Play With New Toys and Enhance Your Teaching
Toys are fun by definition, and we tend, alas, to have fewer toys as we get older and more serious in our endeavors. That was one of my thoughts as I read Laurie Rowell’s latest contribution to eLearn Magazine about […]
Recommender Systems for Online Education
I’ve read a lot recently about recommender systems, which have been defined as “personalization tools that help users to find interesting information and services in complex online shops”. Amazon is one of the best known sites that uses them, and […]
Displaying Text on a Computer: Do Comic Strips Have Advantages over Pages of Text?
You can learn math from Factoring with Mr. Yang in a comic-strip fashion. While I approached this course with cynicism, I found it surprising engaging (knowing that I am not their target audience). In contrast, I started reading my first […]
Doing More with Less and Other Highlights of the CLO Fall 2009 Symposium
Clark Quinn presented this week at the CLO Fall 2009 Symposium. I asked him what the highlights were for him. His response: There’s a trend towards lifting the CLO game. It’s clearly no longer about meeting training needs; you aren’t […]
Share Your Web 2.0 Classroom Projects
I connected with Terry Freedman recently when I saw he was working on a project to amass web 2.0 projects for teachers into a free online book. Actually, he had already done it once and is currently in the process […]