The single best tool for teaching online courses is… Sorry, but there isn’t one. Even if there was a best tool today, there would be a few more by the end of the week. One of the biggest sources of frustration in teaching and designing online courses is the sheer tonnage of new tools that [...]
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Recent research and observations have shown me that it is not exactly easy to take an online program and scale it up to offer it to a wider population of students. It’s one thing to work with small cohorts of like-minded faculty and students. When enrollments are small it is much easier to manage curriculum [...]
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In this podcast I talk about the changing world of creating and publishing educational materials. In a previous podcast I talked with Dr. Jason Rhode about creating ebooks and other materials and I’ve written about ebooks here and app development here. iDevice development (for iPads, iPhones, and the iPod Touch) offers a variety of options in educational [...]
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Developing an app, a program that runs on a portable device such as a smart phone or tablet computer, is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Developers for the Android smart phone system can design an app that looks just like one that runs on an iPhone, but underneath the icon the guts of the program are completely [...]
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Teaching today is extraordinarily different from what teaching was just a few years ago. It’s the most important shift in educational technology in decades, and it occurred in a startlingly fast two years. The steep learning cliff that was in front of ‘early adopter’ teachers in the 1990s became more manageable as the Internet grew into a more functional [...]
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Apple is in the news for offering a new textbook authoring system for everyone. Apple’s iBooks platform, for selling and distributing ebooks to Apple devices now has iBook Author, which I wrote about here. iBooks Author allows anyone to write and produce an ebook, from text-heavy textbook-like tomes to highly interactive, media rich modules. It [...]
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