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This post summarizes my continuing pursuit to move lectures from my classes into short screencasts and reading assignments. It was inspired by my participation in the Fall 2012 Teaching with Technology seminar series and has been an ongoing project since that time. Teaching and Learning Challenge In class, students are...

The use of online course-management platforms and interactive learning environments is gaining traction at many Universities, but the use of these systems is certainly far from the norm. In this document, I discuss possible barriers to successful implementation of these systems for technical courses in engineering and science disciplines. Objectives...

Travis Rupp believes that the best way to educate is to entertain. 鈥淎s teachers, instructors, and professors we are essentially entertainers when we lecture. Since my field is Classics, being able to maintain my students' attention is critical to the preservation of history and my field.鈥� To this end, Rupp...

My pedagogical goal is to get students comfortable doing disagreement as a means of critical thinking and exploring an issue. Getting students to disagree does not require technology. But I do think that technology might be used to minimize some of the face threats students experience while also creating unfamiliar...

I came to TWT with a two-fold objective: a) to learn how to teach with technology for creative, embodied, human-centered subjects such as Performance and Directing and b) to devise a syllabus for an Interdisciplinary Creativity course. My idea is to incorporate technology in creative-type classes by allowing the students...

The images are sometimes faded and the voiceovers are rarely crisp, but the stories they tell are real. She is the youngest of five sisters. He plays a perfect game of pool. A daughter struggles to care for her schizophrenic mother. A young woman finds solace at a Catholic church...

As freshmen at CU, Bryce Eaton and Natalie Rechter expected the usual challenges. Leaving high school for college means navigating an entirely new social atmosphere, succeeding in classes like Classical Mechanics and Mathematical Methods, and learning to accept (or ignore) the various eccentricities of new roommates. However, there was one...

Professor Ken Foote of the Geography department at the 乐播传媒 at Boulder knows the value of increased technology capability in his classroom. For years Dr. Foote鈥檚 class, Elements of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), has been at the forefront of utilizing technology to its fullest capability 鈥� continuously changing...

While the idea of using technology as a teaching tool in classrooms holds allure, why use technology if it does not have a positive effect on learning? During his Teaching with Technology presentation, Dr. Tim Weston spoke on the importance of assessment in determining the efficacy of teaching with technology...

A Chronicle of Education article on 'flipping' college lecture courses highlights Professor Martin's evolutionary biology course.