Tablets and iPads at SHTM!

At the School of Hotel & Tourism Management (SHTM) this semester we took a new direction for HTM 2315 Principles of Food Service Production.  We wanted to teach on a more interactive level with newer technologies such as Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.  The class operates with one mass lecture taught via notebook and iPad. For iPad usage we use a variety of applications...

What we’re Learning from Online Ed...

Stanford Professor and co-founder of Coursera, Daphne Koller, sheds light on the impact that free online education has on learners and instructors by moving away from traditional teaching practices of face to face lectures to more online active...

Active Learning with Clickers in APSS

Applied Psychology and Social Science (APSS) lecturers, Kevin Chan and Indie Chung,  are breaking new ground with making big lectures engaging and interactive. They are using “Clickers”, otherwise known as Personal Response Systems (PRS), to get students to respond to questions in class. Students may use their own mobile devices such as smart phones or tablets or can be provided...