“Metacognitive strategies facilitate learning how to learn. You can incorporate these, as appropriate, into eLearning courses, social learning experiences, pre- and post-training activities and other formal or informal learning experiences.” Source: theelearningcoach.com This article provides ten strategies for incorporating metacognitive strategies into teaching and learning. Ask Questions Foster Self Reflection Encourage Self Questioning Teach Strategies […]
Read More »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 educational tools that we choose often shape how we educate our students, so let’s choose them wisely with one eye on the future. Source: www.edutopia.org This same concept applies to a lot of lab courses. There’s some big machine which drives the lab activity because it’s there, we’ve paid for it, and it’s all […]
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 »The NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE Program. The tenth edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, […]
Read More »At Missouri S&T, the experiential experience is a top priority. That’s what drives students to a STEM school with an engineering focus in a small town in Rural Missouri that’s more than an hour… Source: blog.sloanconsortium.org Here’s a look at laboratory redesign projects going on at S&T. We’ve got several courses piloting now and others […]
Read More »The Missouri S&T Educational Technology office is proud to support a new tool on campus called iThenticate. Brought to you by the same company behind Turnitin, iThenticate is a plagiarism prevention tool intended for use by professional academic researchers and publishers. Like Turnitin, iThenticate generates originality reports by comparing submitted work to previously published work. […]
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 […]
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