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Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter in the classroom.
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Learning is evolving, but we must look back even as we look forward, exploring the many potentials of online classrooms, while also recognizing how learning in digital space is and always will be informed by what we do in physical classrooms.
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a peer grading technology” where students are trained to grade each others’ work according to the professor’s specifications.
Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have teamed up with a for-profit company to offer free versions of their coveted courses this year to online audiences. By doing so, they join a growing group of top-tier universities that are embracing massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as the logical extension of elite higher education in an increasingly online, global landscape.
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a growing group of top-tier universities that are embracing massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as the logical extension of elite higher education in an increasingly online, global landscape.
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with little or no emphasis on making profit or even breaking even
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A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. It is a gathering of participants, of people willing to jointly exchange information and collaboratively enhance their knowledge.
Connectivism:
Learning Theory or Pastime for the Self-Amused?
I believe we should do what we can as teachers of writing to keep the ups and downs of teaching and learning with tech in critical tension. Let’s try to be careful not to get too high or too low on tech, and with luck our colleagues and students will appreciate our sober points of view.
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most students take to writing with technology quite well, and those who do not usually benefit from the practice and explicit instruction
Published in Critical Theories in Education, Thomas S. Popkewitz and Lynn Fendler, eds. (NY: Routledge, 1999).
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