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At a time when it’s increasingly difficult to separate truth from falsehood, Wikipedia is an accessible tool for fact-checking and fighting misinformation. 
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The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
November 11, 2014 3:52 PM
A novel approach in education: Collecting and disseminating empirical evidence to justify beliefs and ideas in contrast with making or supporting decisions based on hearsay, anecdotes, and/or past experiences. 
Paula King, Ph.D.'s curator insight,
November 12, 2014 11:28 AM
I have not used this but will check it out.
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Patty Ball's curator insight,
February 15, 2013 2:40 PM
developing a successful online learning environment
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Until a few days ago the way I organized my research library was a bit chaotic, and doing references and bibliographies was always a huge chore that often took days at a time. Essentially I had hundreds and hundreds of PDFs, extracts from blogs and web pages, Word documents and presentations swilling around my hard drive.
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Kim Catcheside takes a look at some of the issues that emerged from the recent live chat about what good teaching should look like in higher education.
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Linking theory to practice in learning technology research...
Abstract We present a case to reposition theory so that it plays a pivotal role in learning technology research and helps to build an ecology of learning. To support the case, we present a critique of current practice based on a review of articles published in two leading international journals from 2005 to 2010. Our study reveals that theory features only incidentally or not at all in many cases. We propose theory development as a unifying theme for learning technology research study design and reporting. The use of learning design as a strategy to develop and test theories in practice is integral to our argument. We conclude by supporting other researchers who recommend educational design research as a theory focused methodology to move the field forward in productive and consistent ways. The challenge of changing common practice will be involved. However, the potential to raise the profile of learning technology research and improve educational outcomes justifies the effort required.
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Designing and Orchestrating Online Discussions
David L. Baker
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This author’s position is that asynchronous online discussions face an array of resolvable pedagogical and course management challenges. Online discussions can transform mere course chatter into a cyber forum of student-centered learning through meticulous planning, designing and orchestrating. After introducing common issues, a literature review summarizes the contributions that online discussions bring to distance learning. The author then addresses pedagogical and managerial issues that plague online discussions with strategies that instructors may readily employ. In the pedagogical realm, these include insights on organizing online discussions, using groups to facilitate interactions, establishing discussion parameters, and ensuring that the course syllabus introduces online discussion details. In the managerial realm, approaches are offered regarding overseeing discussion windows, using icebreakers, assessing student performance, ongoing communications, maintaining an online presence, netiquette, and a variety of other online discussion tips. In support of online instructors, the article weaves in relevant literature with the hard learned lessons from the author’s ongoing attempts to improve online discussions. It concludes by urging instructors to cultivate improvement continuously through candid self-critique supplemented by student feedback.
Keywords: Asynchronous learning; distance learning, online pedagogy, online groups; online discussions; and discussion assessment. Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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In this post I discuss the nature (and weaknesses) of research in our field. I am broadly sympathetic with the arguments offered b
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September 4, 2014 9:10 PM
edX recently commissioned a study of nearly 1,000 videos, segmenting them out by by video type and production style, and discovered this among their other findings: Shorter videos are more engaging. Engagement drops after 6 minutes.Videos with a more personal feeling are more effective than high-fidelity studio recordings.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
September 4, 2014 4:23 PM
An interesting study from the EdX people on using videos in an online course.
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Academic software for bibliography creation and research paper management by Mendeley...
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Enter Evernote. For students, it’s an invaluable way to organize research and streamline the collaboration process. Here are some examples of how Evernote simplifies the student research process. Via Kathleen Cercone
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Beta opening of Scholr.ly: http://scholr.ly/
"What’s most interesting to me is Scholrly’s people-centric emphasis. When you search with a keyword you not only get relevant citations but relevant people as well. The goal is to let users search for people and to figure out who is important within the subject context. And not only that, but what else have those people worked on, who have they worked with, and other related connections."
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