Category Archives: Online Learning

Summary of Stanford’s Tomorrow’s Professor post “Conflicted Views of Technology: A Survey of Faculty Attitudes”

A 2018 article from Inside Higher Ed summarizes the findings of academic perception of online teaching modalities and technologies. It was recently featured in Tomorrow’s Professor. The key message in the article was that despite growing acceptance, wide-spread use, and perceived efficacy by early adopters much of the academic discipline still distrusts the use of

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Two little known software gems available at University of Alberta

Respondus & StudyMate are two pieces of software centrally supported by IST, available for all instructors and staff at the University of Alberta via Google Drive. The campus version of Respondus has been customized to facilitate the link between Respondus and eClass. These two apps, Respondus and StudyMate, only run on Windows; however, both are

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