When you teach online, your inbox is always overflowing with student email. What can you do to make sure you’re not snowed under by student email, answering message after message for hours on end?
Presentation of the Week: Using social media to support learning in higher education
How to tame your wandering mind
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Formal and Informal Learning: What’s the Difference?
Formal and informal learning are two opposing learning styles. One is pragmatic and organized. The other, casual and unstructured. So, let’s dive in, scrutinize each, and figure out which learning practice will work best for your organization.
https://www.learnupon.com/blog/formal-and-informal-learning/…
“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson
“There’s a famous phrase: The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you’ve got one,” says Pearson CEO John Fallon. And for the education company Pearson, the problem is also one of its key products: the textbook.
10 Great Apps to Enhance Teachers Productivity
When it comes to organizing one’s workflow and enhancing productivity iPad can do wonders. There are a wide variety of wonderful apps you can utilize to transform your digital experiences and be more productive. The apps below can help facilitate …
How to ditch Google Chrome for Firefox
It might be time to break your Google Chrome habit. Though Google’s browser is the most popular browser by an overwhelming margin, there are some good reasons to switch, especially if you care about privacy.
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-switch-from-google-chrome-to-firefox…
Engage learners in online discussions in Moodle with the PDF Annotation plugin
PDF Annotation allows a course teacher to upload a PDF file which course participants can then comment on, highlight and discuss. This gives the PDF some interactivity rather than being a static resource.
15 Gmail shortcuts you didn’t know you needed
Spend a large portion of your day using Gmail? If you send and receive the majority of your Gmails on a computer, keyboard shortcuts can save you hours of time. There are dozens of Gmail keyboard shortcuts; presented here …
Edward Snowden Says Facebook Is Spying On You
Facebook — which, never forget owns Instagram — is an ethically dubious surveillance juggernaut is no surprise to anyone who’s been paying even the slightest bit of attention. That Snowden feels it necessary to remind us of this fact, and …
China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.
In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue “intelligent education.” Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.
This Site Summarizes Long Articles To You Don’t Have to Read Them
TLDR (which stands for Too Long, Didn’t Read), summarizes long articles that are too long for you to read, so you don’t have to read them.
https://lifehacker.com/this-site-summarizes-long-articles-to-you-dont-have-to-1836952823…
The Best Note-taking Apps for Class, Work, and Life
I have spent the past few weeks — but really, it’s been the past few years — hunting for the perfect note-taking app. I’m here to tell you that it doesn’t exist, if only because everybody’s definition of “perfect” is …
The human skills we need in an unpredictable world
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