Oct 30
The Center for Faculty Excellence & Innovation is happy to announce that Pearson has released an update to their Pearson LearningStudio Courses app and that it is ready for download and use on the campus of A&M-Commerce. Once you download the app, search for Texas A&M University-Commerce. You will then be asked to login using …
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Oct 08
An interesting analysis by Tracy Mitrano in a recent Insider Higher Ed article casts a focus on student privacy concerns regarding “big data” and a recent pledge formulated by the Future Privacy Forum. At the heart of the matter are concerns over what some corporations have done, intend to do, or (most important) have the …
Permanent link to this article: http://sites.tamuc.edu/innovations/student-privacy-pledge/
Sep 03
Campus Technology reported on a recent survey of college students’ technology textbook preferences. Nearly 60 percent of students buy their own books. The survey also indicated that while 40 percent of students surveyed had experience with an eBook, there were disparate levels of satisfaction with the technology. The percentages of students somewhat or very …
Permanent link to this article: http://sites.tamuc.edu/innovations/e-text-satisfactiondissatisfaction-among-students/
Feb 03
This article about researching styles of student note taking was a great read from Huffington Post. Personally, I think that it’s too early to call this definitive but the results are definitely interesting. My career as a student mostly entailed taking notes by hand versus on a laptop. It actually did help me retain information …
Permanent link to this article: http://sites.tamuc.edu/innovations/note-taking-typing-versus-writing/
May 31
Students increasingly expect a classroom experience that helps them develop knowledge for themselves, not just passively receive one-dimensional information.
Permanent link to this article: http://sites.tamuc.edu/innovations/white-paper-the-flipped-classroom/
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