Pedagogy
7 Things You Should Know About
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Educause Learning Initiative: 7 Things You Should Know About
The “7 Things You Should Know About…” series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a [...]
3 Tips for Interactive Web Conference Design
Faculty and staff at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) have been using web conferencing software for the delivery of live lectures in online courses and web-based orientation and information sessions for the past three years. As more folks at Penn start using web conferencing tools, I wanted to share some of what [...]
Online Workshop Teaching: Shouting down a deep well
On Monday I taught my first hands-on workshop completely online using Penn Libraries’ new Adobe Connect room. I chose to teach Excel Pivot Tables under the logic that anyone interested in pivot tables would be comfortable enough with juggling multiple windows and handling sound problems. This was a good assumption – the seven participants handled [...]
MGMT 652 Leadership Simulation: A Story about Potential
Lately I’ve come to realize that there can be a strange difference between knowing and believing – that faith arises out of a different facet of humanity than knowledge. For years, I knew in some way that I deserved the good things that seemed to serendipitously enter my life but I couldn’t rise above my [...]
9/25 Engaging Students Through Technology Symposium
Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, 10:30 am to 3 pm
It’s not a coincidence that our symposium has the same name as this blog! Several regular bloggers here are involved and we hope all of you will join us.
Explore teaching with new media through faculty insights, hands-on exploration of four technologies and an overview of new [...]
Game Theory and Technology
This is my first official post on the Penn Engaging Students through Technology blog so I’d like to quickly introduce myself. My name is Erin Murphy and I work for a group at Wharton Computing called the Learning Lab. Each year the Learning Lab receives proposals from Wharton professors to develop web-based applications that extend [...]
New report on the effectiveness of online learning
The US Department of Education released a new report on 6/26/09 concerning the effectiveness of online learning. This report is a meta-analysis which analyzes the results of prior studies.
The attention-grabbing headline of this report states, “The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference [...]
Facebook for Language Practice
Like the social network 2nd Life, Facebook has gained in popularity not only among recreational users but also among educators and their students. Traditionally, members use Facebook to update personal profiles and notify their friends about each other. However, we now see Facebook being used in language classes to create communities of online learners who [...]
Student privacy in a public world
In a previous post, I described some free, commercial tools that instructors and students can use for creating web sites for course projects. But planning a web project requires more than just finding the right technology platform. As an instructor, you need to consider what type of material is – and is not [...]
Online Mashup Voting – Now through April 30
Something fun to share – our annual mashup contest has taken off this year with 33 entries, and for the first time, we are taking online votes and all entries are linked there with descriptions. Online voting closes on April 30 at 10 am.At our awards event this Thursday, we will award prizes to the [...]
