7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Aug, 2010
The folks at Educause have put together a new “7 Things” guide, covering 7 Things You Should Know About Assessing Online Team-Based Learning. As usual, the quick reference source answers the following questions:

 

  1. What is it?
  2. How does it work?
  3. Who’s doing it?
  4. Why is it significant?
  5. What are the downsides?
  6. Where is it going?
  7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?

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A Framework for Teaching with Twitter By Mark Sample

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Aug, 2010
Faculty are increasingly experimenting with social media, and it's exciting to find more and more courses incorporating Twitter, a ProfHacker favorite. Just last week on ProfHacker Ryan provided an excellent introduction to Twitter, while earlier in the summer Brian reflected on his use of Twitter in the classroom during Spring 2010. As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter.

I'll address my own pedagogical use of Twitter in a future ProfHacker post, but for today I want to share a general framework for Twitter adoption in the classroom, originally sketched out in late August 2009 by Rick Reo. Rick is an instructional designer at George Mason University, and he'd been keeping tabs on the different ways instructors were using Twitter in their teaching. Rick sent a draft of this adoption matrix to the university's Teaching with Technology listserv, and I soon began trying to situate my own Twitter use on the chart...[more]

From: Chronicle of Higher Education ProfHacker blog

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