We’ve all heard that the iPad is a wonderful tool for teaching and learning in the classroom. Technology keeps students engaged while the mobile access allows for students to participate in active learning experiences outside the confines of a four-walled classroom. However, according to an article in eCampus News, only 7% of college students in [...]
Reversing (a.k.a. flipping) your classroom is a form of blended learning in which faculty move much of the traditional lecture and in-class information delivery to the web for the student to view outside of class. This in turn allows the professor to spend more time interacting with students in the classroom. That classroom time is used to [...]
TLT has continued its Innovative Instruction Series, which highlights faculty who use technology in innovative ways, by interviewing David Desplaces, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, and Assistant Professor in the Management and Entrepreneurship department in the School of Business. David is an avid technology user and employs a number of different tools and applications [...]
Hopefully you were able to join us at the first TLT Roundtable, Exploring the Reverse Classroom or you have had the chance to view the video from that session and now you would like more ideas on reversing or flipping your class. Well here is another opportunity! Check out TED-Ed to “flip this lesson.” According [...]
As part of the mission of TLT, we are always on the lookout for emerging educational technologies and theories to enrich teaching, learning, and research in innovative ways. While we would like to take credit for many of the innovative instructional techniques we laud, the truth is we often refer to professional journals for instructional technology [...]
The next iteration of online learning is on the horizon: Experts teaching free online courses to anyone. NPR’s All Tech Considered reported on a move by a group of “rogue” Stanford professors to open their classes to anyone free of charge. The result? Over 10,000 students registered in two days. “You can only imagine what [...]
Check out the newest episode in our Innovative Instruction Series. This series highlights CofC faculty who are using technology in creative ways to increase or enhance their students’ learning. In this episode we interviewed faculty who are using the quiz tool in OAKS. We asked them how they use the tool, the benefits, how much time [...]
Check out the newest episode in our Innovative Instruction Series. This series highlights CofC faculty who are using technology in creative ways to increase or enhance their students’ learning. In this episode Darryl Phillips, Speaker of the Faculty and a professor in the Classics Department, talks about how he is using PBWorks‘ wiki in his [...]
Innovative Instruction is a new feature on the TLT blog. This is a place where we will highlight faculty and their effective use of technology in their teaching and with their students. Our first video highlights Merissa Ferrara, a professor in the Communication Department. Watch the video to see how Dr. Ferrara’s students turned in [...]
