http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/ The latest from CCNMTL. http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/web/images/slce_logo.gif http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/ 144 58 en Copyright 2013 Tue, 28 May 2013 11:35:07 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Summer 2013 version of Mediathread, CCNMTL’s platform for exploration and examination of web-based multimedia content, has officially been released! The newest version of the open-source platform features re-ordering of instructor compositions in the "From Your Instructor" column; creation of... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/dive-in-mediathread-summer-2013-release-is-here.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/dive-in-mediathread-summer-2013-release-is-here.html Tue, 28 May 2013 11:35:07 -0500 Catherine Crowley is an expert in speech-language pathology. Crowley, a distinguished senior lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University, focuses particularly on children and adolescents who are bilingual or multicultural and has travelled the world to spread her knowledge. But Crowley... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/new-speech-pathology-site.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/new-speech-pathology-site.html Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:56 -0500 This spring, Columbia Chief Digital Officer Sree Sreenivasan and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) sponsored a speaker series at Columbia University featuring innovators in the fields of technology and higher ed. Videos of the two... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/videos-jeffrey-selingo-and-candace-thille.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/videos-jeffrey-selingo-and-candace-thille.html Wed, 22 May 2013 10:07:24 -0500 Candace Thille, Director of the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, will present a talk about her work at OLI at Columbia University on May 14. The talk will take place at 3:00pm in 203 Butler Library. The... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/candace-thille-director-to-speak-at-columbia-may-14.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/candace-thille-director-to-speak-at-columbia-may-14.html Tue, 07 May 2013 16:02:10 -0500 This spring, New York City students and teachers will head to the forest to encounter mammals - and science lessons - in their natural habitat, thanks to an initiative of the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL)... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/with-virtual-forest-initiative-nyc-students-become-citizen-scientists-with-virtual-forest-initiative.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/with-virtual-forest-initiative-nyc-students-become-citizen-scientists-with-virtual-forest-initiative.html Thu, 02 May 2013 10:46:42 -0500 Jeffrey Selingo, an author, reporter, and editor at large of The Chronicle of Higher Education, will present a talk on the future of higher education at Columbia University on May 8. The talk will take place at 4:00pm in... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/jeffrey-selingo-to-speak-at-columbia-may-8.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/jeffrey-selingo-to-speak-at-columbia-may-8.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:57:41 -0500 "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!" Remember that old joke from grammar school? It’s ridiculous but it's certainly an accurate way to describe how daunting the task of producing a web-based educational experience can be.... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/enhanced/noted/how_to_design_an_educational_user_experience.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/enhanced/noted/how_to_design_an_educational_user_experience.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:49:44 -0500 The Silfen Forum at UPenn, held yearly at the Irvine Auditorium, featured a distinguished panel discussing “Open Online Learning and the Future of Higher Education.” The event coincided with the Coursera Partners' Conference, which added to the level of interest... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/enhanced/noted/silfen_forum_open_learning.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/enhanced/noted/silfen_forum_open_learning.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:19:19 -0500 The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) is partnering with the Jewish Theological Seminary’s Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, and Yeshiva University to offer an inter-institutional eLearning Faculty... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/press-releases/ccnmtl-to-collaborate-with-jewish-higher-ed-institutions.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/press-releases/ccnmtl-to-collaborate-with-jewish-higher-ed-institutions.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:07:16 -0500 CCNMTL is offering four Courseworks workshops to help Columbia faculty and instructors manage their courses as the Spring semester wraps up. A new workshop, “Courseworks (Sakai): End of Semester,” will focus on grading, assignment feedback, evaluating analytics, and preparing/migrating course... http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/late-spring-13-courseworks-workshops.html http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/news/announcements/late-spring-13-courseworks-workshops.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:42:19 -0500