Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Over a cup of coffee: October 7th edition

The Instructional Design and Development Blog post on going back to the basics with Web 2.0 tools. The Teaching and Learning Centre at Emily Carr University offer further video tutorials with their guide on Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching.

The Teaching Professor writes on the idea that less is more in our teaching. Read more in her post entitled the 'Pedagogy of Ironic Minimalism.'

ProfHacker asks us to take a minute to reflect on what’s working and what’s not in our classes. ProfHacker suggests a framework to improve things that aren’t working by taking lessons from what is working.

Inside Higher Ed. reports on a technique called “discovery learning” that is being used to replace traditional lectures in chemistry courses.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed. makes note that PBS and NPR have started putting a number of lectures from academics on their new website: Forum Network.