Online Learning Strategies and Skills by Lauren Hensley meets Quality Matters Standards
Lauren Hensley, Interim Director of the Walter E. Dennis Learning Center and doctoral candidate in the College of Education and Human Ecology, recently submitted an online course that she designed and developed for a Quality Matters review. Her course, Online Learning Strategies and Skills (EDUPL …Read more at the full article: Perfect Score Achieved on Quality Matters Review
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Perfect Score Achieved on Quality Matters Review
Posted in eLearning Pedagogy and Tools, Teaching
Tagged course redesign, online courses, online learning, quality assurance, Quality Matters
: bondra.4@osu.edu, tornwall.2@osu.edu
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Launch your Autumn Semester with a Tech Two-a-Day session!
Every day during the week of August 13-17, the Digital Union is hosting a workshop to help you get ready for autumn semester. We also have an expanded series of five Web Fundamentals workshops coming up in the fall, beginning on Tuesday, September 4, and Ken Petri from OSU’s Web Accessibility Center will lead a …Read more at the full article: Launch your Autumn Semester with a Tech Two-a-Day session!
Posted in Workshops
Tagged Tech Two-a-Days, workshops
: bondra.4@osu.edu, griffiths.44@osu.edu, tornwall.2@osu.edu
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Copyright, Fair Use, and Ownership (07/18/2012)
“Who owns the work I create?”
“How do I know if a work is copyrighted?”
“What is fair use and how can I tell when it applies?”
“Can I use someone else’s work to make a new work of my own?”
These are some of the questions that come up when students, faculty, and staff create text, video, or …Read more at the full article: Copyright, Fair Use, and Ownership (07/18/2012)
Posted in Workshops Archive
Tagged copyright, fair use, online courses
: tornwall.2@osu.edu
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Ohio State Sociology Course Meets Quality Matters Standards
Sociology course meets Quality Matters standards in a formal review
Marie Mika’s Marriage and Society online course (SOCIOL 330) went through a formal Quality Matters review by three certified peer reviewers who are online faculty at Ohio institutions of higher education. They examined Marie’s course in fine detail against the Quality Matters rubric and determined that …Read more at the full article: Ohio State Sociology Course Meets Quality Matters Standards
Posted in eLearning Pedagogy and Tools, Teaching
Tagged online learning, online teaching, peer reviewer, quality assurance, quality control, Quality Matters, teaching, teaching online
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Free trial for Ohio State faculty and staff: NBC Learn Higher Ed
Have you ever wished you could quickly and easily find the right video clip to illustrate a point or start a discussion in class? Or maybe you would like your students to have access to video for an assignment. NBC Learn Higher Ed may be the resource you you are looking for.
NBC Learn is a …Read more at the full article: Free trial for Ohio State faculty and staff: NBC Learn Higher Ed
Game-based Learning: Head Hunt (06/27/2012)
The Ohio State University Libraries’ Teaching and Learning Office, in collaboration with the Office of First Year Experience and the Office of Undergraduate Studies, has developed an online game to orient all new first year students and their families to the University Libraries prior to their arrival on campus. The project had a minimal budget, …Read more at the full article: Game-based Learning: Head Hunt (06/27/2012)
Posted in Games for Learning, Workshops Archive
Tagged game-based learning, games, libraries, Library
: tornwall.2@osu.edu
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Market Your Apps and Inventions with Ohio State’s Technology Commercialization Office (06/26/2012)
Staff from Ohio State’s Technology Commercialization Office discussed topics of interest to app developers and other innovators in three separate sessions.
Introduction to Nail It then Scale It
Before you build an app, you need to think about why you’re building it. Too many apps are created without answering basic questions about why they should exist, who …Read more at the full article: Market Your Apps and Inventions with Ohio State’s Technology Commercialization Office (06/26/2012)
Posted in Workshops Archive
Tagged apps, intellectual property, market, mobile app, mobile devices, mobile technology, Mobile Warrior
: tornwall.2@osu.edu
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Back Away from the Podium!
Do you have a feeling your students might be doing something on their mobile devices during class other than sanctioned course activities? If you are tired of competing with the cell phones, iPads, and laptops, the solution might be to use them rather than fight them. Engage your students where they already are—on their devices—with …Read more at the full article: Back Away from the Podium!
Posted in Mobile Devices and Apps
Tagged apps, classroom technology, ipad, learning technology, LectureTools, mobile devices, student engagement, tips
: tornwall.2@osu.edu
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Usability for All: Video Captioning Techniques and Best Practices (05/25/2012)
Ken Petri from the Web Accessibility Center covered a range of simple techniques to create and present captioned video. After a brief introduction to video captioning and an overview of its benefits, he explored ways to get an accurate transcription and create the synchronized caption track.
Access resources used in the presentation
View a Connect recording of …Read more at the full article: Usability for All: Video Captioning Techniques and Best Practices (05/25/2012)
Posted in Workshops Archive
Tagged accessibility, Captioning, captions, Closed Captioning, video
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Student Engagement In and Out of Class
Matt Stearmer uses LectureTools to encourage student engagement and success when he’s meeting with them and even when he’s not.
I joined Matt Stearmer’s Introduction to Sociological Theory class last Friday morning to find out how he’s using LectureTools in his classroom. What I found is that his students are using it perhaps more outside of …Read more at the full article: Student Engagement In and Out of Class