Academy for Teaching and Learning Excellence: October 2012

Monday, October 29, 2012

Here's our digest of some of today's hottest teaching & learning links from the Twitterverse:

How do you stop online students cheating? http://bbc.in/U8zE8M
Enabling Students Through Online Collaboration: http://bit.ly/dEFH97
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward
Is Content Curation in Your Skill Set? It Should Be. by David Kelly http://ow.ly/2sUZdy
Improve Online Learning Student Engagement with Learning Analytics http://ow.ly/2sUTQN
6 Steps to Effective Paraphrasing from Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab) http://ow.ly/ePMH3
8 ways blog writing is unique via @markwschaefer http://ow.ly/ePNaW
Going Back to the Roots of Great Learning #30GoalsEdu http://goo.gl/Jjvpo
The 6 Hottest Teaching and Online Learning Trends (And How Teachers Are Adopting Them) http://ow.ly/2sUK1k
How The iPad Is Being Used For Mobile Learning http://edudemic.com/2012/10/ipad-mobile-learning/ …

Here's our digest of some of today's hottest teaching & learning links from the Twitterverse:

10 Apps for Documenting Learning http://zite.to/TBQEUw
Google's Open Course Builder: A Giant Leap into 21st Century Online Learning http://ow.ly/2sNwgk
What if college replaced grades with Foursquare-esque badges? http://ow.ly/eCU21
Dropbox Giving Away 3GB Free To Anyone With .edu Address http://ow.ly/eA39s
Learning Design: Social Media in the Classroom http://ow.ly/eE4F6
New 10 Myths About Online Learning (and Truths About Each Myth ... http://ow.ly/2sNbDH
The 4 Most Popular Reasons For Taking An Online Class http://bit.ly/WVO1C6
Minnesota Did NOT Kick Coursera Out Of The State http://ow.ly/eDzkP --or did they?
3 Essential Dropbox Sharing Tips That You May Not Know via @lifehackorg http://ow.ly/eDQtw
Can Gamification Increase Student Productivity? http://bit.ly/WU8nM4

Here's our digest of some of today's hottest teaching & learning links from the Twitterverse:

Blogs in Education http://goo.gl/xNi0c Resources for blogging in the classroom
"MOOCs, Showrooming, and Higher Ed" #moocs #highered http://bit.ly/PcIUNw
Overall enrollment steady in 2012; online learning continues growth http://ow.ly/2sKgaU
Evernote For Blogs: Remember Everything. http://shar.es/c3LYu by @Alexisntonfire via @SocialMediaDel
An Online University Reinvents What Learning Can Be http://trib.al/9a3OU4
Excellent summary:The 21st Century Learning and Teaching Skills You should not Miss http://zite.to/OKtvCo via @medkh9
Where The iPad Fails In Comparison To A Normal Computer http://zite.to/U6Lbut

Here's our digest of some of today's hottest teaching & learning links from the Twitterverse:

Curating content in an Interactive World http://ow.ly/exxTh
How to create a ‘community of learning’ online http://ow.ly/exDqG via @jj27vv
Great Collection Of Creative Commons Resources: http://bit.ly/WwxmVn
PBL? Am I Doing it Right? http://ow.ly/exvcv via @PLPNetwork
U. of Texas System Is Latest to Sign Up With edX for Online Courses http://ow.ly/2sIAIi
Florida to Become Statewide BYOD Model? via @educationweek http://ow.ly/ex4wI
Service learning projects build confidence, ownership - Kathleen Forsyth bounced a pink plastic ball. She stood in ... http://ow.ly/2sIp6z
Make Your LMS Learner-Driven by Jason Clymer http://ow.ly/2sIuM1
Excellent Idea of the Day: Cheap Classroom Polls http://goo.gl/49tSJ
10 Tips For Personal Learning Networks: http://bit.ly/xDPxBq
Top 25 Mobile Apps in Academia to #mLearning http://vsb.li/oPNjCf

Here's our digest of some of today's hottest teaching & learning links from the Twitterverse:

Librarians, Change or be Irrelevant! http://ow.ly/evFCL via @briankelly
3 Ideas for Using Blogs in the Classroom http://ow.ly/evDfP #edchat #edtech #web20
10 Important Questions To Ask Before Using iPads in Class http://bit.ly/TpIzT7 (via @MindShiftKQED) #edtech
Online learning will change universities by degrees http://ow.ly/2sHDvQ
Trend: masses are embracing online learning faster http://ow.ly/2sHptl
Blogging Tips For Teachers: http://bit.ly/Wf7XRx
"10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should)" #openness #oer http://bit.ly/WqBara
Grades out, badges in: http://chroni.cl/RMo57M #ReinventCollege
Tips And Topics For Student Bloggers: http://bit.ly/RW0lS7