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6 interactive whiteboard tips

Learning with e's

Photo by David Goehring on Flickr In my last post, entitled Cinderella Technology , I wrote about the tremendous potential of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) and highlighted some of the reasons why it often fails to be realised in school classrooms. They have been around for a long time, but IWBs seem to have polarised teachers. and Winter, A.

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The Rise of OER and Digital Textbooks in Higher Education

Kitaboo

Digital textbooks bring a lot to the table: they give us access to the latest resources, tools, and interactive content, and they’re convenient, affordable, and easy to reach. However, considering the power of DRM, it is best to check specific licenses like the Creative Commons licenses for re-use permissions.

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

When those early drawings were made, social interaction was closely connected to survival. Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Albert Bandura, 1997) How can we take this premise and apply it to make the onboarding process—and more specifically, a remote onboarding process—more effective?

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Interactions of the fourth kind

Learning with e's

Interaction. Many studies into the importance of interaction in education have been conducted. We all have different definitions of what interaction involves, but most of us agree - it's an important component of learning. Moore, there are three types of interaction. Moore, there are three types of interaction.

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Free Audio Sound Effects for E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

Had a question about finding good free audio sound effects for elearning courses. Many of these free audio sites are under Creative Commons licensing, but check to be sure. Free Audio Sound Effect Sites for Commercial Use. Freesound.org : a mix of all sorts of free audio sound effects. Need to attribute the source.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

Learning with e's

At the recent ALT-C Conference in Nottingham (which I couldn''t attend) a very good question was asked by Renee Filius on Twitter: How can we enable true two-way interaction between lecturers and students that is not too time consuming? 6) Using Skype or another videoconference tool enables tutors and students to interact in a visual mode.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Licensing Teaching Materials

Kitaboo

For example, when you create interactive, intuitive learning content with KITABOO, a digital textbook platform , and it has one-of-a-kind resources, teaching materials licensing will empower you. These often fall under the Creative Commons License. It allows one to retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute the content.

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