Why Note-taking

The value of note-taking has to be more clear for students. Teachers can help students realize that taking better notes can help them improve learning. Maryellen Weimer, PhD has the insides for Tips for Developing Students' Note-taking Skills.

Essentials of a Good eLearning Course

Everyone has a different taste in how to make that online class more appealing, inviting, and effective. In this article Karla Gutierrez lists six eLearning must-haves.

Learning Styles

Categorizing learning styles.

Blended Learning Infographic

Driving and Investigative Questions

Problem base learning creates a new dimension in education. In this article Mike Gorman from 21st Century Educational Technology and Learning talks about the idea of "Driving and Investigative Questions" and how these concepts take part in real inquire and research. He also place the two actions, driving and investigating, among verbs in the higher order thinking area of Bloom's Taxonomy. According to Gorman, by facilitating PBL and inquiry students come together to create productive discussions, and converge ideas. Gorman also advises teacher how to create the "questions" and provides samples. Read the Part1:Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom ... Driving and Investigative Questions".

Video in Education

The State of Video in Education from Kaltura.com

Ted Ed

You can create a lesson around any of the Ted-Ed original videos. You can also submit your content to Ted-Ed and request the help of an animator to bring your information alive. Visit Ted-Ed and explore the possibilities. 

Ted-Ed are licensed for distribution under CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International

Give PP Slides vs. Asking students to Take Notes

Having good note-taking skills will help students with their listening skills, information processing, understanding, studying, and test taking. Teachers can help students take good notes by identifying key concepts, asking students to retrieve information from previous notes or to summarize information at the beginning of class, they can also ask students to refer to the notes from test questions that were missed by multiple people. Read Maryellen Weimer's article Tips for Developing Students' Note-taking Skills. 

Protecting Our Students Rights

In his article and accompanying video Sherry Zane, PhD give best practices to create an inclusive respectful environment in the classroom and online. Read all about it in Supporting Transgender Students in the Classroom.

Highly Desirable eLearning Elements

Karla Gutierrez from shiftlearning.com/blog talks about the most important areas in a eLearning course. She mentions intro, responsiveness, visual design, navigation, multiple learning channels and practice and feedback. Read all about it in The Six Must-Haves for Every eLearning Course. 

Responsive eLearning

Students are using multiple devices to access and interact with courses, therefore it is imperative that the devices rearrange, resize, and make the content react the way it suppose to. Responsive eLearning is being developed to facilitate the actions required to complete tasks without interruptions, lost of time, or disappointing malfunction. 

In her article "Why Responsive eLearning is Essential to Meet Modern Learner Needs", Karla Gutierrez discuses the characteristics and usability of Responsible eLearning, and strategies decisions to be made. 

Learner Centered Syllabus

Participation in the learning experience is the focus of learner centered education. Engaging students starting early in the semester results in a better success rate for your class. In this article Mary Bart describes how to create a learner-centered syllabus that will help set the tone for learning.

Augmented Reality in Geography

Greg Beringer and his interactive sandbox photographed by CSUF news

Debuting this fall there is a new augmented reality tool for students to experiment in the department of Geography. 

Read all about it in the 3D Geography article by CSUF news services.

AR, VR, and Wearables

In this slide show by Shelly Sanchez Terrell, she illustrates the different devices, and their purposes, and provide tips on how to use the apps.

Amazoninspire in Beta

EdWeek Market Brief reports that Amazon is developing an new platform called Amazoninspire to help teachers upload, manage, find, and share OER.

Open Educational Resources

Open Textbooks and Increased Student Access and Outcomes

Promoting Project Base Learning

Here are 20 ideas and resources promoting 21st century skills through project based learning

The Higher Cost of Textbooks

This infographic illustrate the trend of textbooks prices, the reason for prices to be so high, and alternative options.


Via: OnlineEducation.net

Project Base Learning

In this article Michael Gorman offers ideas to assure learning is grounded in content and standards. 

Grading

Effective ways to communicate reason for assigning a grade.

Moving Beyond Traditional Q & A in the Classroom

5 Easy Ways to Move Beyond Traditional Q & A in the Classroom | Tech Learning

Improving Evaluation Responses

Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D. recommend strategies to encourage students to fill up evaluations online. Read the article. 

Your Brain and Animation

from Peter Pearson Animation CC 

3 Reasons Why Your Brain Loves Animation for Learning

Getting in charge of the Computerized Classroom

5 Ways for Teachers to Take Back the Computerized Classroom

Current Trends in ELearning

In this article Justin Ferriman from LeanDash lists today's most popular eLending trends.

Increasing the Interest in a Subject Matter

Picture by Xusenru, CC0

To know what causes lack of interest in the classroom will help find ways to grow student curiosity for a learning topic. Read all about it in this article by Kelly Walsh, Top 10 Ways to Increase your Students' Interest in a Subject. 

