Last Friday we had an excellent webinar on the Best Practices in Distance Learning. Dr. Christy Alarcon, of Maricopa Center of Learning and Instruction for the Maricopa Community College District, spoke about different ways to get students engaged into the classroom. One of the tools she talked about was Flickr Poet. With Flickr Poet, you put words into a [...]
Friday September 10, will be MATEC NetWorks Free webinar: Best Practices in Distance Learning. Distance Learning provides a viable alternative to face-to-face instruction. Increase student involvement, retention, and success by engaging them online with proven tips and strategies of teaching in a distance learning environment. Join Dr. Christy Alarcon from Maricopa Community College District and I [...]
Tom McGlew, project manager for eSyst, just got off the phone with a major textbook publisher. The publisher had received a phone call from a major US company that employees more than two hundred thousand people. The conversation went something like this: We can no longer have you teach from the components level. We need [...]
So how big is eSyst? Three years ago when the eSyst grant was awarded by the NSF, almost no programs in the United States were system based. There were a few out there, oasis in the desert, but you could count them on two hands. When project manager Tom McGlew and the eSyst team of [...]
If you missed the webinar Leveraging Social Learning Tools: Social Tools for Student Success, with Karl Kapp, you can view the recording and see the slides over at the MATEC NetWorks digital library. Just do a keyword search Kapp Webinar (or Slides) Social Learning. Or just do Kapp to view all the webinars and slides [...]
How many times has a lightbulb gone on for a student when the math they are learning, is used in a real-world situation, and they finally get why the math is important? And how many times are students taught the math, but not taught how it could be possibly be used. I think the old [...]
For-Profit Colleges should be a wake up call for Community Colleges. The GOA has been investigating for-profit colleges. What they found was appalling to me. It should be to everyone in the community college system. Students want to go to community colleges, it is just that the level of service, class cancellations or no classes [...]
The last installment of our @matec newsletter article ”Education Challenges in the 21st Century”, inspired by Cathleen Barton’s presentation at the HI-TEC 2009 event, focuses on the Common Core State Standard Initiative. The initiative is a significant and historic opportunities for states to collectively develop and adopt a core set of academic standards in mathematics and [...]
Food is always a glorious subject to write about. But, have you wondered why nanotechnologist are so interested in food? Have you ever wondered what nano products are put into food and why? This Thursday is a wonderful opportunity to find out all about the science of food and nanotechnology, and how nanotechnology is helping [...]
One of our colleagues on the eSyst development team and instructor of electronics engineering, Bassam Matar, has been awarded one of EE Times ACE Awards for Educator of the Year! Below is some of the announcement Bassam recieved: Congratulations! You were nominated and selected as the 2010 EE Times ACE Award Educator of the Year. [...]
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