality digital content to use in your courses without worrying about the price tag. "

The Open Textbook Network (OTN) promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks.

FindLectures.com is a curated search engine for quality online lectures, interviews, documentaries, and historically significant speeches. The video list can be navigated with a deep topic taxonomy, which allows the discovery of interesting niche topics. Videos are ranked using over a dozen quality measures, so that you can spend time learning, not looking.

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?

U of Oregon process (selected Canvas to replace Bb)

Helpful as we look at an LMS search By Phil HillMore Posts (434) By: Phil Hill and Justin Menard. Cross-posted at LISTedTECH Three and a half years ago Phil wrote a post "Snapshot of LMS Market for Large Online Programs in the US" giving a view into this ... Continue reading →

Sharing/using other instructor's materials like videos in support of active learning .... I like this para especially: "The impact is especially great for women and others under-represented in STEM fields. Studies show that the achievement gap in STEM classes can be reduced or even annihilated for women, first-generation college students and underrepresented minority students if active learning strategies are employed. In order to make this happen in the classroom, it is effective to place some amount of foundational learning outside of class time."

Using data collected from 2,124 student participants from across 15 public and private colleges and universities, the results are carefully analyzed and broken down by different student subgroups.

"The Throwable Microphone for Audience Engagement."

"The study, "A Study of Four New Models and Their Implications for Bending the Higher Education Cost Curve," prepared by, rpkGROUP, a consulting firm, and funded by the Lumina Foundation, studied CBE programs at four institutions: the University of Wisconsin-Extension and Kentucky Community and Technical System (both public universities), Brandman University (a private nonprofit university) and Walden University (a private for-profit college).  It suggests colleges and universities could cut the cost of producing some of their degrees by as much as 50 percent with competency-based education (CBE)."

enhance lecture learning in traditional classroom settings and in online education. This article provides a conceptual framework for thinking about attention and memory during video-recorded lectures, particularly as related to online learning, that builds on 3 key claims: (a) online learning can be conceived as a type of self-regulated learning, (b) mind wandering reflects a failure of executive control that can impair learning from lectures, and (c) providing intermittent tests or quizzes can benefit attention and learning. We then summarize recent studies based on this framework that examine the effects of interpolating brief quizzes in a video-recorded lecture. These studies reveal that interpolated quizzing during a video-recorded lecture reduces mind wandering, increases taskrelevant behaviors such as note taking, boosts learning, and also improves calibration between predicted and actual performance.

Course design spa idea from Aimee

"Portraits" of airports composed of layered images. Illustrates the number or airplanes and their approach/departure angles for various airports. Very interesting way of illustrating quantity of something over time.

Really cool infographic of abnormal EKGs.