To Publish or Self-Publish, That is the Question
The era of self-publishing ebooks is here and threatens the traditional publishing methods utilizing dedicated publishing houses, editors and the peer review process. The current state of self-publishing utilizes more than text as now multimedia enh...
Advancing global education: joining the open courseware consortium
This presentation outlines the work that was involved with NJIT becoming a member of the Open Course Consortium (OCWC). The OCW is collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions from around the world that make available high quality fr...
Creating a Helpdesk Where None Exists
As the use of technology in education continues to increase, so does the need to train people to use it effectively. When an institution cannot provide a 24/7 helpdesk to assist students, faculty are often level one support for students, although th...
Wiki-fy Your Class
A wiki is web page that you create and use to help you teach your classes. It's more than a blog and less than a LMS (Learning Management System). At a minimum, wikis can be used for organizing your class: an electronic bulletin board with your syll...
Unintended Consequences: Measuring Faculty Buy-in to Instructional Technology
Besides redesigning 25 GenEd courses across disciplines to include more writing, an initiative at PCCC has been to introduce instructional technology into those same courses. Now in its fifth year, we have found varied success with the six technolog...
Using iPads to Promote Active Learning in the Classroom
The acceptance and excitement of using iPads in academia has been shared within the community since the release of the tablet. The versatility and ease of use of the iPads has enabled educators to transform the classroom pedagogy from teacher-center...
International group projects using Google Groups
Presentation Abstract: The Web offers unique opportunity for students from around the world to establish communicative relationships with each other. Two academics from Australia and the United States decided to explore its potential for learning an...
Making online class more social with Facebook
A growing number of universities are providing online distance learning courses to meet student demand. According to a recent survey conducted by the Sloan Consortium (Parry, 2010), colleges saw a 17 percent increases in online enrollment and more t...
Creating searchable visual portfolios of student work
An assessment tool that has been gaining acceptance in the Arts and Humanities is the student portfolio. Such portfolios collect and evaluate student work over time, and are considered to provide a more accurate, longitudinal view of student develop...
Enron unraveled
Presentation Abstract: On the surface, Enron conjures up Churchill's description of the Soviet Union "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Initially my freshmen Business Ethics students believe they will never figure out what is going on...