‘educational technology’
active learning in hybrid and physically distanced classrooms
jun. 11, 2020—by derek bruff, director if you’ve read norman clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors might facilitate discussion, group work, and other forms of active learning this fall. if i’m standing at the front of the classroom with half...
flipgrid: empowering voices with asynchronous online video discussions
apr. 21, 2020—by patrick murphy, senior lecturer in the department of spanish & portuguese flipgrid is a free online video tool from microsoft that allows students to record video for up to 10 minutes. it has a lot of fun visual effects as well as intuitive assessment and feedback options that can be included in rubric evaluation...
leading lines ed tech podcast featuring andrew wesolek
oct. 23, 2019—andrew wesolek is the director of digital scholarship and scholarly communication at the jean and alexander heard libraries. he is also the co-author, along with jonathan lashley and anne langley , of the new book oer: a field guide for academic librarians . oer stands for “open educational resources.” these are educational resources, including but...
catch up with season six of the leading lines ed tech podcast
sep. 13, 2019—leading lines kicked off season six in august with an interview with randall bass. randy is vice provost for education and a professor in the english department at georgetown university. he was the founding director of georgetown’s teaching center, the center for new designs in learning and scholarship (cndls), and one of the first educators...
faculty panel considers future of digital literacies on leading lines podcast
jun. 24, 2019—on leading lines, we usually talk with educators, researchers, and technologists about what they’re doing now, and ask them a question or two about where they’d like to see educational technology go in the next few years. in this episode, however, we’re going to camp out in the future. the vanderbilt 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 recently...
teaching innovations at vanderbilt: daniela d’eugenio and selective technology use
apr. 29, 2019—by faith rovenolt, cft undergraduate intern personal technological devices, such as phones and laptops, are ubiquitous in society as well as the classroom. their use is banned outright by some professors and encouraged by others, but just as outside of the classroom, the exact role and extent they should be used is still being explored....
leading lines ed tech podcast featuring christopher parrish
feb. 21, 2019—in this episode, we hear from christopher parrish, senior vice president and portfolio general manager at 2u. in this interview, john sloop, vanderbilt’s associate provost for education development and technologies, talks with chris parrish from 2u about 2u’s model for online education, why 2u’s standard university partnership is a ten-year commitment, and where chris parrish...
top hat week is here!
jan. 28, 2019—by derek bruff, cft director it’s top hat week at vanderbilt! what does that mean? well, we’re encouraging everyone teaching a class at vanderbilt this week to try top hat, vanderbilt’s in-class polling system. you can use top hat to pose a multiple-choice or free-response question to your students and have them respond using their...
top hat week begins jan. 28th!
jan. 13, 2019—are you interested in new ways to engage your students during class? top hat is vanderbilt’s classroom response system, available for free to all faculty, staff, and students. using top hat, instructors can pose polling questions and ask all their students to respond using their phones or laptops. top hat quickly collects and visualizes student...
natasha casey and spencer brayton featured in leading lines ed tech podcast
jun. 14, 2018—in this episode, the newest member of the leading lines team, melissa mallon, brings us an interview about teaching critical media literacy. the interview features natasha casey, a communications professor at blackburn college in illinois, and spencer brayton, library manager at waubonsee community college, also in illinois. while brayton was at blackburn college, he and...