Researching, planning, and developing a new course has always been costly and time-consuming, and with the increased pressure of delivering most or all courses online, there’s a level of demand and complexity like never before. The Open Online Courses Project …
McGill and Trafalgar School forge new partnership to transform education
McGill University’s Faculty of Education and Trafalgar School for Girls are partnering to establish a transformative partnership – the CoLab. A first of its kind in Canada, the CoLab will integrate teacher training, classroom practice and cutting-edge pedagogical research under …
Cheating by Student or Faculty – What can be Done?
One recent publication suggested misconduct and plagiarism is the new “arms race” in higher education. Essay mills, custom writing services, paid exam takers, partners undertaking assignments for their loved ones, and some parents completing assignments for their offspring are all …
MoocNote – Add Quizzes to Existing Videos
You can now use MoocNote to add multiple choice, true/false, multiple selection, and fill-in-the-blank questions to the timeline of any video that you find on YouTube (premium users can import their own videos as well).
https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/09/moocnote-add-quizzes-to-existing-videos.html…
With schools online, software to catch students cheating is big business
Not only teaching. That’s happening remotely for millions of students testing to and many colleges are using software to watch students take those tests, big providers, include respond, US, proctor, you and PROC. Some of them use webcams to track …
Make The Best of Your Gmail with These Sticky Notes Tools
For those of you using Gmail, the extensions below are definitely worth trying out. They will help you enhance your productivity and transform your emailing experience. The apps allow you to add notes and sticky post-it notes to your emails …
Video Tutorials for Teachers for the Inclusive Use of Smartphones
In September 2020, Profweb spoke to Anick Legault, a Psychology teacher and Adaptech Research Network Research Associate at Dawson who developed a series of video tutorials within the ECQ project designed to inspire teachers to use smartphones as part of …
Personalizing performance, not learning: lessons from mass customization
Applying principles of mass customization in L&D design and leveraging digital learning transfer technology can greatly accelerate the impact rate of mission-critical training.
4 New Zoom Features Educators Can Use to Enhance Virtual Teaching & Learning
Zoom has a bunch of features you can use to better manage the online teaching experience, and we just rolled out four brand-new ones! Here’s how our features will help you teach — and students learn — over Zoom.
https://blog.zoom.us/4-new-zoom-features-educators-can-use-to-enhance-virtual-teaching-learning/…
An H5P Branching Scenario That Might Break the Boat
Since June I have been pretty deep in H5P support for a BCcampus project (yes. the kitchen). But I had a deep run with H5P on a project earlier in the year, likely pushing the limits of what the Branching …
A Review of 13 Language Learning Tactics (Tested From Learning 9 Languages)
In my journey learning 9 languages over the years, I tried all sorts of different methods to make my learning more effective. Here are some of the notable approaches, along with why they work (or don’t work). It will be …
Online Courses the New Norm in College
While 40 percent of IT higher education IT leaders and instructional technologists said in June 2020 that their college or university was planning for “mostly in-person” classes for the fall, that share plummeted to less than 5 percent by August.…
Annotating and Correcting on a Tablet
In the context of distance learning, handing in assignments in electronic format has quickly become essential. Although all office software suites (Microsoft 365, iWork, G Suite, OpenOffice and LibreOffice, among others) allow documents to be highlighted and annotated efficiently, the …
Screen Readers for Students with Low or No Vision
A screen reader is a tool or plug-in that uses assistive technology to make it possible for users with low or no vision to access and read web content. This is usually done through different techniques including text to speech …
Zoom Features Wishlist
We’ve been using Zoom at scale since March, and have learned how to use it well for everything from 1:1 meetings up to classes of 500+ students. Here are some ideas to improve the Zoom experience.