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Self-asess your Sakai course

NspireD2

Assessment was the topic for the final week of the BlendKit course and the reading included a great list of rubrics to help participants examine their own work. My favorite rubric came from Blackboard’s Exemplary Course Program.

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

They want to create a learning experience to introduce people to a topic they’re passionate about. Would-be learners can explore course catalogs, too. Canvas – a popular learning management system/virtual learning environment for institutions, there is also a Free-for-Teacher service which might do the trick.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

What are the best-flipped learning apps for K-12 grades in flipped classrooms? The best-flipped classroom tools can transform and remodel classroom teaching, allowing in-depth learning and personalized attention that can help learners improve their grades. Khan Academy. Lessons also help prepare students for SAT, LSAT, and Praxis Core.

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How people actually use Blackboard, according to Blackboard

Bryan Alexander

How do instructors and learners use learning management systems? Key takeaway: the clear supermajority of LMS usage is, at least for Blackboard, just document management. “To increase student engagement in Learn, instructors should consider adding assessments or discussion forums.”

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative provides for-fee, value-added hosting and customer support services around openly licensed content. And of course, Instructure (Canvas), Moodle Pty Ltd (Moodle), Longsight (Sakai), and other companies provide for-fee, value-added services around Learning Management Systems hosting and support.

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Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption

Iterating Toward Openness

Upon reflection several years ago, I came to see that despite all my efforts I was making the classic Field of Dreams mistake (“if we build it, they will come”) by assuming that “if OER exist in a faculty’s discipline and research shows them to be effective in supporting learning, faculty will adopt.”

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

Edsurge

And of course, the one that was rated 2 and made you wonder how on earth one could go that wrong with a flashlight app. This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). The one with the strobe feature or the one with a built-in timer? Not extravagance, but necessity.

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