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Literature on Learning: The Little EdTech Library

Posted by on April 6, 2015

Curious about course outcomes? Puzzled by pedagogy? Interested in instructional design? Come browse the EdTech library! All S&T instructors are welcome to stop by and check out any of the several books selected by our instructional design and development team. Each work was identified as a particularly useful reference for structuring your course content around […]

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Congratulations Amy Skyles!

Posted by on March 20, 2015

Congratulations to Amy Skyles! She has worked hard on the DELTA Lab initiative and just recently won the OLC Effective Practice Award. Check out the information on the award here http://olc.onlinelearningconsortium.org/effective_practices/delivering-experiential-labs-all.

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Using Tegrity? You must explicitly allow it to run in your browser.

Posted by on February 27, 2015

The Tegrity lecture capture software was recently updated, and this update is causing browsers to flag Tegrity as a potentially unsafe program. This situation can cause problems when attempting to record or playback video; it may appear that the program has stalled or that nothing is happening, but the program is waiting for your permission […]

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“Electronic Blackboard” technology of the 1960’s – A quick look back

Posted by on February 23, 2015

Did you know that electronic learning systems have been in use at American universities for over 50 years now? While Blackboard itself isn’t quite that old, its predecessors such as the PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations) system—pictured here—date back to the early 1960s, well before the implementation of the internet as we know […]

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10 Online Learning Trends to Watch in 2015 [#Infographic]

Posted by on January 21, 2015

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.

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Learning By Doing

Posted by on January 20, 2015

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 […]

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Active Learning Strategies in Face-to-Face Courses

Posted by on January 20, 2015

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.

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Plagiarism software can be beaten by simple tech tricks

Posted by on December 2, 2014

IT scholar says PDF tweaks allow students’ copied work to evade detection. Hannah Fearn reports Source: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk

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The College Plagiarism Infographic – e-Learning Infographics

Posted by on December 2, 2014

The health informatics program at the University of Illinois at Chicago presents The Reality And Solution Of College Plagiarism Infographic. Source: University of Illinois-Chicago

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