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Pedagogy and the iPad
by John J. Doherty and Kevin Ketchner Perhaps the hardest part of owning an iPad is trying to avoid the addictive world of Angry Birds, the favorite game app of the new British Prime Minister. For just...
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Rethinking Your Course with Student Learning in Mind
by Dr. Sue Pieper, Coordinator of Assessment It’s official! During this year, Northern Arizona University will be moving to a new learning management system, Blackboard Learn. As you move your courses...
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On the Horizon
by John Doherty and Lorraine B. Elder The annual Horizon Report, published by the New Media Consortium (NMC), describes educational technologies that are ripe for adoption in the coming year, the next...
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Teaching Students How to Learn
by Dr. Sue Pieper, Coordinator of Assessment An Inside Higher Ed article titled “Can Students Learn to Learn?” piqued my long-standing interest in students and metacognition. As a teacher of writing...
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Posters and Slides from the 2011 Blackboard World Conference
At the Blackboard World conference in July 2011, several of the e-Learning Center’s staff, along with other Northern Arizona University colleagues, gave poster sessions or presentations that were well...
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Helping Students to Succeed
by Dr. Sue Pieper, Coordinator of Assessment With more students struggling academically, particularly in the first year, and fewer students persisting to graduation, many of us in higher education are...
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We’re hiring, and here’s how to get the job
by Lorraine B. Elder and Larry MacPhee, Associate Directors We’re looking for an instructional technologist. Details about the job are available at NAU’s Human Resources web site. [UPDATE: The job...
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Designing Rubrics That Work
by Dr. Suzanne L. Pieper, Coordinator of Assessment An essay by Vincent Tinto in Inside Higher Ed reminds us that college success is built “one class and one course at a time.” Tinto further points out...
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Textbooks of the Near Future
by Larry MacPhee, Associate Director When I went to college, back in the 1980s, each of my new hardcover textbooks weighed over 5 pounds and cost over $100.00. Cheaper used and softcover texts weren’t...
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Reflections on teaching and learning reflection
by Dr. Sue Pieper, Coordinator of Assessment I recently read A Life in Bits and Bytes: A Portrait of a College Student and Her Life With Digital Media. The article portrayed a college student who, like...
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