The New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have jointly released the NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition. This 13th edition
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New Blackboard Portfolio Tool: Upgraded Features are Easy to Use
Throughout the summer and fall, the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center team has been busy working on implementation of the new Blackboard Portfolio tool
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Blackboard Learn Upgrade: Memorial Day Weekend 2015
A significant upgrade is scheduled to be performed to the Blackboard Learn System over Memorial Day weekend. The upgrade will begin at 5:00 AM on
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Upgrade Details for TurningPoint Cloud
This is the second of two announcements about the upgrade the TurningPoint, which is currently planned for the Memorial Day weekend. Registering a Turning Technologies
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TurningPoint Cloud to replace TurningPoint 5.3
TurningPoint is the desktop software used by faculty as part of the student response system (SRS), or “clickers”, to receive immediate feedback from students in
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Developing and Posting Recorded Lectures with Adobe Presenter
When preparing to teach online, one should consider how a myriad of face-to-face activities might be reconfigured. For example, in a face-to-face setting, lecturing is
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New Blackboard Features Coming in May
This year’s update to Blackboard is smaller than some years, but it still has a big impact on teaching and learning. The update (planned to occur
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New Clicker Device on Campus
In Spring 2015, Turning Technologies began selling a new student response system device, their “QT” model. This QT device replaces the previous NXT model that
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Trends in Blackboard Tool Usage at NIU
Blackboard Learn, the course management system utiilized by Northern Illinois University faculty, staff, teaching assistants, and students, continues to be an important platform for facilitating
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Helix Media Library: A Secure Solution for Uploading and Sharing Video
A useful new tool for securely sharing video online is now available to the NIU community, the Helix Media Library (HML). The HML is an on-campus
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How to Go Beyond the Textbook Using Open Educational Resources
Almost 30 participants braved the extremely cold weather on January 10, 2014 for the afternoon session of the second day of the Spring Teaching Effectiveness Institute
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Blackboard Video Everywhere: Increasing Faculty and Student Communication
It is increasingly important to engage students and foster a sense of community and connection between students and faculty. This is true in all courses,
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