The semester is winding down and holiday break is just around the corner. I'm sure your plane ticket to Hawaii is booked and your bags are packed. But before you go, make sure you have squared away all your campus business. To assist you, I...
Reliable copyright resources, particularly in education, have traditionally been difficult to find. It is also a subject to which I am least comfortable with when assisting faculty. I think I find copyright challenging because the laws aren’t cut and dry and they seem to frequently change....
Recently, I have had reflective thoughts about my life and my decision to work and teach in higher education. At first, I was not sure why, but quickly attributed these “deep thoughts” to my first fore into fatherhood. Watching my son experience and react to...
This post is part two of my blog series: Using Twitter to Teach. I have pondered for the past week or so how I would approach this series moving forward. Given that the title suggests that I am going to discuss teaching with twitter, I certainly...
At the Educause conference last week, I attended several excellent sessions on teaching and learning. Some of the topics included social media in the classroom, a debate of whether or not technology makes us less intelligent, second life at a small university, and other similar...
An emerging trend in higher education is the use of social media for student communication and teaching. I call it “emerging” because according to a recent study conducted by Pearson, only 31% of faculty use social networking to communicate with students although over 80% of...
Hi folks! I’m writing today to describe a scenario specific to online instruction and to gather some input from you as to possible strategies and solutions for helping address the issue. I met with an online instructor over the summer who ran into an issue in...
This year, a group of education researchers from Memorial University in Canada released a qualitative study titled Students’ Perceptions of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, where they asked students to “isolate the characteristics they believe are essential to effective teaching” for both face-to-face and online...
[caption id="attachment_454" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Creative Commons"][/caption] In January, Educause Learning Initiative released their annual Horizon Report. It identified six areas of emerging technologies likely to impact teaching and learning in higher education over the next several years (For more information, view our 2010 Horizon Report blog...
Happy Summer Everyone! I had the pleasure of presenting at the Texas Wesleyan University Title III Summer Institute a few days ago on Good Advice for Prospective Online Students and I just want to share the resources I collected for the presentation. You may find...