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Future Proofing Your Video Platform: A Cautionary Tale About Obsolescence

Edsurge

Famous failures abound: Blackberry remained committed to the physical keyboard as its competitors leapfrogged them with smartphones and mobile apps. CIOs that recognize this shift in student behavior can empower instructors to teach in more flexible and interesting ways without extra training, cost, or angst.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.

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Five Ways to Engage Students outside of the Online Classroom

Faculty Focus

For example, in a political science class, students might find a community activist, someone who is ideally active in a topic that is interesting to the students, and talk to them about what it’s like to be a community activist, how they got started, what they do to create action, how to be an activist, and questions of that sort.