New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google’s Free Services – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

New Blackboard Tool Connects With Google’s Free Services – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Boston publisher enters new chapter in textbooks – The Boston Globe

Boston publisher enters new chapter in textbooks – The Boston Globe

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Pros offer timely tips to empty that inbox – The Boston Globe

Pros offer timely tips to empty that inbox – The Boston Globe

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At One 2-Year College, Adjuncts Feel Left Out – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education

At One 2-Year College, Adjuncts Feel Left Out – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Four learning strategies from WSU

Check out this visual map of different virtual learning strategies:

4 strategies.pdf (application/pdf Object).

Tips to Reduce Cheating

On this subject, I am still looking for some data on the prevalence of cheating – is this endemic, or occasional? How do we know, when it is a secret activity by definition?

One nice feature of LMS quiz makers is the ability to upload a multiple-choice test bank from which exam questions can be chosen. There are two levels of randomization possible in most systems like Blackboard or others:

• Choosing, say, 10 randomized questions out of a list of 50, so that each student gets a different set of 10 questions
• Randomizing the responses on the same question, so that Student A chooses the correct response “A,” but student B’s correct response will appear as “C” for the same question. Read on…

Tips to Reduce Cheating in the College Classroom

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More Affluent and More Urban More Likely to use Social Networks | Nielsen Wire

The More Affluent and More Urban are More Likely to use Social Networks | Nielsen Wire

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Managing Disruptive Students in the College Classroom

Managing Disruptive Students in the College Classroom

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Critical thinking? You need knowledge – The Boston Globe

Critical thinking? You need knowledge – The Boston Globe

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Lecture on Darwin at Williams

Darwin lecture at Williams