Tag: EDUCAUSE 2017
2017 – The Year of the Active Classroom
November 28, 2017 • 0 Comments
In prehistoric times, people learned by doing — active learning. Through the years, as people settled down and built communities and education became democratized, people discussed scrolls and manuscripts in classes. Thus began the lecture-based model of learning – and the fall of active learning, according to D. Christopher Brooks, Ph.D., Director of Research at […]
Heard at EDUCAUSE 2017: Learning in Bursts – Microlearning with Social Media
• November 13, 2017
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(Photos from EDUCAUSE 2017 presentation ‘Learning in Bursts: Microlearning with Social Media’) At Northeastern University (NU) in Boston, Mass., Professor of Journalism John Wihbey uses Twitter in his classroom to develop a community among his students and experts in the field. Using the hashtag #digiNU, he and his students have conversations socially 24/7. Some homework […]
