Bucknell integrates TurnItIn’s "originality checking" service into our Moodle installation. If a faculty member adds a "TurnItIn Assignment" to a course, student submissions to that assignment are checked against TurnItIn’s database of previously submitted work and of documents submitted toRead More
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Innovative Uses of 3D Printers
As we have mentioned in past posts (for example, ITEC’s 3D Printer and Replicator 2 Orientation ), ITEC owns a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer. The MakerBot Replicator 2 turns three-dimensional designs into actual physical objects, composed of plastic filamentRead More
An Assessment Primer – the Black Box Metaphor
In science and math, a "black box" problem is one in which you can see the inputs and the outputs from a closed system, but you do not know what is going on inside the system. You can infer whatRead More
What is KINBER, and What Could it Mean for You?
stands for The Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education and Research. Formed in 2010 as a result of a $99.6 million grant from The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA), KINBER is a non-profit corporation that oversaw the installation ofRead More
Pedagogical Advice for Using Clickers Successfully
Clickers or audience response systems are used to increase student engagement in a course and – when partnered with peer-teaching techniques – to improve student retention of course content and overall student learning. Like other instructional technologies, however, clickers canRead More
Zotero
Zotero is a free citation manager from the Center for History and New Media. Zotero makes it easy to capture bibliographic records of your research sources, store them in a database for future retrieval, share them with others, and generate bibliographies,Read More