Online Blogucation

Flu season is right around the corner and many are contemplating flu vaccines. However, as I’m dealing with yet another situation of academic dishonesty (which unfortunately seems to happen about once a semester… so hopefully this is it for a while!), I’m reminded of a great article from our Educator’s Voice newsletter on “Vaccinating against [...]

09/08/09: I’m on a plane on my way to perform my first Project Tapestry training. After in many ways suffering through the curriculum meetings and organized “meet and greet your child’s new teacher(s)” sessions that accompany the beginning of the school year in my own children’s schools, I finally get to say all of the [...]

This professor of communications and lover of cheese steaks bought a new pair of running shoes a few months back. Then, he bought the Nike sensor system – a small sensor you put in your shoe somehow. This sensor sends information to your iPod during a run. That data tells you (in real time) how you’re doing, but it also allows you to see any trends in your running after you upload the data to the Nike+ website. Apparently he’s run about 340 miles and his average speed has increased by 1 mile per hour. He can tell you how many calories he’s burned and he’s delighted to tell you how many pounds he has lost.

Most of us have heard of the European Union along with the establishment of the Euro as a common currency across the continent. Fewer have heard of the Bologna Process which began in June, 1999 with the goal of creating a more standardized higher education system in EU member nations. One initiative has been a [...]

Questions about copyright and the fair use of copyrighted materials for education come up a lot during out work with educators on different campuses. I was planning on writing about this topic anyway, and then I came across a great resource that I knew I had to share. It’s an interactive guide to using multimedia [...]

Do you allow students to use laptops in your face to face classes? No matter how you answer that question, you are probably not alone. This is a divisive subject which is frequently discussed among instructors. An anecdotal study of the affect of laptop use on classroom performance has recently been discussed in the news. [...]

A column on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website recently reported that students’ #1 technology request is to have online chat capabilities with their instructor (here’s a report on the CDW-G study examining the role of technology in higher education). I’ve been kicking this around in my mind since first reading that CHE column. What [...]

Over the past few months I’ve been reflecting and writing about assessment accountability and its intersection with workplace competencies.  I believe today’s post on competency-based learning nicely integrates these two topics and provides academic leaders with a progressive assessment model that dovetails nicely into learning outcome management systems which support the more rigorous demands of [...]

I had a conversation about online business programs with several hiring managers last week and the discussion turned to a comparison of online versus traditional brick and mortar programs. One business owner expressed a concern about not having any idea what took place in the online classroom.  I explained that everything online is documented so [...]

EducationTube:  If you checked out the Educator’s Voice Tip last month, you saw how to upload a YouTube video into your course.  We heard several comments from teachers about it.  Mostly we heard cheers and gratitude, but we also got a chunk of instructor’s who said, “why?” 
Let’s see if I can answer the “why” [...]