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21st Century Credentials: Telling the Story of the Whole Student
Published by: WCET | 6/23/2016
Earlier this month WCET’ers gathered in Salt Lake City to have frank discussions and hear from leading experts in the somewhat nebulous construct of 21st Century Credentials. There is no way I can replicate the conversations held, the discussions, the […]
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A Conversation About Today’s Classroom (Three Students, Three Modalities)
Published by: WCET | 5/5/2016
We called for help in getting the voice of students into our blog posts. I want to thank Holly Jean Greene (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) for preparing this video for us with real, live students sharing their experiences. Thank you! […]
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What I Learned About Adapting Content – Working with Vendors & Publishers
Published by: WCET | 4/13/2016
So you have decided you want to adapt a course and you are just beginning to learn more about the process and work involved. In this blog post, I will share my personal experience of working through the adaptive process, […]
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Stepping-up Now: Researching Social Media
Published by: WCET | 4/6/2016
In an era when undergraduate students emerge digitally engaged, the progressive graduate educator is one who is open to adapt and adjust the delivery of their teaching, assignments, and interactions to incorporate innovative technology. Faculty face both implicit and explicit […]
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Bringing Joy to Technology Design
Published by: WCET | 3/31/2016
We welcome Alexis Hope, MIT Media Lab, as today’s guest blogger, as she gives us a peek at a new publishing platform that incorporates many types of multimedia into your text copy. Alexis and a panel of MIT Media Lab […]
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Instructional Designers: Instead of Saying “No” to Faculty, Let’s Say “Yes”
Published by: WCET | 3/24/2016
Instructional design has a problem. I noticed it last summer when I was doing the conference circuit. We have run out of things to say. Keynotes, which are supposed to rally the troops and get us fired up for the day, offer […]
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Benefits of Preparing Faculty to Teach Online Go Beyond the Online Classroom
Published by: WCET | 3/17/2016
Today we welcome Kathy Keairns, Director of Web-Based Learning in the Office of Teaching & Learning at the University of Denver, to the Frontiers blog. Kathy has been involved in faculty development and online education for over 15 years and is a […]
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Edtech is a Human Experience: My First SXSWedu
Published by: WCET | 3/14/2016
Sometimes you have to start at the end to see the beginning more clearly. On my {somewhat delayed} journey home from SXSWedu, our Mike Abbiatti posed the question, “if technology is all it’s cracked up to be, why do we spend so […]
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Teaching the Whys of Where: Enhancing Understanding Through Geography
Published by: WCET | 3/1/2016
Thank you to Allison Friederichs (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Assistant Teaching Professor, University College University of Denver) for recommending an innovative adjunct faculty member for today’s guest blog post. I think you will enjoy learning from Joseph Kerski. Thank you Joseph […]
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What Colleges Should Be Doing with Open Educational Resources, At Scale!
Published by: WCET | 2/26/2016
Today we’re honored to welcome TJ Bliss, Program Officer, Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to share with us the learning the Foundation has garnered in over 15 years of supporting open educational resource projects. Thank you, TJ […]