Learning That Lasts: Helping Students Remember and Use What You Teach
By Tyler J. Griffin, PhD, published 4/14/2014 in Faculty Focus. This article is a good reminder and reinforcement of many aspects we discussed in our recent Designing the 21st Century Learning Experience AQIP project. The recommendations are both important and...
To improve student performance, start thinking like a coach
As a farm kid, I never had time for sports, never had an opportunity to work with a great coach. Even so, this article on coach-like feedback resonates with me as it makes a compelling argument for a means to improve learning. Jeff / CIE. To Improve Student...
Bay Path university teacher Tom Mennella provides a detailed look at his flipped course and how students are benefiting from this instructional model
My Flipped Classroom – I Will Never Teach Another Way Again by Thomas Mennella on July 1, 2014 In March of 2014, the Flipped Learning Network (www.flippedlearning.org) adopted and released a formal definition for flipped learning: “Flipped Learning is a pedagogical...
Goodbye VHS and Video Distribution
We have officially said goodbye to VHS Technology and Video Distribution. Educational Media Technologies has removed all VHS tapes from the media library. We will be sending those VHS tapes to recycling on August 1st. If you would like any of these VHS tapes for your...
A Prisoner for Technology
I was recently sent to the Ohio State Reformatory to do hard-time attending the Ohio Moodlemoot in Mansfield, Ohio. Once in custody, we were all held prisoners for the two day conference in hopes that we would learn something new. The conference focused on how...
An Effective Learning Environment is a Shared Responsibility
This article by Maryellen Weimer, PhD, appeared in the June 18, 2014 edition of Faculty Focus. Whether it’s a student who is texting during class, an online student who makes minimal comments to the discussion board, or a teacher who marches nonstop through mountains...
Moodle Gradebook: You Asked. We Listened!
We have removed 2 unnecessary columns in the Moodle Gradebook. The Email Address and the Phone number columns no longer appear in the Moodle Gradebook allowing more of the grade book to be seen. Use the My preference tab in the Gradebook to make adjustments to the...
Do You Use Copyright Films In Your Course? Please Read!
As we learn more about copyright and our responsibility here at NMC to be in compliance, Educational Media Technologies has been working to develop our process of how copyright videos are used in courses. Because use of online materials falls under the TEACH Act, we...
Using Technology to Improve Student Learning: The Flipped Classroom
Have you been wondering what a flipped classroom means in practice? Thinking about how to increase your students' learning engagement between classes in order to spend time in class for rich discussion or project work? California University of Pennsylvania is offering...
A Different Kind of Flipped Classroom: Student Reactions to Competency-Based Education
The terms flipped classroom and competency-based education (CBE) are frequently used to describe strategies targeting the need for graduates having identified and acquired skills used in the work force. Interestingly, both terms refer to different fundamental paradigm...