Open educational resources, electronic textbooks, and social media for teaching and learning at the University of Delaware and beyond.
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Web 2.0 on Dec 13th, 2011
I read an interesting article in Inside Higher Ed this week about the story of a marketing professor at Central Michigan University. In this article, Mike Garver, a self-proclaimed great lecturer, explains his process to remove lecturing from his classroom altogether: “I kind of gave up lecturing in the classroom,” Garver says, adding that he [...]
Posted in Devices, Faculty Practice, OER on Oct 31st, 2011
Now that students are equipped with the latest and greatest in mobile technology, the very existence of computer labs on university campuses is being challenged. How can you make the most use of your current computer lab and make it a place where students really learn instead of checking email and playing Farmville? Nicole Servais, [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER on Aug 17th, 2011
Professor Andrew Ng from Stanford University will offer his class on Machine learning for free to anyone on the web. All you have to do is visit the site and sign-up. Non-Stanford students will have to follow the same pace as regular students, but will not get college credits for completing the course, but will [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, Social Media on Aug 16th, 2011
It doesn’t take much to trigger an awesome experience. In the following case, all that was needed was 140 characters and a low-quality picture taken by a cellphone. The Twitter Scavenger Hunt is a friendly competition, initiated by the University of Memphis. Journalism students are given the task to find points of interest, to interview [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Repository on Jul 22nd, 2011
The University of Buffalo hosts an impressive number of case studies focused on science teaching and learning (378 as of July 21, 2011). The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science offers educators in K-12 and college the chance to use their cases for free under some permitted uses. The mission of the National [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Textbook on Apr 21st, 2011
For her MISY427 class (Information Technology Applications in Management), Andrea Everard, Associate Professor in the Department of Accounting and MIS, has started using an open textbook published by Flat World Knowledge. This blog post will cover some of the benefits and challenges that she perceives regarding the use of open materials. Q. In your own [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Repository, Textbook on Apr 6th, 2011
Guest post by Kevin Currie-Knight (bio). Before I even start this blog post, let me make something clear: I don’t think anything I’m doing is particularly cutting-edge or anything. In fact, I think if you ask my students, they’d probably say that I use quite a blend of traditional method with some non-traditional sources. So, [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER on Apr 5th, 2011
I strongly encourage you to have a look at Chris Penna’s essay on the use of a wiki to create a freely available British Literature open educational resource. This site has been built by multiple cohorts of students over time, and is now a reference work that trumps Wikipedia when searching “British Literature Wikis”. In [...]
Posted in Faculty Practice, OER, Policy on Apr 1st, 2011
In higher education, intellectual property is crucial. What we produce is mostly knowledge, and knowledge objects can be digitized and propagated at the click of a mouse. In a recent post on the Creative Commons site, Paul Stacey, Director of Communications, Stakeholder and Academic Relations at BCcampus, argues that educators in his system are better [...]
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