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 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...
Web 2.0 tools and a CORE curriculum course
There is a need in the millennial generation to link classroom teaching with the ways that students learn best, namely using online applications linked to course content. This research project involved two faculty members and their students in a req...
Voices @ the Hall
Voices @ the Hall is a unique initiative that utilizes the potential of social media to support student inquiry and interdisciplinary collaboration. The foundation of this project stems from the collaboration between the Freshman Studies and English...
Teaching with technology: a model for implementation
Many educators have been early adopters of pedagogical technologies and have worked hard to keep pace with rapid innovations over the past decade. Many others started later but continue to join in the technology revolution in education. With a cornu...
Using moodle for online course delivery
Moodle provided an effective interface for the online learning format. Any discipline that uses online teaching or needs a record of student work for accreditation or assessment purposes can benefit from this project as it allows discussion, journal...
First year seminar on social networking & sustainability: lessons learned
Most first year college students tell stories of "getting caught" on their laptops Facebooking or MySpacing. They are members of multiple social networks, with highly developed online communication and multitasking skills, so desirable in today's jo...
Use of screencasts in information literacy instruction
The development of information literacy has become an essential curricular goal in undergraduate education regardless of major or instructional delivery format. This session summarizes collaboration between a college librarian and a faculty member, ...
Powerful lectures, self grading exams, and dynamic gradebooks, using cloud computing
Want lectures with truly seamless audio and video? Want to give paperless exams that grade themselves? Want a gradebook that is dynamic and will automatically update a student accessible grade web page? Bring your classroom into the new era of cloud...
Visualizing American Literature with Pinterest
Most literature classes focus on the word rather than the image. Pinterest can give you a way to change that dynamic. With its emphasis on the visual and material culture, this online community allows students to individually and collaboratively pro...