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Students keep learning when video lectures available. Some useful comments.

The goal of this study is to produce a report with 8-12 case studies which have used social software to support and engage learners, or have embedded the social software within the pedagogy of a course or a programme.

"This page features innovative uses of online collaboration tools (OCTs) for teaching and course management. You can browse the full list or use the search criteria to find the examples most relevant to you. Click on any title for a full description or use the Links to watch short videos of faculty describing their teaching strategies and see examples. For a summary of practical recommendations for effectively implementing OCTs in one's teaching, see CRLT's Occasional Paper No. 31: Teaching in the Cloud: Leveraging Online Collaboration Tools to Enhance Student Engagement."

"Massive Online Open Course for Educators, or MOOC-Eds, are professional development experiences that will engage you in new technology-enabled learning opportunities that are becoming widely used for both adults and students"

Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Screen Australia's remarkable archive-one of the nation's largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched with print-friendly two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers.

"This page serves as the online 'home base' for the CFT workshop titled 'Engaging Students in Large Lecture Courses' held on Wednesday, February 17, 2010."

"'We found no evidence for any discontinuity in technology use around the age of 30 as would be predicted by the Net Generation and Digital Natives hypothesis,' says the report. What the reseachers do find interesting and worthy of further study is the correlation--which is independent of age--between attitudes to technology and approaches to studying. In short, students who more readily use technology for their studies are more likely than others to be deeply engaged with their work."

That last point is pretty powerful. Need to get the data replicated elsewhere as next stage. But as always, different people are different!

"LectureTools is not lecture capture. It is a tool designed to help student engagement during your lecture. It offers a variety of ways for profs to build in interactive elements into the lecture..."

Student response system using any device you have to hand with web access. Looks promising.

"Rather than using clickers, students learned how to use Google Forms in class to answer questions alone or in small working groups."

Keep videos short, include a person.

Stefani paper on student engagement, the need for curriculum redesign and innovative and authentic assessment examples.

Does HE require minimum standards for LMS / VLE use? Post suggests students at least expect so.

Enhancing Students' Learning Experiences Through the Use of Digital Storytelling

10 resources.

links to three interesting articles on rethinking lecturing as a teaching method including a new experimental college in the USA - the University of Minnesota Rochester