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Mathieu Plourde

Get the lowdown from Brown (Canvas selection) - 0 views

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    Please join Ivy League LMS experts, Wendy Drexler and Catherine Zabrieske of Brown University for this informative webinar during which they will discuss five lessons they learned in their search for an open access LMS, how they formed their selection committee, involved faculty and students, and why they ultimately selected Canvas as their LMS. Drexler and Zabrieske will also discuss the latest on MOOCs in general as well as specifically how using Canvas Network as a platform for their MOOC "Exploring Engineering" has allowed them to create a more interactive course that engages students and keeps participation high rather than merely providing lectures and quizzes.
Mathieu Plourde

Digitally Savvy Students Play Hide-and-Seek With Campus Messages - 0 views

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    ""Most campuses are seeing that we can't just keep firing this content out on all channels," says Malcolm Brown, a director at Educause, the higher-education-technology consortium. Not only do students feel inundated, but staff members may be overwhelmed by the extra work of reporting events and messages on multiple sites."
Mathieu Plourde

MOOCagogy: Assessment, Networked Learning, and the Meta-MOOC - 0 views

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    "This kind of learning can't be scaffolded or too-carefully architectured but must be discovered in the act. In A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown write, "Our understanding comes not through a linear progression, in which each step confirms that you are on the right path. Rather, it arises through approaching the problem from many angles and ultimately seeing its logic only at the end" (98)."
Mathieu Plourde

Creating A Comic Style For Learning - 0 views

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    "Comics are also great at abstracting away details so that readers uses their imagination to focus on what they want. You draw a character simply so that the readers can insert themselves or someone they know and relate to the character. This abstracted style of art also leaves room for comics to be incredibly expressive. Whether it's a smiley face, the dynamic motion of a superhero, or Charlie Brown missing a football, the medium communicates a lot with very little."
Mathieu Plourde

California: Open-source textbook bills head to Gov. Jerry Brown - 0 views

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    The bills would create an online library of digital textbooks for the 50 most widely-taken lower division courses at the University of California, California State University and the state's community colleges. The project would get under way when state or private funding becomes available. The digital texts would be "open-source," which means they are not copyrighted the same way traditional texts are, making them much less expensive. The texts are primarily available online; students can typically buy a print-out for around $20, about one-tenth the cost of many traditional textbooks.
Mathieu Plourde

Student wrongly tied to Boston bombings found dead - 0 views

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    After the April 15 bombings of the Boston Marathon, crowdsourcing groups drawing upon photos released by the FBI of a suspect erroneously reported via Reddit, a social news website, that the person in a baseball cap strongly resembled the missing student. At one point, Tripathi's name landed on the Twitter top trends list.
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Paul Gordon Brown - 0 views

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    "Thanks for taking the time to look at some of my work! I'm a JetBlue adherent, a coffee addict, a foodie and an iPhoneographer. I am also a speaker, consultant and educator on a wide variety of topics impacting colleges and universities and their students."
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