The state of e-learning 2009

It’s that time of year again. Here’s a personal look back at e-learning in 2009 (I will do another blog on priorities for Canadian e-learning in 2010, and a third blog on international trends to watch in 2010).

What I did

This year I worked in Alberta, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, [...]

Using clickers on multiple sites in a distributed undergraduate medical program

Terris, B. (2009) University Uses ‘Clickers’ to Quiz Students in Multiple Location Chronicle of Higher Education, September 14

The University of British Columbia recently completed a trial of a new satellite polling system by i>clicker, which sells student-response systems. The new system allowed students on three campuses, all part of the university’s Distributed Undergraduate Medical Program, [...]

Clickers: Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments

Bruff, D. (2009) Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments San Francisco: Jossey-Bass

Publishers blurb: ‘This book is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines (with a discipline index). The book also incorporates results from research on the effectiveness of the technology [...]

Writing the Book on Clickers

Jaschik, S. (2009) Writing the Book on Clickers, Inside Higher Education, Feb 24

An interview of the author of Bruff, D. (2009) Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, with some interesting comments and discussion about the value of clickers

Steam engines and IT: electronic note-taking (paper-based computing)

(This replaces an earlier post)

Hannon, C. (2008) Paper-based Computing EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 31. No. 4

This article looks at some of the issues arising from electronic note-taking, prompted by the development of the Livescribe Pulse smart pen. This technology is aimed directly at the college student market. The pen points a tiny camera at specially marked [...]