Five years ago at the 2013 Open Education Conference, we issued a challenge to the OER community to save students $1 billion by 2018. Today we are thrilled to share that the data show that the OER movement has saved …
The Guardian view on artificial intelligence: human learning
Computers can’t be held responsible for anything. So their owners and programmers must be.
OneNote Class Notebook: A Digital Binder That Will Change the Way You Teach
OneNote is like a digital binder, an online notebook where you can take notes on individual pages, then organize the pages within subject tabs. Because the binder is digital, you can also hyperlink text, embed video and audio, add drawings, …
One Way to Help Students Become Knowledge Creators
Being a professor comes with a certain amount of authority. But some instructors have found that letting go in the classroom and finding ways for students to construct their own knowledge can create a richer experience for them.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/One-Way-to-Help-Students/244769…
The best Internet security: Layers of protection and good habits
The best protection consists of setting up and maintaining layers of security on your devices: keeping your operating system, browsers, and software updated, paying for decent but not overbearing virus and malware protection, installing browser extensions for Web privacy and …
Do classroom clickers improve learning? It depends.
Classroom “clickers” quiz students in real time, allowing instructors to gauge student learning and reinforce what is being taught. New research suggests that the effectiveness of these devices hinges largely on the teaching methods being used with them, not the …
What baby boomers can learn from millennials at work — and vice versa
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Presentation of the Week: How People Learn
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Google to shut down Google+
Google just announced that it will sunset the company’s social networking service Google+ for consumers in the coming 10 month period. Google+ was Google’s last attempt at creating a Facebook competitor that would put Google on equal footing with the …
11 Tools for Teaching With Videos – A PDF Handout
There are times when a good video or video clip can be just the thing that a student needs to see how all of the pieces of a topic come together. And sometimes just seeing a demonstration or hearing an …
Top Tools for Learning 2018
The Top Tools for Learning 2018 list was compiled by Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Below you will find an interactive table of the Top 200 Tools for Learning 2018. This table also shows their …
How Affective Data Could Change Learning Outcomes
Reading and responding to students’ emotions could help boost engagement levels and academic performance.
https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2016/02/how-affective-data-could-change-learning-outcomes…
10 Trends for Digital Learning in 2018
There are some significant new trends in this year’s list. Could this be the tipping point for some real change in how (workplace) learning is perceived and supported?
http://modernworkplacelearning.com/magazine/10-trends-for-digital-learning-in-2018/…
8 Great Translation and Dictionary Apps for Language Learners
The apps include thesauruses, dictionaries, and translation. Students can use these apps to search for meanings of new lexical items, translate across multiple languages, access tons of contextualized examples of language use and many more.
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2018/10/8-great-translation-and-dictionary-apps.html…
Active Presenter: A Complete Solution for the Production of Video Tutorials
I have been producing video tutorials for several years, for all the courses I teach. Over time, I have used different software (JingPro, Camtasia, Screencast-O-Matic, etc.). I found that this software is very complete, even in its free version, and …