Oct 12
SAMR is changing the way instructors are creating their instruction to increase student engagement. SAMR is the acronym for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. Substitution allows you to accomplish the goal with no real functional change in what the students were assigned to do without technology. An example of this would be if you asked …
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Oct 05
Social media is often brought up as the solution to disengaged students, but suggestions rarely go deeper than “Use Twitter” or “Create a Facebook page.” Simply requiring students to use social media for their class work isn’t enough to create connections – but borrowing an old assignment and giving it a new face might do …
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Sep 13
To SAMR & Beyond: Integration of Technology into Classroom Presenter: Brett Murrey, M.Ed. Date: September 14, 2016, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Location: CFEI Conference Room, Gee Library Suite 173 Description: This is the model being used to integrate technology into the classrooms across the country. QEP Global Learning event! To register for this event, go …
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Jun 29
A variety of student success systems promise to be the missing link in our classrooms both face to face and online. As the Chronicle article “Companies Promise ‘Personalized Education’” describes, many different software systems offer what they describe as the way to ensure student success – mostly through a combination of predictive analytics, somewhat intrusive …
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Sep 13
Coming Soon: OLC Innovate 2016 presentations
September 13, 2016
Dear Faculty, In the spring, the CFEI sponsored two faculty members to attend the OLC Innovate 2016 conference in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Nathan Templeton and Dr. Monica Tenhunen returned eager to share their resources with you. Don’t miss their presentations! Additionally, the CFEI will show streamed conference sessions in the fall and spring. …
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