Earlier this month, Microsoft announced several new Microsoft Teams features that will better target education users. Microsoft Teams is known as an enterprise-level collaboration tool that allows chatting, file sharing, and meeting in a centralized, secure location. Microsoft Teams already …
How much ‘work’ should my online course be for me and my students?
How much work is too much (or too little) work for my students? How much work is too much work for my TAs or for me? How do I design an online course? A post where I propose ‘Total Work …
12 Little-Known Microsoft OneNote Features You Will Love
If you’re already using OneNote for Windows or OneNote 2016, then these features will speed up your work. And if you’ve never used it before, you’re about to find out how useful these OneNote features can be to organize almost …
Microsoft Teams now available for personal use as Microsoft targets friends and families
Microsoft is launching the personal version of Microsoft Teams today in preview. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to remain relevant with consumers and win them back after a series of exits from consumer-friendly services.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298766/microsoft-teams-personal-launch-preview-accounts?…
Why your organization needs a BYOD policy
With BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), the expense of providing employees company-owned devices and then supporting them was replaced with employee allowances to use their own phones, tablets, and laptops.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-your-organization-needs-a-byod-policy/…
Presentation of the Week: Ethical Codes and Learning Analytics
The new science of personalized vaccines
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In Their Own Words: Here’s What Professors, Chairs, and Deans Learned From Remote Courses This Spring
The Chronicle analyzed 712 responses from faculty members and 457 from administrators to see what terms were among those that occurred most commonly (variants of the same word were grouped). Here’s what we found, edited for brevity and clarity.
What’s coming in Moodle 3.9
The long awaited release of Moodle 3.9 is almost here! In June, we’ll see a range of enhancements for Moodle students, teachers and administrators. Let’s take a look at some of the new features you can expect to see in …
Online learning is here to stay – so we must work out how to do it well
The rapid shift to online work and study has forced providers to extend already over-stretched budgets. ‘Emergency’ IT infrastructure and software have been brought in at pace, and we’ve seen fast-track digital upskilling for staff and students. Such upheaval posed …
How Chrome’s Short URLs Can Increase Your Security
Google might soon truncate the full address of websites you visit. By only showing the domain name of a website in the address bar rather than the full URL, Google’s move could actually help people increase their security when browsing …
The 7 elements of a good online course
Good online courses can be more personal and rewarding for students than the traditional learning in large lecture halls. Here’s some advice for students about what to look for as learning remains online.
https://theconversation.com/the-7-elements-of-a-good-online-course-139736…
Want students to thrive? Build them a learning ecosystem
Learning ecosystems help break silos and scaffold collaboration and equity for students, educators, and communities.
https://remakelearning.org/blog/2020/06/08/students-thrive-ecosystem/…
How to Keep Students’ Attention in a Virtual Classroom
Teachers worried about students zoning out during distance learning can lean on these programs for help.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-keep-students-attention-virtual-classroom…
What Comes After Phase 3?
This is a conversation with some people from the health care industry in the U.S. asking about what I expect to see after the current wave of technology. The current wave, which I discussed in my E-Learning 3.0 course, involves …