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Technology Supplements, Does Not Supplant Education

Tue, 11 Jun, 2013    design,  higher learning,  instructor,  students,  technology

As much as we love technology here in the Distance Education Department, we do not believe that technology should replace the human element in the teaching and learning processes.  Each class has an instructor for a reason and those instructors reason and infer things about their class that only they can do.  Instead, we believe that technology should make teaching easier and more convenient in many aspects.

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Blackboard Best Practices

Tue, 9 Apr, 2013    ada,  best practices,  blackboard,  copy and paste,  new course,  technology

Distance Education has compiled a list of best practices for traditional, blended, and online instructors using Blackboard

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The Flipped Classroom

Tue, 26 Feb, 2013    21st century,  bloom's taxonomy,  colleg,  distance education,  flipped classroom,  higher learning,  online,  technology,  transmission

For so long, almost every college classroom has looked the same whether you were in Buies Creek, North Carolina, Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Columbus, Ohio.  These classrooms contained typical college students, desks or tables to sit at, and a professor who stood behind a podium and lectured to the class and almost certainly dominated the discussion, whether by design or not.

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Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology

Fri, 15 Feb, 2013    effective,  engagement,  higher education,  teachers,  technology

I just recently read an article called, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology."  I found this to be interesting because much of what is addressed in the article are things that I have experienced while trying to assist classroom teachers in integrating technology into their classroom lessons.  There seems to be a lot of misconceptions from the public when it comes to the use of technology in the classroom.  And this also applies to college professors that use technology in their classrooms.

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