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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Open Academics at the University of Minnesota
The Richardsonian Romanesque Pillsbury Hall (1889) is one of the oldest buildings on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis campus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I was really excited this morning to see Stacy Olson’s tweet (@OlsonStacy) about the University of Minnesota’s Open … Continue reading
Posted in OER, Open educational resources, opentextbooks, Textbook, textbooks
Tagged OlsonStacy, stacy olson, university of minnesota
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MOOCs and Connectivist Instructional Design
I am very interested in the instructional design of MOOCs. While I was working at Tacoma Community College, I co-taught a course called “Health Information Management 101.” The purpose of the course was to introduce health information management students to … Continue reading
Posted in connectivism, ds106, education, Instructional Design, MOOC, twitter
Tagged Second Life, Stephen Downes, Tacoma Community College
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16 Resources for Free Images for Educators
Abraham Lincoln with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John Alexander McClernand at the Battle of Antietam. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The search for quality images continues… We have faculty who are creating course materials and in some cases, replacing Fair Use … Continue reading
Effective Online Teaching Techniques
These are the slides and some resources from my workshop on “Effective Online Teaching Techniques.” It relies heavily on Chickering and Gamson because I like to emphasize that the same principles that make face-to-face teaching effective are the same principles … Continue reading
Posted in distancelearning, education, elearning, teachingtips
Tagged online teaching
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Promoting an Open Culture with Open Access Week
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Open Access Week is upon us and this is a very important part of the OER equation. Quality OER is going to have to start with quality open research. There are so many concerns outside of the … Continue reading
Posted in OER, open educuation resources
Tagged oaweek, Open access, Open Access Week, openaccessweek
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Closing Open Ed with State Authorization Rules
State seal of Minnesota (Wikipedia) The Chronicle of Higher Ed reported on Minnestota’s state authorization rules for distance ed that we in the California Community College’s Distance Education Coordinator’s group have been wrestling with as well. The state of Minnesota … Continue reading
From Abelard to Apple with Richard DeMillo
Richard DeMillo (Wikipedia) Today’s presentation in our MOOC, “The Current and Future State of Higher Education” featured Rich DeMillo, according to his introduction, he is “a Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the seventh ranked public … Continue reading
Beyond MOOC Hyperbole with Siva Vaidhyanathan
These are my notes on “Beyond MOOC Hyperbole: Why We Should Support MOOC Experimentation…Critically and Carefully.” This was a presentation hosted by Dave Cormier and presented by Siva Vaidhyanathan for our MOOC “The Current and Future State of Higher Education … Continue reading
Podcasting and the Attention Curve
We were working with one of our brilliant faculty here at College of the Redwoods, Pamela Netzow, who is creating an audio annotation and guide to a very complex accounting textbook. She came in for a meeting today and the … Continue reading
Posted in education, interactivity, mlearning
Tagged Podcast, podcasting, studentengagement
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