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Transforming Teaching Through Technology
Transforming Teaching Through Technology
Recently I had the opportunity to prepare a short video for McGraw-Hill Education on how education technologies, in this case, adaptive learning platforms, were able to transform a general education learning environment.
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Human Biology - Fifteenth Edition
Recently, the latest edition of Dr. Sylvia Mader’s Human Biology text was published by McGraw-Hill Education. As the lead author on this text, and the managing author for the series, I wanted to let you know of some of the changes that you may see in this text. While this text is one of the longest-running textbooks in the industry (it was the first text dedicated to human biology for non-science…
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Essentials of Biology - Fifth Edition
I am very happy to announce the release of the latest edition of the Mader/Windelspecht text, Essentials of Biology. As an author, this text has always been important to me, not only because it was one of the first texts I worked on for McGraw-Hill education, but because of its increasingly importance in environment of science education role in pushing the boundaries of textbook publishing. More…
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Using Connect and SmartBook in a Non-Majors Biology Course
As an instructor, I have been using digital resources in my classes for years. As many of you already know from my presentations and campus visits, I am not only an author, but also a consultant to McGraw-Hill Education. One of my roles in this capacity is to help instructors effectively implement digital resources into their classes. Recently I was asked to design a complete Connect course for…
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Virtual Event: Getting Inside the Minds of Students
Virtual Event: Getting Inside the Minds of Students
Thanks to everyone who attended the McGraw-Hill Virtual Event: Digital Tools in the Modern Classroom and my talk “How Data Lets Us Get Inside the Minds of Students”. As a I promised during the event, here is some additional information, background information, and links:
Abstract
Students don’t know what they don’t know. This has implications across the entire learning ecosystem. From the…
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How Data is Changing Content Development
How Data is Changing Content Development
For my upcoming presentation at Learning Solutions 2016, I am going to be exploring how data is altering the way that content is being developed for the higher education content market, and examining how this generally relates to content generation for any learning population. In this article, I want to give a little bit of background information on the approach that I am using and some of the…
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Transformative Teaching: A Virtual Event
Transformative Teaching: A Virtual Event
On February 26th I will be in NYC to participate in the McGraw-Hill Education event: Transformative Teaching.The meeting will explore how adaptive learning is transforming the educational ecosystem, from the classroom, to instructors and then onto the student. I have two sessions scheduled for that day:
12pm: Inside the Minds of Students: Data Driven Teaching and Learning. This will be an…
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Inquiry Into Life - 15th Edition
Inquiry Into Life – 15th Edition
I am very pleased to announce the release of the latest edition of Inquiry Into Life (15th edition). This is my 9th book in the Mader/Windelspecht series that I have served as the lead author, and the 22nd book that I have authored or edited since I first began my journey as a science author.
This was an exceptionally important project for me, not only because I had the opportunity to work on…
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How to Get Ebola, Cancer, and 5-Hour Energy Drinks Into Your Classroom
How to Get Ebola, Cancer, and 5-Hour Energy Drinks Into Your Classroom
” I don’t get science”….. “Biology isn’t my thing”…. If you are a science teacher, you have heard these statements and others like them many times before – especially if you teach general science education classes. But the truth is, today’s students are exposed to more science and technology then at any other point in history, and many of their future careers will require that they have a…
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Royal Society of Biology Book Awards
Royal Society of Biology Book Awards
Human Biology was one of the first texts that I worked on for McGraw-Hill. I started as a coauthor on the 12th edition of the text, and since then have been the lead author for 3 editions, with the 15th edition currently in development.
As an educator, one of my main goals for this text has always been to keep it current, relevant, and useful for students. That is why I was very pleased to find…
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DevLearn 2015: Getting Inside the Minds of Students
DevLearn 2015: Getting Inside the Minds of Students
Students don’t know what they don’t know. This one simple fact has been one of the biggest obstacles in the reform of any learning ecosystem. If we are going to truly change the education ecosystem, we have to be able to not only get inside the minds of our students, but also generate the data that allows us to make informed decisions on the types of learning resources and content that we need to…
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My Science FlipBoard Magazines
It is the night before the class, and you are looking for articles for your 8am science course. You need something that is not only relevant, but also at the appropriate level for a intro science class. A Google search reveals a million hits, and a Twitter hashtag search produces the usual gibberish of results. Lucky for you – I have developed a series of four FlipBoard magazines that contain…
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Buzzwords, Data and the Adaptive Learning Summit
Buzzwords, Data and the Adaptive Learning Summit
“Advancing Innovations in Adaptive Learning” – that tag line alone explains why I attended the National Education Initiative’s Adaptive Learning Summit in Washington DC a few weeks ago. As a subject matter expert for McGraw-Hill, I have been involved with adaptive learning for a long time, and my companyhas had a number of contracts to build learning resources for adaptive learning platforms.…
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Our Summer of Science Communication
Our Summer of Science Communication
Each summer we take on a few students, both from the local high school and a few college interns, and introduce them to the rapidly evolving world of science communication. This is probably one of the most enjoyable aspects of my job at Ricochet Creative Productions. Science education is my passion and I have spent most of my career trying to have people see the relevancy of science to their…
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Microlearning and LearningInteractives.com Our latest project at Ricochet Creative Productions has been to branch out into the field of microlearning.
Interview: Publishing Opportunities for Educators
Interview: Publishing Opportunities for Educators
The changes in the publishing world, specifically with the rapid evolution of cloud-based authoring platforms and education apps, is providing a wealth of new opportunities for academics who wish to get published.
I recently had the chance to serve on a panel of educators for a Google Hangout event where we discussed some of the avenues by which the panelists published their first books. As a…
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