Tag: higher ed

Considerations for Podcasting as a Higher Education Assignment

This morning, I’m doing a quick scoping of the teaching and learning resources related to using Podcasts as an assessment tool in the Higher Education classroom. The intended outcome of this environmental scan is to see what the evidence suggests as best practice for designing and facilitating Podcasting assignments. My sources are varied, from Blog […]

Wither Place and the Liveliness of Higher Education?

photo credit: MattSh ~ Roads Less Traveled Bill Gates is quoted today in a post on TechCrunch as saying that higher education needs to be less “place-based”. The post goes on to suggest that Gates thinks that “technology is the only way to bring education back under control and expand it”. An interesting assumption here, […]

Reflections on my first use of Twitter in the classroom

Update (5-17-11): This post has turned into a book chapter, which, in turn became a presentation. Feel free to visit both. Inspired by others’ use of Twitter in higher ed, I decided to try and integrate Twitter into the course that I’ve developed and instructed while a PhD student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies […]