Online Engineering Education Paper
As promised, here is a link to the pilot telephone survey I did concerning online engineering education. Enjoy! http://lancer.edublogs.org/files/2010/03/Kinney-Telephone-Survey-Report_No_Transcripts.pdf
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Saw the movie Chalk the other night. (Thanks Chris for the recommendation!) Fun movie – lots of the good/bad/ugly of high school teaching. The first year history teacher was great – and completely...
View ArticleCMS 101
Full disclosure – most of my experience with CMSs has been a) as a student and b) with the defaults of Blackboard. The few times I’ve taught with the Blackboard system, I’ve tried to fiddle around with...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 Paper – Read at your own risk
I worked on a paper about Web 2.0 in Education that was accepted for the eLearn 2009 conference in Vancouver, CA. A fellow student and I (Gregg Orr) presented at the conference. Here is the link to the...
View ArticlePLE me
This week’s readings were interesting to me in the sense that I’ve never really thought in a structured way about how I organize the tools that I use to learn/study/gather knowledge. While I have built...
View ArticlePLE and Engineering Education
As I read through the articles for this week, I tried to see them through the lens of engineering educators. How might the concept of open-source, non-structured, completely user-centered informal...
View ArticleDigital Illegal Alien
After reviewing the readings for this week (Prensky on Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants and the TALL blog and video, I think these metaphors are interesting for discussing and contrasting those that...
View ArticleWhere are the Engineeratars?
As part of my research project / paper, I’ve been amassing a list of university and college sites in Second Life. I’ve then visited each location – I’ve explored 51 so far – looking for evidence of...
View ArticleCritique It!
Carroll, N.L.; Markauskaite, L.; Calvo, R.A.; , “E-Portfolios for Developing Transferable Skills in a Freshman Engineering Course,” Education, IEEE Transactions on , vol.50, no.4, pp.360-366, Nov. 2007...
View ArticleAnother one for the books
So, we’re supposed to do a ‘wrap-up’ reflection on what we’ve learned in this class, good stuff / bad stuff, take-aways, etc. Get ready for a punt. I don’t know if I can put my finger on just what I’ve...
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