Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2013 No Comments »
Using Analytics to Examine Course Design and Identify Effective Practices Karin Readel, Director of Instructional Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County readel@umbc.edu Their public BB reports: http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/blackboard/stats/ They wanted to know about the impact of their faculty training. About their training program: * Alternate Delivery Program (ADP) * for moving from f2f to online/hybrid * [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2013 No Comments »
Learning Sciences and Learning Analytics: Time for a Marriage – Sponsored by Starin Roy Pea: http://www.stanford.edu/~roypea/index.html David Jacks Professor of Education and the Learning Sciences Informed by Learning Sciences: Bransford, “The Cambrigde Handbook of Learning Sciences” Learning science in informal environments, Science magazine Journal of Learning Sciences (+ another journal) Int’ society of learning sciences: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2013 No Comments »
For the first time that I’m aware of, we are participating in ELI online as a team (paid for one registration, invited faculty to join us, which the organizers encourage) & so far, it’s going well. Very impressive to see the investment in the effort to deliver a whole conference online. Hashtag: #eli2013. Key takeaways [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2013 No Comments »
Great talk, great quotes, I love the vision (though perhaps overstated at times, you might say). If you have thoughts, leave a comment below…
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2013 No Comments »
I registered for 2 more Moocs I’m sure I won’t keep up with, but it’s interesting to see how they are organized & if I don’t at least post them here, I probably won’t ever even find them again, so here there are: Learning Design For 21st Century Curriculum (OLDS Mooc): http://www.olds.ac.uk/the-course Intro to Databases: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
Happy to be spending the day at a “Flipping the classroom” Nercomp SIG today. Especially happy to see two of my faculty colleagues here & a full session – maybe 100 people. I have the attendee list in email, but don’t want to violate everyone’s privacy by posting it here. Very interesting group of folks. [...]
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