at the College of William & Mary
It’s easy to find criticism with new ideas, and massive open online courses are no exception. In this post, Gene responds to a scathing review of an introductory statistics course offered by Udacity. Massive Open Online Courses, he says, can offer professors ways to interact with students on an individual level that large lecture courses cannot.
For this week, check out our links to read about Evan’s new WordPress plugin, an attempt at digitizing academic publishing, soon-to-be obsolete office items, and structuring collaborative assignments. If any of these sound interesting, click through to read more!
What should a faculty member or advanced graduate student put on a faculty website? In this post, Kim covers what you might want to include in on a basic professional website.
What happens when technology doesn’t work as well as you hope it does? In this post, Pablo tells a fable about how he used his iPhone while kayaking and runs into some unexpected inclement weather.
In this week’s links, you’ll read about how to think about counting multimedia projects for tenure, favorite iPad apps for teachers, and Coursera’s latest expansion. Enjoy!
With the announcement of the Google Course Builder, a tool for building online courses, what can we expect from this tool, and where might it lead?
Linking your online accounts together can get you into trouble if you someone gets into just one of those accounts. In this post, John writes about what you might want to keep in mind to keep your accounts secure.
For this week, check out the Google Course Builder, a review of a statistics MOOC, how Google Maps make their maps, the best iPad apps for teaching, and which browsers to use with Blackboard. Enjoy!
How do you go about editing and commenting on the same document while in an online writing group or working on other collaborative projects? In this post, I test out two different methods for sharing and commenting on text documents — a Microsoft Word and Dropbox combination and Google Drive. As a bonus, I also test out Scrivener’s ability to convert comments to a Word document.
In this post, Mike talks about the discontinuation of one of his favorite applications, the screen-capturing Jing.