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What is the ideal school system?
How can we measure what makes a school system work? In the following TED video Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another — then...
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Teaching and Learning Tools: February 2013
The following are a few tools that I tested and in some cases got lost in over the past month. I hope that you find a few of them useful. iPad Apps/ Resources Voice Dream Reader ( $4.99) – Text to...
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Cool eBook/iBook Author tool set
Bookry a complimentary cloud-based service for iBooks Author and eBook development provides and great series of interactive widgets that require no knowledge of coding to integrate into digital book...
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Has education come full circle?
Education started with the Socratic process then morphed into the standard lectures and in the last decade migrated from “student based learning: to “active learning”. In this decade higher education...
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There is a Time and Place for Everything…
“We can’t shape what we don’t understand, and what we don’t understand and use ends up shaping us.” ~ Catarina Mota I always need to take a deep sigh when working with some newly minted Instructional...
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Online Courses or MOOCs: A Faculty Perspective
Faculty are teaching more on-campus courses with online components. They’re exploring new ways of packaging online content for different audiences with varied needs. And they’re asking the big...
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The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! by Robert Darnton | The New...
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! by Robert Darnton | The New York Review of Books. Great resource of online educational offerings. Filed under: eBooks, Instructional Technology,...
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Creating Information Graphic
Infographics use visual symbols to communicate and summarize complex information at a glance. They tell the story hidden in the data. They can compare multiple variables in a single graphic by using...
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Futurelearn plans Moocs for mobiles | News | Times Higher Education
Futurelearn plans Moocs for mobiles | News | Times Higher Education. Filed under: Distance Education, Instructional Technology Tagged: Colleges and Universities, education, Educators, higher...
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Updated ID Resource Site
I have not been posting much on this blog recently because posting time has been used to upgrade my Instructional Design website and revamp the content. The site contains a number of tools and...
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Improving Student Feedback
There are several informal strategies for getting feedback so that the students who give it will benefit from it. Whatever format you choose, ask your students to be specific. ‘This course is the best...
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Designing Blended Courses the ADDIE Way
Designing Blended Courses the ADDIE Way . Filed under: Instructional Design
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