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The Ultimate Guide to Snapchatting in the Classroom
You’ve heard of Snapchat as a social-media app for personal use, but what about using Snapchat for education? Click here to learn more about how teachers and students can use Snapchat as a tool for enhancing and modernizing education.
An Essential Guide to Videos for a Flipped Classroom
Since 2007, flipped classrooms have gradually risen in popularity as a mode of education throughout the country. Students and teachers alike have embraced the concept of maximizing class time with an instructor to work with and understand new concepts as opposed…
Is a Video Worth 1,000 Words? [INFOGRAPHIC]
YouTube is one of the most commonly used search engines. Users often think of it in the context of viral videos or do-it-yourself tutorials, but in addition to this, it contains a wealth of valuable and information information. Due to…
Rubrics for Assignments in Online Courses
An important aspect of an online course is grading assignments and providing feedback. This is especially true in an asynchronous course where there is no real-time interaction between the instructors and students. Click to learn about how rubrics can enhance your online course.
How Polls Can Enhance Your Classroom
Instructors always want to know what their students are thinking. Unfortunately, this important information often comes too late to create a noticeable impact in the course. Distributing a poll is a solution to this problem.
Open Source Textbooks [INFOGRAPHIC]
Imagine thousands of students acquiring digital versions of their college textbooks. Imagine that each textbook was tailored to precisely suit the exact needs of each course. Now imagine that those textbooks are free.
Video Animation in an Online Course
Animation can be an appealing and advantageous supplement in an online classroom. Learn its benefit and how to create your own animated videos.
How to Start Curating Content
Do you spend ages on the web gathering resources for class but have no way to organize them effectively?
Learn how to easily curate information so that it can be easily navigated and shared with students.
6 Ways to Use PDF Converter in Online Classes
PDF conversion tools can help both educators and students present and share their assignments, reports and projects in a universal format that can be viewed on any device without needing to install the native application used for creating the original documents.
Here are six ways online learners and teachers can use PDF converters in online education.