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Spotlight on Innovation: Attacking High Text Costs While Improving Outcomes

Spotlight On Innovation: Attacking High Text Costs While Improving Outcomes Date: Monday, April 11th, 2011Time: 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm PTDuration: 50 minutes followed by a live Q&A session As the high cost of college texts negatively impacts student … Continue reading

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OER University: history in the making

Image via Wikipedia I am in an exciting meeting today on the OER university. There were a few dozen participating in New Zealand and 47 virtual participants. If you are not familiar with this concept OERs are “open education resources.” … Continue reading

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The Instructional Designer’s Toolkit

Image via WikipediaI have watched instructional designers from top-notch universities loaded down with the latest theories completely flounder when faced with the realities of the work. With instructional designers, I look for two things: a portfolio and any teaching/tutoring experience. … Continue reading

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Teaching Basic Physiology and Anatomy Lab Courses Using Sakai

Image via Wikipedia This is a presentation by Joan Esterline Lafuze who is a professor of biology at Indiana University East. I am particularly interested in this session because teaching online labs seems to be such an issue for so … Continue reading

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Applying Universal Design to Large Classrooms

Image via Wikipedia In another session at the Humboldt State University’s Institute for Diversity in Learning & Teaching, Dr. Janye McGuire gave a very useful and informative presentation called “Applying Universal Design for Learning in Large Classrooms.” I was immediately … Continue reading

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