Tag: instructors
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When professors go wild! Cell phone edition
There seems to be an Web meme of capturing video of professors going crazy in live classes. Because more and more classes are video taped and posted online, more of these videos are surfacing. For your entertainment pleasure, and a holiday treat, I present a selection of my favorite professors going wild when cell phones…
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Future of the textbook
I saw an interesting presentation by the co-founders of Smarthistory.org, Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, sponsored by UMassOnline on October 1 (more, detailed info). Smarthistory.org is a project to create a Creative Commons based, online art history text book (Harris and Zucker are art history professors). You can watch the video of their presentation below.…
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A technique to encourage critical thinking in online disucssions
In online education the tool most often relied upon to encourage interaction among students and instructors is the discussion forum. Mostly asynchronous discussions. It can be an effective tool if instructors at the same time can encourage active learning — that is, learning by doing. If you’re interested in developing more critical thinking in your…
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Common elements of effective screencasts
People research the darndest things. I found this useful article published in the online journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, about common elements and instructional strategies of screencasts. Based on the screencasts of the three journal authors and other professional screencasts, a framework with two categories was developed: structural elements…
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Grabbing attention with the thematic and visual impact of words
Wordle is a tool that can help you visually demonstrate to your students what a passage of text is about, what the author was emphasizing in their writing.