Tag Archives: EdTech
Transforming Educational Delivery Methods – Hype or the New Normal?
Student preference, financial performance pressures at higher education institutions, and the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) explosion are transforming educational delivery methods at a disruptive pace. Technology innovation is fostering entirely new instruction methods. For example, hybrid/blended learning, flipped classrooms … Continue reading
Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Assessments in Large Hybrid Classrooms
Instructors have been using asynchronous assessments, in the form of homework, for generations. With the rise of learning management systems (LMS) over the past two decades, asynchronous homework, quizzes and now online assignments have become the norm. Clicker-based student response … Continue reading
The Future is Now – Smart Devices will be Ubiquitous, Clickers are Dinosaurs
Present-day technology provides students with an opportunity to learn and engage in the classroom in ways that their predecessors could only imagine. The days of using a paper and pencil as primary tools to facilitate learning are long gone. The … Continue reading
The Education Shift to BYOD
Bring your own device, or BYOD, isn’t just a workplace phenomenon. It is also finding strong legs in education. The U.S. Department of Education’s 2010 Technology Plan, ‘Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology’, states that leveraging the advanced technologies … Continue reading
Blended Learning – Education’s Bricks and Clicks (Clicks and Mortar)
Blended Learning – Education’s Bricks and Clicks (Clicks and Mortar) Posted on August 1, 2012 by viaresponse The concept for this post has been swirling around in my head for more than six weeks. After a lunch with a Director over Instructional Innovation … Continue reading
## 4 HigherEd “Clicker” Terms ## Audience Response System, Personal Response System, Student Response System, and Classroom Response System, Clickers
Destined for the Dustbin of History Never have I seen a market more fragmented by terms describing/defining the same exchange/transaction between an instructor and a student. After years of market positioning and millions of dollars in term differentiation, the market … Continue reading
Instructional Design: Mobile Device Clickers/Smart Phone Clickers/Virtual Clickers, “Just In Time, Just Enough and Just for Me.” (Peters, 2007)
Weekends are a time for family and recreational reading. This weekend was no exception. I put my feet up and turned on the prequel to “March Madness” for ambient noise and began cruising around through my favorite blogs and journals … Continue reading
Instructional Delivery – The Waffle House Way
Within a week of moving to Atlanta, Georgia in the summer of 1991, I distinctly remember walking into a Waffle House and hearing a new language. It was the language of “breakfast food.” I yearned to participate in the hubbub … Continue reading