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Read More »Presenter: Robert “Rocky” Keel, UMSL Presentation is available at http://tinyurl.com/blended-class-2010 (IE) Rocky prefers to present in the same style as his teaching–interactive with the audience. “Digital Natives” have grown up with technology all of their lives and regularly use their “devices” (e.g. smart phones) to interact with the world around them. Mobile devices in particular […]
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 […]
Read More »Presenters: Arleen Fearing and Marguerite Riley from Southern University Illinois at Edwardsville Objectives: Identify five factors of the constructivism theory that provides a framework for quality student centered online learning. Specify the use of three learning strategies in an online constructivist designed course. Share evaluation results of these online courses from students. About 8 years […]
Read More »Barb Wilkins, Instructional Technologist for EdTech and a math teacher in her own right, presented on using rubrics for courses. One of the points Barb made was that students are already quite familiar with the use of rubrics for evaluating performance. For the past 10 years or so, teachers in K-12 have been trained to […]
Read More »For your education — I found a link to a video on fluorine, the most reactive element in the entire periodic table. This stuff is extremely dangerous by itself, but it exists all around us bound up in molecules such as tin fluoride and sodium fluoride. Fluoride compounds are found in our toothpaste and water […]
Read More »EdTech recently had the opportunity to attend the Sloan Consortium’s (SLOAN-C) 7th Annual Blended Learning Conference & Workshop in Oak Brook, Illinois on April 19-20, 2010. This was a great opportunity to meet other educators who are also engaged in providing blended learning opportunities to their respective campuses. Blended learning is a hybrid of face-to-face […]
Read More »Presenter: Dr. Joel Hartman, University of Central Florida Dr. Hartman was our opening keynote speaker for the recent Teaching and Learning Technology Conference at Missouri S&T. Now he is the plenary speaker for the SLOAN-C Blended Learning Conference & Workshop in Oak Brook, IL, just outside of Chicago. Blended learning has been going on for […]
Read More »Lead Presenter: Tova Duby; Babson College Babson is a small private college in Wellsley, MA. Babson has been working on blended learning for the past 10 years. Babson offered its firts blended course back in 2001. Faculty would not have stood a fully online course, so a blended course was the best compromise. Especially at […]
Read More »Presenters: Suzanne Weinstein with Karen Pollack (Penn State University) Blended Initiative at Penn State was a Provost-funded initiative that targeted dual-use courses. Chose to focus on courses that were high-enrollment and considered general education and would be needed at all campus locations. They also focused on courses that had a high failure rate, math and […]
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