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 […]
Read More »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.
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
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 »IT scholar says PDF tweaks allow students’ copied work to evade detection. Hannah Fearn reports Source: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
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Read More »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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