Are YOU a Mac or PC? Considerations for teaching online

The article, Managing Macs & PCs in online courses, gives good considerations for online educational technology support across the two computer operating systems. The article also provides an additional resource on useful cross-platform technology tools, http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/making-games-for-web-and-ios-with-stencyl/61204. Learn more about it!   Managing Macs & PCs in online courses http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/managing-macs-pcs-in-online-courses/61219?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en&elq=a8fd5eef33f64a20acd5b28e96fa48ea&elqCampaignId=1698&elqaid=6689&elqat=1&elqTrackId=2d8d77356240434c9a913e8f3e10e78c

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CFEI shares Teaching Tip

As a joint effort, faculty centers across the country choose to participate in the yearly contribution to the Teaching Issues Writing Consortium. This year, CFEI staff contributed a teaching tip, Student Learning by Doing, page 44. Check it out. 2015-2016 Teaching Issues Writing Consortium Teaching Tips https://tamuc.equella.ecollege.com/file/e4974587-baa2-428e-957c-bb025263ef06/1/2015-2016_TWC_TeachingTips.pdf

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Pearson LearningStudio Notifications

Until this release, users had to login to LearningStudio to check the status of their activities. Now students can be alerted to course activities via text or on their mobile phone or up to two email addresses. Based on their preferences, students can automatically receive a push notification with every new course announcement, threaded discussion …

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NEW Writer’s Retreat scholarship program

Writer's Retreat

Dear Faculty, Do you feel like you need more time to focus on your scholarly work? The Writer’s Retreat at the CFEI is intended to provide you with a designated space and time for you to write. You can focus in the CFEI Faculty Fellows & Scholars Lab without your regular distractions and with the …

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Emerging Tech Cafe- Digital Literacy and the First Brew

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Our Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation recently held its grand opening.  Among the events was our first Emerging Tech Cafe.  This was a round table discussion with faculty regarding trends and emerging educational technology that they are either using, or interested in using. As guide posts for our discussion, we referenced the 2015 NMC Horizon …

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