The 21st century replacement for pen and paper is finely here – the tablet. University are developing software and teaching methods that take advantage of the tablet PC’s unique capabilities. Tablets in teaching is not new. It’s caught on in the medical professions where doctors use them to take notes and update patient charts. But […]
Continue reading →“There are many challenges in higher education environments, particularly engineering education in a multicultural society. Some of these include the effective communication of difficult mathematical concepts maintaining students’ attention span, the difficulties of catering for individual student needs in a large classroom environment, different paces of student learning, and lack of fluency in written English […]
Continue reading →During the “break” between summer and fall terms we upgraded Blackboard to the latest release. Our motivation was that we will be migrating to a new hosting environment in December and wanted to have any changes in the application itself occur separately from the migration. Separating the changes will make it easier for us to […]
Continue reading →Merged courses in Blackboard are a convenient time saver. But depending on when we merge the course, the groups we create for the sections don’t always reflect the final enrollments. During Add/Drop period students switch sections and unfortunately while Blackboard can figure out which courses they belong in, the groups we create in each merged […]
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