The Online Course

If you have doubts regarding online classes this article will help you decide if you should create one.

Stepping out your Comfort Zone?

Remembering What You Learn

It is not only about learning, you still have to remember what you learn. In this article Karla Gutierrez from SHIFT's eLearning shares The 4 Best Tricks to Help Learners Remember Your Content.

Micro-Credentials

Picture by Yukiko Otsu

Creating bite-size low-cost learning opportunities for students. A project from the University Learning Store.

Motivating Unprepared Students

Created by Libby Levi for opensource.com

In this article Barbi Honycutt, PHD presents five ways to motivate unprepared students in the flipped classroom.

Are Grades Becoming Obsolete?

To Grade or not to Grade? Exploring the Great Grading Controversy

Snapchat To Engage Students

Michael Britt professor at Marist College in upstate New York uses Snaptchat videos to push a little knowledge when his students' are not in class. Read the article.

Active Learning

In her article "Active Learning: In Need of Deeper Exploration" Maryellen Weimer, PhD raises the need to explore more thoroughly the variety of activities that fall into this type of learning, the strategies used to promote it, and the techniques that measure its impact. Her objective is to give a more accurate specific understanding of what Active Learning really means.

Bringing Virtual Reality into the Classroom

5 Steps to Get Started With Google Cardboard VR Viewer in Your Classroom

Envision, the UC Davis Game

UC Davis Uses Online Game to Crowdsource Its Future

Technology and Multiple Intelligences

Exploring How Technology Caters to Your Students’ 8 “Multiple Intelligences”

Review your Course

Making sure your course is interesting. Avoid these 5 Ways ELearning Can Annoy People

Gamification

Introducing a Game-Based Curriculum in Higher Ed

Gamification graphic from Mr. Herbert

John B. King, Jr. may become the new Secretary of Education

President Obama Announces His Intent to Nominate John B. King as Secretary of Education

John B. King and President Obama

Changing Landscape of Distance Ed

Online Learning Report Takes Snapshot of Student Enrollments

eLearning Trends for 2016

eLearning Trends for 2016 – Players in the Realm

Online Survival Tools for PhD Thesis Writing

Online Survival Tools for PhD Thesis Writing

mLearning

How mLearning is Revolutionizing the Learning Landscape

SoTL

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

How to Spark Collaboration in the Classroom

7 Ways to Spark Collaboration in your Classroom

The Social Age Connection

How to Connect with Other Teachers in the Social Age

Students as Customers

Students are not customers; Are they?

Adding a Human Element to Online Learning

Adding a Human Element to Online Learning

How to Start with Mobile Learning

Mobile Learning

Eliminating Tests Through Continual Assessment

Eliminating Tests Through Continual Assessment

How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?

Global Citizenship

Student Online Readiness Resources Available in TITANium or Online

The Department of Online Education and Training (OET) at Cal State Fullerton has assembled a set of interactive tutorials and tools accessible individually or as a combined set to prepare students for their first experience with online learning. Even though they may be savvy users of smartphones and other technologies, students may not be ready for college level learning in an online environment.  

The Student Online Readiness Resources are found on the OET’s website. These resources are offered in a TITANium (Learning Management System used by CSUF) module, and may be imported into an existing course. 

Instructions on how to add the Student Online Readiness Module can be found in the TITANium Resource Center.

The tutorials use engaging activities and are Open Educational Resources (OER) designed to help prepare students for successful online learning. Some of the multimedia tutorials focus on skill development for new online student, others identify strategies and resources to further assist experienced online learners.

Game-Based Learning and Gamification - e-Learning Feeds

Game-Based Learning and Gamification - e-Learning Feeds

Eliminating Tests Through Continual Assessment

Eliminating Tests Through Continual Assessment

The YouTube Guide to Self-Directed Learning

The YouTube Guide to Self-Directed Learning

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: 5 Tips for Education Blogging: #EdCampNYC Takeaway...

5 Tips for Education Blogging

US Department of Health and Human Services HHS Section 508 Accessibility checklists

Official US Department of Health and Human Services HHS Section 508 Accessibility checklists

How Hashtags Can Empower You in 2016 | Tech Learning

How Hashtags Can Empower You in 2016 | Tech Learning

The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester Opportunity

The First Day of Class: A Once-a-Semester Opportunity

A Dozen Favorite Plugged-In Technology and Education Experts on Twitter

A Dozen Favorite Plugged-In Technology and Education Experts on Twitter

Universal Design for Learning UDL in Higher Education

Flipping Feedback: Screencasting Feedback on Student Essays

Flipping Feedback: Screencasting Feedback on Student Essays

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Classroom Technology News | Educational Apps | Bloom's Taxonomy | techlearning.com Author Section