Dyslexia: a different kind of mind
Dyslexia, a learning disability that affects oral and written language, often masks the presence of a gifted mind. People with dyslexia learn differently. This program from The Doctor Is In explores that cognitive difference by examining how dyslexi...
Learning Curves: Violence on Campus
There has been a marked increase in violent behavior on many campuses. Some blame the courts, arguing that legal decisions meant to protect students against abusive behavior have instead been used to tie the hands of school authorities.
The center can not hold: living, learning and leading in a networked world
Keynote Address. Web 2.0 technology has underwritten a radical redistribution of expertise. Have a question about an ailment? The cost of an automobile? Comparative mortgage rates? Competing theories of religious freedom? Approaches to reading the ...
Lunch Love Community: Mind
About the series: How are citizens transforming local food systems? How are innovators changing the way children eat in schools? How do we talk about culture, identity and responsibility through the lens of food and health?
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Education In The Digital Age: Minnows and Giants, Oh My!
Like Janus or perhaps more like Voldemort growing from the head of Professor Quirrell, higher education has two faces. One face is more than 1000 years old and would be familiar to someone visiting from medieval Europe. The other face, like Volde...
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...