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On this website (and through my podcast feed on iTunes), I will be posting many different kinds of material, mostly in the form of digital audio files. The heart of my work on this site is my extended, in-depth lecture series on Tolkien's major works, but I have also provided several methods through which we can enter into a more interactive conversation. All of my recorded material is completely free; I hope you have as much fun listening to them as I have making them!
The Tolkien Professor http://bit.ly/hAYqq5 #education #literature #Tolkien
RT @drgrist: Study: "American higher education is characterized by limited or no learning for a large proportion of students." http://bi ...
How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study? http://nyti.ms/hOTudP #universities #education #p2 #dsot
@maddow Here's a great story for your show, please dig into this: http://bit.ly/hKtgWT #education
The Edusim application is a slimmed down version of the core Open Cobalt Metaverse Project. Edusim is a 3D multi-user virtual world platform and authoring toolkit intended for your classroom interactive whiteboard (but equally powerful on the students laptop or desktop computers !). Cobalt - Edusim has been tested and works on the Smartboard, Activeboard, Interwriter, Polyvision, Mimio, eBeam, and even the Wiimote Whiteboard. Edusim is extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning session. Edusim as a concept seeks to model a new we to engage student through "immersive touch" by leveraging 3D virtual environments on the interactive surface or classroom interactive whiteboard.
Turn your classroom into an advanced visualization lab using your interactive whiteboard and Edusim !
Curriculum Development, Judith Howard, Department of Education, Elon University, Summer 2007 (.pdf)
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
While teaching techniques in general are applicable to both undergraduate and graduate courses, there are some differences, especially considering the age, motivation, and knowledge of the students. In addition, graduate education varies more widely from discipline to discipline than does undergraduate education.
Involving undergraduates in research can take two forms: including students in faculty labs/research projects and including substantive research projects in courses. In this section we provide information on both kinds, but would like to stress the benefits, to students and faculty, of developing good research assignments in classes. Such assignments promote active learning and deeper engagement with the material.
Does the content tyrant rule your classroom? If you say, "I can't do that; I have to cover the content," every time a colleague offers a suggestion about how to improve your teaching, there's a good chance it does.
Gleason, M. "Better Communication in Large Courses," *College Teaching* 1986, 341., 20-24.
Helpful questions for use in improving your course syllabus: Components of a Syllabus, Research Assignments, and General Questions
The Comprehensive Syllabus (.pdf)
Different ways of designing an innovative academic course (.pdf)
General Strategies for structuring, designing or revising an academic course.
Successful study group tips in .pdf format for easy printing for hand-outs.
Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, developed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom of the University of Chicago, provides three categories of objectives: affective, psychomotor, and cognitive. For this newsletter, we'll just focus on the cognitive. The importance of the taxonomy for teachers is that it can serve to remind us of what we're asking students to do and why. In the cognitive "domain," Bloom arranges the objectives in increasing complexity, from "simple" knowledge or remembering through evaluation. The kinds of words we use in assignments often signal the level of complexity that we're asking of our students. Although it seems reductionist, this is one of the great lessons of Bloom.
A new look at educational philosophy where self initiation, democracy, social interaction, self actualization and freedom become the focus.
AERO's goal is to advance student-driven, learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world. Education Alternatives include, but are not limited to, Montessori, Waldorf (Steiner), Public Choice and At-Risk, Democratic, Homeschool, Open, Charter, Free, Sudbury, Holistic, Virtual, Magnet, Early Childhood, Reggio Emilia, Indigo, Krishnamurti, Quaker, Libertarian, Independent, Progressive, Community, Cooperative, and Unschooling. One of AERO's areas of expertise is democratic process and democratic education, but equally important is the networking of all forms of educational alternatives. It is through our work and mission that we hope to create an education revolution.
27 items | 9 visits
Links for educators, teachers.
Updated on Feb 07, 15
Created on Dec 17, 10
Category: Schools & Education
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