Lead Presenter: Sarah Brittain Dysart; Loyola University-Chicago From concept to process to product (almost). Sarah’s group focuses on the pedagogy behind blended/online learning. Loyola is a Blackboard institution and they have a very nice building from which to conduct their operations. They have a media lab for multimedia content creation. They work with academic technology […]
Read More »Lead Presenter: Jack Dempsey; University of South Alabama Graduate students working for Jack have done a lot of faculty development for his university. Jack is a professor of instructional design for his university. Students can gain highly marketable skills by developing materials for faculty. They also learn everything that the faculty need to know in […]
Read More »Presenters: Carolyn Kraut with Michael Edwards How can social networking tools be used with students to enhance learning? The presentation can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/teachersbestweapon/. (The presenters are using prezi.com for the presentation and it is a really cool way of mixing up presentations.) Do you ban social media in your school or classroom? For […]
Read More »UPDATE: Quality Matters was one of several presentations at this webinar series provided courtesy of Sloan-C. Although Quality Matters has worked with Sloan-C in the past, it is a separate organization and not actually a part of Sloan-C. Quality Matters has asked us to clarify this point. Now back to the regularly scheduled post about […]
Read More »Presenters: Matthew Russell & Gerald Bergtrom; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This is a clicker-enabled presentation using an older generation of TurningPoint’s clickers. Matt has a Ph.D. in comparative literature and Gerry is a professor of Biology at UWM. Collaborative learning (CL) is about students working together, whether on the content of the course on reflecting on […]
Read More »Presenter: Ike Shibley; Pennsylvania State University Dr. Shibley (and Penn State) uses class guides in his blended courses to add a level of additional organization to how each of the classes is run. A class guide is a simple document that describes how the content in a blended course is organized. Students are expected to […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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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