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NEWS: 3PlayMedia's FREE WEBINAR on YouTube for Higher Education

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YouTube is a FREE online video repository that allows you to subscribe to video channels of instructional videos and create/save your own videos for your courses. YouTube allows you to share your own video channel with relevant videos for your students to view. You can build video assignments that encourage students to connect in a deeper way to course material thus enhancing their learning.

3PlayMedia is sponsoring a FREE webinar on setting up your own video materials on YouTube for use in your classes.

5 Trends in Education to Keep Watching in 2015

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Happy New Year, Everyone !!!  With my first post of the new year, I feel compelled to share with you the trends in education that I am watching.

One of the reasons I started this blog was to write about the trends in education that I was seeing that have affected me as a teacher, content developer and educational consultant.

So to that end, here are five trends that I list below in any order of importance. My trends list is by far not meant to be a complete list but just a “tip of the iceberg” of the trends that I’m keeping my eye on as they affect my teaching and practice.

Please note that the impact of the trends I list are based on my own observations, opinions and experiences.

How Often Should You Communicate with Your Students Online?

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I teach several undergraduate online courses per year and have often wondered how and when faculty members communicate with their students each week. Some schools actually have guidelines (really requirements) for how often faculty should contact their students to find out how they are doing, but my school leaves it up to the individual faculty member.

I personally like to communicate with my students a few times each week. In looking at my faculty evaluations each semester, students always give me high marks for communication. When I ask them specifics, they have said -

What Should Your LMS Modules Contain?

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I'm in the process of building my next summer computer course in Moodle and I started thinking about what key elements belong in each LMS module. From years of teaching courses online, I've learned to "keep a tidy ship" in this area.

Lately through my consulting work with building courses and working with teachers in educational technology, I've been able to preview quite a few LMS modules. 

For the most part, I've been pretty impressed with how teachers set up their LMS modules with the essential information.

Example of an InfoGraphic for a Faculty Introduction from Prof. Horn @ Stanford

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Using Google Advanced Search Page to Find Free Images

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As a teacher, I have to create a variety of educational content for my blogs, online courses and workshops. Images offer a great way of imparting information to my students. Some of the ways that I use images are -