Category: Resources
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mLearning in Higher Ed from Wollongong
It’s always good to find new free resources online, the latest for me is New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education (Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9 (online)).…
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JSB – Learning in the Digital Age
Teaching the ‘net generation – Brown looks at how pedagogy has moved (or has it?) from knowledge transfer to social models of learning that encourage and indeed rely on the participation and even play on the part of the students and move the instructor from the role of the ultimate authority to one of “content…
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Geek Competencies
Helen Haste, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education has identified five competencies that we should be teaching our students: Managing Ambiguity. “Managing ambiguity is that tension between rushing to the clear, the concrete, and managing this ambiguous fuzzy area in the middle. And managing ambiguity is something we have to teach. Because we have…
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Another WILB-like bit of research
First, we are told that there is a bit of research out there that says surfing at work helps people do better, taking that one step further, if we futz about with something while working toward a goal… that should help productivity even more, especially if we let our minds wander and start daydreaming. Well…
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Flu proofing your course
This afternoon I was tasked with coming up with a Faculty plan for dealing with the impending threat of flu. After much searching, I came up with the follow chunk of codified common sense: Planning Ahead Consider using eClass to store your course materials (or Moodle if you are teaching in Computing Science), use online…