DawsonITE is a blog devoted to Educational Technology. It's compiled by Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College in Montreal (Canada).
Open Education gained more visibility as a result of the emergence of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This article discusses whether MOOCs should be considered as OER.
Students with disabilities and their advocates say access to equitable education has been abandoned in the scramble to move classes online.
https://insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/06/remote-learning-shift-leaves-students-disabilities-behind…
“It is amazing to me that it was just 3 days ago that we made the decision to close schools. In less than 72 hours, Team Duval moved the entire district to an at-home, virtual instruction model. We have managed …
Over these last weeks, institutions around the globe have worked tirelessly to transition teaching and learning online and set up digital classrooms for the health and wellbeing of their students, faculty, and staff. The next step is to ensure students …
Knowt takes the notes that you have in your free Knowt online notebook and turns them into practice quizzes for you. Your notes can be written directly in Knowt or imported from Google Drive, from a document stored on your …
When we try to replicate classroom experiences in an online environment, it’s easy to think of video conferencing as our go-to tool for all sorts of learning objectives—and for good reason.We like the idea of being able to see and …
As educators this week began shifting their coursework online, thousands of them are likely using the Zoom teleconferencing app for class-wide lessons or discussions.
Since we use Microsoft tools, I quickly realized it would make sense for Teams and OneNote to play a leading role in online lessons for my students. We were learning as we went, much like many other educators like you …
Are you creating an online course, event or conference? If you’re not a programmer, and if you don’t have a lot of money to spend, this guide will get you started.
Colleges by the dozen are canceling in-person classes and scrambling to create remote-teaching alternatives. Is it crazy to think that a new virus could be more of a catalyst for online education and other ed-tech tools than decades of punditry …
IST compiled some useful resources for teachers during the college closure:
The quality of student learning and academic rigor is central to higher education. Nonetheless, colleges often prioritize metrics such as enrollment and graduation rates or use assessment data to solely fulfill accreditation requirements.This paper includes the methodology to collect and …
For schoolchildren in northern Italy, the beginning of their second week blocked at home because of coronavirus saw a scramble to adapt digital alternatives to the classroom, ranging from online maths games to homework on Dante sent by WhatsApp.
Everything you do online when you’re signed into Google, and even some stuff when you aren’t, becomes a part of your Google profile, but you can wipe the slate clean with these steps.