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Copyright and Fair Use

Posted on: Thursday, June 25th, 2009 in: Best Practices, Education, Online Learning, Teaching, Technology, eLearning

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 [...]

Immediacy and inclusion: making students your academic peers

Posted on: Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 in: eLearning

The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://www.chronicle.com) recently published a thought provoking but not entirely surprising article on student reading and writing habits as assessed by their instructors. In this article, (Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers, http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i39/39writing.htm?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en), the pros and cons of whether social electronic media tools improve or diminish a student’s [...]

Good Training = Good Teaching!

Posted on: Thursday, June 4th, 2009 in: Education

I was trying to guess for someone today how many trainings I’ve performed for eCollege.  Wow…I’ve been at the company almost 7 years and my first job was as a trainer.  Now, as the manager of that same group I don’t “train” as much as I used to, but I still keep my toe in the pool.  I would [...]