Learning through digital storytelling: interdisciplinary findings
Presentation Abstract: Learning is most effective when students can insert unfamiliar material into a known frame of reference. Telling digital stories does this by injecting students' popular culture into the classroom, and by allowing them to use ...
Integrating Web 2.0 into your online course
Presentation Abstract: Web 2.0 tools such as podcasts, blogs, wikis, and online video have exploded in popularity. Students often use YouTube, Wikipedia and their favorite blogs and podcasts as their primary sources of information. These Web 2.0-dri...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Using Moodle/iTunes/CUBE software to create a flexible teaching environment
Presentation Abstract: Importance: The combination of Moodle / Itunes /CUBE software (developed at NJIT) provides an extremely flexible teaching environment where students can participate in the class in either convention face-to-face, hybrid or ent...
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...
Google Earth assisted learning for general studies courses at Stockton
Presentation Abstract: This presentation discusses the use of a relatively new software technology called Google Earth in both a freshman level seminar course and in an upper level seminar course. The software is described along with a brief history...