Here’s a sample of articles, blog posts, reports and web resources that CIT consultants and staff are looking at this month on teaching, technology and higher education trends.
Got an interesting article or blog post you’re reading? Send us a link at learninginnovation@duke.edu.
Teaching and learning trends
- 12 Tech Innovators Who are Transforming Campuses (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/26/2012)
- Harvard Conference Seeks to Jolt University Teaching (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/5/2012)
- Re-Engineering Engineering Education to Retain Students (Chronicle of Higher Education – Percolator blog, 2/19/2012)
- How ‘Flipping’ the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/19/2012)
- Undergraduate STEM Education Report – President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House)
- NMC Horizon Project Short List: 2012 Higher Education Edition (New Media Consortium, pdf format)
- Colleges looking beyond the lecture (Washington Post, 2/15/2012)
Faculty teaching tips and reflections
- What Happens if We Just Ask Questions? (Chronicle of Higher Education – Casting Out Nines blog, 2/23/2012)
- Strategies for Blog-powered instruction (Campus Technology, 01/01/12)
- Web 2.0 — at Your Own Pace: How Faculty Members Can Start Using Web 2.0 Tools (Inside Higher Ed, 2/29/2012)
- Talking About Teaching Failures (Inside Higher Ed – College Ready Writing blog, 2/28/2012)
- Interactive Lectures -Summaries of 36 Formats (The Thiagi Group)
- Online learning instructional design 101 (The Rapid E-Learning Blog, 2/15/2011)
- The Flipped Classroom Infographic (Knewton blog)
- Pros and Cons of Social Media in Education (infographic) (Interactyx Social Learning Blog)
- Teaching, creativity and Interpretation; Or, What I Learned from D.W. Winnicott and Nell Irvin Painter (Chronicle of Higher Education blog network – Tenured Radical, 1/12/2012)
- Our Students as Inspiration (Chronicle of Higher Education – Lesboprof blog, 12/4/2011)
Teaching with technology
- A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/12/2012)
- Encouraging Distraction? Classroom Experiments with Mobile Media (Chronicle of Higher Education – Profhacker blog, 2/9/2012)
- Student Study Space: the entrepreneurial model (my visit to TechPad) (Chronicle of Higher Education blog network – The Ubiquitous Librarian, 12/15/2011)
- Some iPhone Apps for Productivity (Inside Higher Ed – GradHacker blog, 2/23/2012)
Ebooks and etextbooks
- The state of the eBook, early 2012 (Download the Universe: The Science Ebook Review, 2/22/2012)
- 2 New Platforms Offer Alternative to Apple’s Textbook-Authoring Software (Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus blog, 2/17/2012)
- Instructional Designers Wanted: No Experience Necessary (thoughts on Apple’s iBooks Author) (Inside Higher Ed, 2/13/2012)
- Can Bookrenter Leverage Its Campus Bookstore Technology to Challenge the Textbook Industry? (Inside Higher Ed – Hack Higher Education blog, 2/28/2012)
Technology trends in influencing teaching
- Mobile Devices Will Outnumber Humans in 2012, Cisco says (PC World, 2/14/2012)
- Underwater ‘Seaview’ lets you explore coral reef (New Scientist, 2/2012)
- Making Stuff: 3D Printing on Campus (Campus Technology, 02/21/12)
- New Videoconferencing Tool Lets Distant Musicians Rehearse Live (Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus blog, 2/24/2012)
- Focus on the Future: Lytro Light Field Camera Review (Wired, 2/29/2012)