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More recently, researchers have begun to adapt the model to better understand the how the connection between face-to-face and online learning might boost potential of hybrid formats to function as interactive communities of inquiry

"This article is significantly longer than previous installments. It features 4 interactive slideshows, each introducing a new tool as well as related concepts around it. In one way, it's just another math guide, but going much deeper. In another, it's a thesis on everything I know about animating. Their intersection is a handbook for anyone who wants to make things move with code, but I hope it's an interesting read even if that's not your goal."

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Use our interactive map to figure out how many flyover states it takes to equal one New York City.

An interesting place to find/share/interact with audio. You can remix many of the tracks and make audio notes that are associated with specific points in time on the audio track. Easily embed in WordPress using just the URL to the page.

A WordPress parent theme for interactive maps and journalism

Facilitation has its own challenges. One was in facilitating collaborative work among the students. "There're a lot of assumptions made about students, that they're able to interact naturally in a group," Shen observes. "Even though you give them roles, you assume the leader will always know how to play the role of a leader, but not necessarily so." "We had to teach them group work skills too," she adds. "It's learning for both the teachers and the students."

Whoa. Just whoa.

Creating a sense of community in the classroom and making meaningful student-faculty interactions can help curb retention issues in higher ed.

A wave of change aims to produce young doctors who are better prepared to meet the demands of the nation's changing health-care system - using team based learning, more interactive and hands-on learning opportunities, etc. Great quote from the article: "We've replaced 'the sage on the stage' with 'the guide on the side,' "

"Biology was once largely a descriptive science, largely limited to agriculture and medicine. This is no longer true. Biology is Technology. From programmable microbes to human-machine symbiosis, biological technologies are expanding our definition of technology and redefining how we interact with and use biology. We now have the opportunity for a radically new approach to developing game-changing applications and solutions to intractable problems. "

An interesting look at how news sites are using various tools to create interactive stories. Targeted towards journalists but still has some potential for higher ed use

"This week, the Connected Learning Research Network, a research group that I chair, released a report (PDF) that outlines how connected learning environments are designed and how they can benefit youth in networked society, especially the underprivileged and vulnerable. The report calls for several core changes in education, including: * Close the gap between the no-frills learning that too often happens in-school and the interactive, hands-on learning that usually takes place out of school; * Take advantage of the Internet's ability to help youth develop knowledge, expertise, skills and important new literacies; * Use the benefits of digital technology and social networking to combat the increasing reality of the haves and have-nots in education. "

BMC Microbiology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in analytical and functional studies of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, viruses and small parasites, as well as host and therapeutic responses to them, and their interaction with the environment.BMC Microbiology is part of the BMC series which publishes subject-specific journals focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. We offer an efficient, fair and friendly peer review service, and are committed to publishing all sound science, provided that there is some advance in knowledge presented by the work.

"In many respects the world has become a global knowledge society of interconnected and interdependent human activity that shares increasingly common ways to communicate and interact politically, economically and socially. Yet, at the same time, the world continues to be highly diverse in these areas as well as linguistically and culturally. "

Awesome visual CV

nice simple visualization