Chrome OS Netbooks: Can Your School Live in the Cloud?
If you haven’t heard of Chrome OS, it’s Google’s attempt to do away with the desktop altogether and have everything that happens on your...
Whenever we build a one-size-fits-all learning experience for all students to move through independently, we should think about how the learner will get personalized...
This post describes how I created a WebQuest using modern eLearning authoring tools, AI content generation, and streaming video.
We instructional designers are trained to think about learning objectives from the very beginning of a project, to design backwards from the outcomes we...
If you haven’t heard of Chrome OS, it’s Google’s attempt to do away with the desktop altogether and have everything that happens on your...
This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to...
When I’m doing a creative project (or just working on a presentation) I am always looking for large, beautiful photos bearing a Creative Commons...
As faculty, you likely spend several hours every week carefully reading, evaluating, and grading student work. Research shows that students report higher course...
During the process of evaluating Blackboard as our Learning Management System (LMS), we came to a basic and fundamental question: “Which tools do faculty...
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). A popular reason for exploring gamification in online learning is because we...
(This post is part of a series called “The Connected Class Community”). The Golden Apple is the most cryptic and strange of all of...
Our university is evaluating Learning Management Systems right now, and comparing the features of Blackboard 9.1, MoodleRooms Joule, and Instructure‘s Canvas LMS has...
I watched this talk today and it was a great synthesis of the reasons to move beyond tradition Learning Management Systems into a more...
Image via Wikipedia I recently got an email from a colleague who wanted to explore the idea of developing Second Life scenarios for educating...