The Seven Year Itch
Abstract: The MOOC is now 7 years old. If 2012 was the "Year of the MOOC", then what happened in 2013 and what will become of the MOOC in 2014? Ken will give us an update on the past year in Massive Open Online Courses and a sense how they are reall...
Leveraging MOOCs in a Flipped Classroom: An Experiment
Some believe that MOOCs will create a revolution in the higher education and successfully provide a substitute for the traditional instruction, however many others are highly skeptical about the impact and quality of MOOCs and their credibility. Ins...
Making Learning Visible to Increase Student Engagement
Based on educational research from the Project Zero group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this presentation discusses the practice of using a public forum in both online and in face-to-face classes and having students publicly reflect o...
Using student blogs as reflective practice
Presentation Abstract: The progression in the past decade of blogs from personal web journals to a platform for established professionals, corporations and writers has also created opportunities for education. This session looks at the use of blogs ...
Flipped Professional Development Track: Learning & Teaching Innovations
The flipped classroom has been a hot topic in education for a number of years. More recently, the idea of flipping professional development has been experimented at schools and in corporate training. The idea is to rethink what we want to spend our ...
A Mobile App with Zero Programming Knowledge and Zero Costs
Are you interested in creating an app for your organization? Do you have a concern about the costs and programmers required to develop an Apple or Android app? Caldwell College did it, and we did it without a programmer and without paying a third pa...
To MOOC or Not to MOOC
A short history of Massive Open Online Courses and the educational philosophy that drove the creation of the first MOOCs in 2008. Though they are still educationally young, new definitions of MOOCs have already evolved and a number of types (xMOOC, ...
Creating a Hybrid Learning Course for Architectural Education
This presentation will describe a new hybrid learning course, ARCH 229 (Structures I), at the School of Architecture at NJIT. ARCH 229 is a required undergraduate course introducing students to structural design. Scheduled for spring semester 2016, ...