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Open Education & Technology

Open education, also called open digital pedagogy, has been defined as โ€œthe use of cost-free, publicly available online tools and platforms by instructors and students for teaching, learning, and communicating… and equip students to actively participate in their educationโ€ (Rosen and Smale, 2015).ย  A core tenet of open education is the use of open educational …

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Incorporating Cultural Content in the Language Classroom

Many language instructors enter the classroom for the first time without knowledge of language acquisition principles. They are often asked to design their classes based on a textbook that doesn’t speak to students’ experiences and fails to appeal directly to them. New instructors often feel pressured to teach following a grammar-oriented approach that seems to …

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Museum Pedagogy

Over the past generation, museums have undergone an enormous transition. No longer simply repositories of artifacts and authority, they are now, as the Smithsonianโ€™s Stephen E. Weil once described, โ€œa place for somebody.” As museums have moved toward a visitor-centered approach, their education departments have professionalized and developed a series of techniques designed to engage …

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