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This Friday, April 10, 2009 we will be facilitating an open online discussion about online teaching from Noon – 1pm CDT. At NIU we’ve offered face-to-face online teaching brown bag sessions in the past but this will be our first attempt at holding such informal discussions online. We’re not limiting the discussion to just NIU [...]

Faculty spend a lot of time crafting hour long lectures. The prospect of boiling them down to 60 seconds — or even five minutes — may seem daunting. David Penrose, a course designer for SunGard Higher Education who developed San Juan College’s microlectures, suggests that it can be done in five steps:

List the key concepts [...]

Looking for a better way to record and present information online? Give the free Flowgram a try! Create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, PowerPoint, and more with your voice annotation.
Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more.

Anyone else already using Flowgram? What are your [...]