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In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. Many are unaware that …

At South By South West 2022, Amy Webb, CEO of Future Today Institute, released their 15th Annual Tech Trends Report looking into a huge variety of trends over 668 pages. She talked about the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI), metaverses …

Harvard experiment reveals the psychological grip of lectures.

https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-college-students-often-dont-know-when-theyre-learning/…

When students learn there will be group work in a course, they often let up a collective groan. Group work tends to leave a bad taste in students’ mouths due to their lack of understanding of group dynamics. If you …

Readlee is a new service that lets you create online reading assignments for your students to complete in your classroom or at home. That’s not what makes it great. What makes it great is found in how your students complete …

Developing your web development skills is easy, when you have the right online courses to learn from. Here are seven of the best websites to use.

https://www.makeuseof.com/websites-learn-web-development-online…

Whether you’re creating a single course or a strategic, enterprise-wide program, following these design imperatives ensures that the learning will be effective, enjoyable, and lead to behavior change. These design imperatives are not trends. They’re proven approaches that tap into …

This systematic literature review aims to identify the recent research trend, most studied factors, and methods used to predict student academic performance from 2015 to 2021.

https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/27685…

See how students answered this question: “What has been your best experience in the classroom, and what action or actions did a teacher take to help you make it happen (if they did)? Please be specific. What can other teachers …

The Extended Mind outlines the research behind this exciting new vision of human ability, exploring the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and examining the practices of educators, managers, and leaders who are already reaping the benefits of thinking outside …

Why you have to install some crappy piece of software to do tasks like file conversion, photo editing or for graphics designing, etc. when you have a web browser. Yes, you heard it right — “when you have a web …

In honor of Open Education Week (March 7-11, 2022), the Creative Commons Open Education Platform community offered Lightning Talks, or  seven-minute presentations on specific updates or stories in open education.

https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/11/open-education-week-2022-lightning-talks-recordings-and-slides/…

Earlier this semester, in one of my Culture anglaise et littérature classes, a student requested a quick one-on-one talk in the hallway during a break. As I followed them outside the classroom, I kept wondering how I had put my …

Here’s how to copy and paste without formatting, on both Windows and Mac, using several convenient methods.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-strip-formatting-copy-paste-text/…

The following is a transcript of BCcampus executive director Mary Burgess’s welcome address at our recent virtual event HyFlex ReAction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

https://bccampus.ca/2022/03/01/hyflex-its-about-equity-opportunity-and-inclusion/…