Month: April 2010

SLOAN-C: Blended Lab Science Courses: Combining the Best of Online and Traditional Teaching Methods

Posted by on April 23, 2010

 Presenter: Pam Kachka with the University of Colorado-Denver Blended courses ar ethose in which a significant portion of the learning activities have been moved online, and classroom time is reduced but not eliminated.  But how much are science courses online? It appears that there are very few online science courses. Advantages of Traditional Labs: No […]

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SLOAN-C: Pedagogic Freedoms of a Blended Science Course

Posted by on April 23, 2010

Presenter: Gerald Bergtrom; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dr. Bergtrom teaches biological science at UWM. Dr. Bergtrom’s blended course is cellular biology. It has around 80 students and meets once a week for 75 minutes. The other 75 minutes takes place in the online environment. His traditional face-to-face (F2F) course met for 150 minutes per week. Students […]

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Blackboard 9 is HERE!

Posted by on April 5, 2010

Blackboard 9 is now available on our campus, along with the current version (Blackboard 8). Visit http://blackboard9.mst.edu to see what the new interface looks like. This is a temporary link to give you the opportunity to preview the new interface and features. The official S&T Blackboard web site will still be http://blackboard.mst.edu. All campus Blackboard […]

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