May 02
The Faculty Center was proud to sponsor Tina Lancaster and Denise Pheils to attend the 7th Annual Sloan C Emerging Technologies for Online Learning in April. The conference included attendees from across higher education, including faculty, instructional designers, educational technologists, and administrators. On May 8th, there will be an focus session open to faculty where Professors …
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Apr 22
At some point, Google stopped being just a search engine and became… Well… A compendium of useful technology services you never knew you needed, but can’ live without. From Gmail, to YouTube, to Webmaster Tools and all points in between, Google has a vast, and sometimes nebulous, offering of services, resources and applications to help …
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Apr 09
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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Mar 31
A challenging aspect of online classes is the isolated sense that students can sometimes feel, somewhat disconnected from their instructor and even fellow classmates. Instructors continually discover innovative ways to build student community in their online courses. From encouraging online study groups via social media tools, to interacting via the online “Student Lounge” in the LMS, there …
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Feb 24
At the Faculty Center, we often get a lot of questions from faculty about how to best record their lectures for online classes. This is a common inquiry with only one answer, CAMTASIA. Camtasia offers professors the opportunity to be able to deliver their content to off-site students, re-use their lecture videos each semester, & …
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