“The Shutdown”, Research, Spatial labs, and GIS at CC.

      Sixteen days doesn’t sound all that long, but here at CC, September 30th was the start of Block Two as well as the start of the 2013 Government shutdown.  How exactly does this impact education at a small liberal arts college… In my world of GIS, spatial inquiry and analysis, information is king. …

Mobile lecturing and class feedback – engaged teaching/learning

EDUCAUSE is a gathering of educators who use technology. This yearly conference just happened last week (October 15-18, 2013) and several of the poster presenters put their materials online. One presenter, Perry Samson of the University of Michigan, uses SpashTop and LectureTools to gather realtime feedback from his class as he’s walking around the room …

Further study is necessary to test the variables in adaptive learning

Arizona State has jumped on adaptive learning to try to combat increasing enrollment and lower funding. Scientific American reports: Any accurate evaluation of adaptive-learning technology would have to isolate and account for all variables: increases or decreases in a class size; whether the classroom was “flipped” meaning homework was done in class and lectures were …

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