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"Presented on May 8, 2019 by Dr. Janette Isaacson and Grant Kirby form Oregon Institute of Technology It all started with the question, "Are we really sure students are learning what we think they are learning?" Hear how faculty at Oregon Institute of Technology have used Quality Matters Standards and Coursetune mapping software to strengthen course design and alignment across the courses they teach. Dr. Janette Isaacson and Grant Kirby have implemented a student-centered instructional design model that begins with three key components: QM is the foundation of quality metrics; Coursetune provides scalable modeling for alignment mapping; real-time student feedback provides an empirical measurement for quality success."

"Create beautiful timelines! Tiki-Toki is the best and easiest way to create beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web"

"Each day, our NYC-based team produces one-minute video lessons covering every change to the world's most popular websites, mobile apps and online tools and we deliver those lessons in real-time."

"Generation C is not a demographic. It's everyone. They're connected, and they're in control."

"Deliver native, remote and virtualized apps from one simple dashboard"

"The same is true in the digital world. Gregory Ulmer, a theorist at the University of Florida coined the term electracy to describe this broader notion of digital literacy. At universities we are all more aware now of the growing significance of digital literacy, as we are seeing a widespread transition from print to digital and an accompanying transformation of teaching and learning practices."

"Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source."

ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations. ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.

"Skitch lets you save what you capture to your desktop, of course, but the program also connects with Evernote, WordPress, and Flickr. If you have an Evernote account, you can save images online and share them in FaceBook, Twitter, or anywhere else you like. One of the best features, though, is annotation. You can add text, arrows, et cetera - and even edit them later on."

Powerful Instructional Tools for Instructors and Students Delivers an automatic grading solution for math and science courses. Reinforces student learning through practice and instant feedback. Offers instructors a wide selection of textbooks and advanced teaching tools.

Over the next few slides we've rounded up 12 excellent free and open source applications worth investigating and experimenting with.

"GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource. What can it do? Gantt chart. Create work breakdown structure, draw dependencies, define milestones."

Record Audio and Video Save Skype Videos on Evernote and Dropbox Share Call Records on Facebook or Email English, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Japanese Record Shared Screen and Chat from your Skype calls Take instant snapshots during your video calls Manage Skype Call Recordings locally

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What were you doing in 1983? Even if you were already born, of adult age, and at the leading edge of technology, marveling at the revolutionary new Lotus 1-2-3 software on your IBM PC, you almost certainly weren't launching a web startup. Unless you happened to be French.

"The GNU Manifesto is characteristic of its author-deceptively simple, lucid, explicitly left-leaning, and entirely uncompromising. He explains the point of the project in short, declarative sentences: "[A] user who needs changes in the system will always be free to make them himself, or hire any available programmer or company to make them for him. Users will no longer be at the mercy of one programmer or company which owns the sources and is in [the] sole position to make changes."

"Introducing TweetDeck Teams, a simple way to share access to your Twitter accounts without sharing passwords. The feature is starting to roll out today on TweetDeck for web, Chrome and Windows."

"WeVideo is the cloud-based video creation platform that encourages student creativity, storytelling, engagement and multimodal learning. Video projects construct deep knowledge about a topic by forming skills like collaboration, communication and critical thinking."