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How to Create Effective Test Questions

CourseArc

Since online learning often separates teachers from learners across time and distance, we rely on evaluations – in the form of tests, quizzes and assessments – to judge each student’s successful comprehension of the content (and to judge how well the course designers presented their information). But what makes a good test question?

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MIS en place

Learning with e's

Photo by Helloquence on unsplash This is the first post in a new series about School Management Information Systems. Have you ever wondered how information and communication technology (ICT) can be effectively deployed in schools? Managing information for education can be a thorny problem. This article focuses on the latter.

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What students need

Learning with e's

Photo by Lucélia Ribeiro on Flickr This is the second of three posts on school Management Information Systems (MIS). Schools also need relevant information about how well their students are progressing. Part one can be found at this link in which several features of the RM Integris MIS are outlined. Unported License.

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70:20:10 Primer

Performance Learning Productivity

It is published here under the Creative Commons: Attribution – Non-Commercial – Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Research over the past 40 years has shown that informal and workplace learning is increasingly pervasive and central to learning in organisations. Please feel free to use it for any no-commercial purposes.

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8 FREE Resources for Learning About Accessibility

Scissortail's Learning Nest

Learn the Basics Site: Accessibility 101 Description from website: This course is intended to increase understanding and awareness of accessibility in the context of information technology (I.T.), They are informative, not part of the “normative” WCAG standard. Each course must be completed within a specified timeframe.

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What works and what doesn’t?

Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

In summary I think I have been very lucky with all my managers or mentors in that they have all been supportive and engaging in my work and how I approach it. Provide links to key information, to recommended reading, to extra not-necessarily-key-but-still-interesting reading, to videos, to books, to articles, to blogs.

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Designing a PowerPoint Screencast Using Camtasia

TechSmith Camtasia

1 Screencasts can be designed to let students personalize their learning and highlight important information as they proceed at their own pace. YouTube now offers Creative Commons-licensed videos , which are automatically safe to use. Screencast Summary: Have students write a summary response about the screencast content.