Vanderbilt University Source: cft.vanderbilt.edu This link has two articles in it. It defines what Metacognition is and gives some practical ways to implement it in learning. How often do you stop during a lecture (or other activity) and give students a chance to process what you have been saying or doing? Sometimes, we get so […]
Read More »The future’s biggest online movements in education are taking shape today. Source: www.edtechmagazine.com This infographic looks at 10 trends to watch in online learning. It is interesting to note that most of them are things that we are looking into/actively working on at Missouri S&T.
Read More »Source: www4.ncsu.edu Dr.s Felder and Brent (both have been keynotes at our conference) point out a very important fact in this article. The only way for students to develop a skill is to have them practice that skill. If you require them to do something on a test or even in class it is important […]
Read More »Source: ideaedu.org This is a great article that brings together various research studies on active learning in STEM fields. The research shows that students learn more when active group-work methods are used. This article also gives examples of these different methods.
Read More »Source: www.cmu.edu What is the most important thing in your course for students to know or do in five years? That’s the question that we use to start the first consultation we have with instructors. It is important to understand what you expect of students. This becomes the foundation that instructors build their course. Once […]
Read More »I had the opportunity to attend a conference in October called Transforming Institutions: 21st Century STEM Education. There were many good ideas that I took away from this conference but the question that I started the conference with is, what is Transforming Institutions, STEM Education really all about. I know what STEM is. It stands […]
Read More »I had the opportunity to attend a conference in October called Transforming Institutions: 21st Century STEM Education. There were many good ideas that I took away from this conference but one that continues to resonate with me is that for many of us in higher education, we influence student success by helping to make faculty […]
Read More »Last year, Educational Technology supported a committee of faculty and students to evaluate our current Learning Management System (LMS), Blackboard. This LMS Review effort was part of a larger project to understand whether the portfolio of learning technologies we had implemented on campus contained the best tools to meet the needs of instructors and students […]
Read More »“Technology alone will not improve learning. However, it can support the learning process by making access more convenient and enabling new activities.” Learning Objects MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Connexions – The Connexions Consortium (http://cnxconsortium.org) is a group of organizations and individuals, including the world’s foremost leaders in education, who […]
Read More »How do you know a student is engaged in your course? What steps do you take to foster engagement? These are questions that every instructor begins to ask as they are doing course design as it is vital to the success of the course. “Engaged learners work willingly, instead of by coercion, and approach their […]
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