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You can use Moodle quiz to set up assessments that are automatically graded, create simple tutorials that provice students with hints and immediate feedback on their responses, and/or have students work on a particular problem until they solve it successfully. The video below is a quick, easy tutorial on creating multiple choice quizzes in Moodle, including an explanation of some of the quiz settings.
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Moodle's flashcard activity is basically what it sounds like -- a set of virtual "cards" with materials on both "sides" that students can use to drill on different subjects. While Quizlet's flashcards are a bit cleaner and less clunky, the Moodle version has the obvious benefit of Moodle compatibility, including the option to track performance. Brainscape suggests five guidelines...
Flowboard is a vertically integrated iPad presentation tool which allows users to create presentations based on "screens" and incorporate interactivity. Screens are created using basic touch gestures, and completed Flowboards can be shared via URL to iPads and on the web. Flowboard allows for more interactivity than a traditional Powerpoint-esque presentation, and is designed for more individualized used than, for example, Prezi. The downside, of...
OpenClass bills itself as a "dynamic, scalable, fully-cloud based learning environment" which is, all its other perks and potential benefits aside, completely free. The basic concept behind OpenClass is to provide a free Learning Management System to manage courses. Towards that end, it can important your existing content from other LMS programs like Blackboard and Moodle. In this capacity, it has many of the features we've come to expect - a mechanism for submitting assignments, gradebook functionality...
The MOOC Moment is a series of articles compiled by Insider Higher Ed about MOOCs and their possible impact on higher education. Rather than simply considering the present state of MOOCs, the booklet presents an overview of trends and developments in massive open online courses. It also includes opinion pieces from experts looking forward and evaluating the future of MOOCs both in terms of financial efficacy and educational effectiveness. The booklet is accompanied by a free recorded webinar...
Of course, there are plenty of people (and many educators among them) who believe that Twitter is hastening the demise of the written word. Others simply insist that it's confusing (for which there is a simple solution). On the other hand, Twitter is simply a technology that allows one person to quickly share short (140-character) messages with others and there are situations in which this type of sharing can assist teaching and promote learning. The resource attached is adapted from...
For Better for Verse is the University of Virginia's digital, interactive tool for learning to scan metered poetry. Users can select a poem based on alphabetical order, difficulty level, or verse type. It includes a hotlinked Glossary of relevant terms and a Help tab which provide easy access to introductory blurbs.
Coursera is not a university itself, but an education company which partners with educational organizations and university. Their course offerings include the Humanities, Social Sciences, STEM topics, Medicine, and Business. The courses are structured around video lectures and basic tracking questions. Their pedagogy is focused on mastery learning and peer assessments.
Hot Potatoes is a free program available for download. It is not open-source, but it is freeware that can be used for any project. The program is actually a suite of six programs which instructors can use to generate short-answer questions, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. While some of those question types may not be useful to instructors in higher education, Hot Potatoes FAQ section includes tutorials on writing...
Hosted by Dickinson College, the Mixxer is a free educational site for language acqusition and learning. Mixxer relies on connecting language learners from around the world so that people can learn collaboratively from each other. Teachers can set up virtual classrooms where students can create group posts for other students and the instructor to review.
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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