Category: Pedagogy

Blended Learning Resources

The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation (CFEI) would like to highlight topical resources for faculty. This post’s focus is on Blended Learning, a hot topic for 2014. 1)    The CFEI held a Faculty Focus online seminar, 10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design in 2014 on 8/21/14 from 1:00-2:00pm at the CFEI Conference …

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New to Online Learning?

The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation (CFEI) offers a self-paced “Introduction to Online Learning” course to all faculty who are first-time users of the Pearson LearningStudio (eCollege) for online instruction. Click on the CFEI weblink, http://www.tamuc.edu/facultyStaffServices/centerForFacultyExcellenceAndInnovation/elearning/introductionToOnlineInstruction.aspx, for more information and to register for the course. Additionally, all faculty can access the self-paced eLearning course …

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10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design in 2014

The CFEI held a Faculty Focus online seminar, 10 Ways to Improve Blended Learning Course Design in 2014 on 8/21/14 from 1:00-2:00pm at the CFEI Conference Room (AGIT222). Faculty, it is not too late to participate! If you are interested in accessing the online resources for this past seminar, please register on the new CFEI …

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Sloan C Recap Session Resources

Thank you to the faculty who were able to attend the Sloan C Emerging Technologies Recap Session.  Below are the session resources, including PowerPoints and the session recording. Professor Tina Lancaster PowerPoint Recap Dr. Denise Pheils PowerPoint Recap Dr. Denise Pheils Conference Presentation Recap Session Recording (requires Flash)   There were a few articles referenced during …

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Textbook Publishers and Learning Management Systems: Do We Even Want Them to Get Along?

An article in The Chronicle posted last month online, “Textbook Publishers Push to Provide Full Learning Experience,” posed an interesting question about the future of online teaching and learning: how immersive do we truly want our technology systems to be? It is not a jump to say that, technologically, products which are designed to work …

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