Teaching History in the Digital Age, by Mills Kelly
Mills Kelly and his new book, Teaching History in the Digital Age, guide this article’s recommendations and thoughts about using scholarship on teaching and learning to aid learners in their efforts to understand history.
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The proposal includes a push toward innovation in online learning, as well as institutional ratings.
You don’t need to know how to draw to make engaging comic strips—with Bitstrips.
There are lots of choices when it comes to technology. As much as things change, one thing remains the same: the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.
“Louisiana Tech University will pay a student a total of $23,543 in damages and make its Web sites and course materials more accessible in order to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.”
Lloyd says: This is a good reminder that designing courses to be accessible from the get go isn’t just the smart and right thing to do, it’s also the law.
Lloyd will present “How to Create Kahn Academy-Like Videos with a Graphics Tablet + Camtasia” on Thursday (July 11, 2013) at 1 pm in room 626 Aderhold. This is the last of the ITT summer seminar series that mirrors the design and development work Lloyd is doing for his first MOOC entitled “Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals.”
In “We’re All to Blame for MOOCs,” Patrick J. Deneen proposes a transformation away from global universities and toward identity-driven colleges as a defense against the coming shakeup from novel forms of online education.
Note from Lloyd: I thought this was an important quote:
“As has been widely discussed, most MOOCs reiterate the ancient form of the lecture, and do not signal much of a leap in pedagogy. (As McLuhan noted, the contents of the new medium are the old media, at least at first.) The effect of MOOCs on the academy, though, is no more likely to be about pedagogy than the effect of MP3s on the music industry was about audio quality. The adoption of nontraditional forms of education hinges on accessibility, flexibility, and cost—not quality.”
Lloyd will present “How to Create Narrated PowerPoints with Camtasia + Creating Captions for Videos” today (July 2, 2013) at 1 pm in room 626 Aderhold. This is part of the ITT summer seminar series that mirrors the design and development work Lloyd is doing for his first MOOC entitled “Statistics in Education for Mere Mortals.”
Lloyd Rieber and Ron Braxley will demonstrate how to create a personalized “Welcome Video” as a way to have your online students get to know you better. This is a very good technique to begin to establish “instructor presence” in an online class. The session will be held today (June 27, 2013) at 1 pm in room 626 Aderhold. (Pizza will be provided! So, let us know if you are coming.)
Lloyd will present “Anatomy of a MOOC” today (June 20, 2013) at 1 pm in room 626 Aderhold. (Pizza will be provided!)