Month: February 2015
Standards Based Grading GAMIFIED With Badges
Assessing students based on learning goals is great, but this new gamified approach I stumbled upon has potential to be a game-changer for my students. Source: tapintoteenminds.com See on Scoop.it – 21st Century Assessment
Read More »Badges and Moodle Part 2 – Mark DuBois Weblog
Here are the steps I went through (along with screen captures).In Illustrator, I created a new file with a single artboard. I really didn’t care that much about the size as I wanted to have something which would…
Read More »Badges and Moodle – Mark DuBois Weblog
I spent some time this summer investigating the potential use of badges in my courses for the coming fall, 2013 semester. I realize that some students will embrace this concept and others will not. I thought it appropriate…
Read More »How Teachers Will Change the Future of Tech
Imagine for moment if all teachers were technophobic. What would that mean for technology development in the long term? Sure, we’d have some self-taught geniuses, like Bill Gates, who would figure out computer programming all on their own….
Read More »The rise and rise of learning analytics
Learning analytics is the study of student behaviour through patterns in their digital world: how often, when and where they log on; the digital resources that they use; the web sites they visit; the social media platforms that…
Read More »The Horizon Report: A History of Ed-Tech Predictions
For over a decade now, the New Media Consortium has issued an annual Horizon Report, detailing the six technologies that it predicts will soon impact colleges and universities. These predictions identify emerging technologies on three “horizons”: four to five years,…
Read More »10 Must Read Books on The 21st Century Literacies
The literacy landscape is rapidly evolving to the extent that we can no longer expect what it will be like in the next coming years. Regardless of the nomenclature, whether you call them new literacies, emerging literacies, 21st…
Read More »How Course Web Design Impacts Student Engagement — Campus Technology
Cloud-based applications have the advantage of generating lots of usage data that can give developers insights about how customers are using their products. Rarely, however, do companies share the data publicly. But that’s exactly what Instructure did when…
Read More »Study Shows Steady Growth in ePortfolio Use; What Does That Suggest?
Active-learning designs, resulting in learners solving problems in many different ways and with varying results, requires a different means of assessing the learning and the results. ePortfolios provide this new means: if learners collect well-constructed and revealing evidence…
Read More »Learning Theory v5 – What are the established learning theories?
Source: cmapspublic3.ihmc.us See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab
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