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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Explorations in Learning & Instruction:

The Theory Into Practice Database

Welcome to the Theory Into Practice (TIP) database. TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summarizes of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

Copyright 1994 Greg Kearsley (kearsley@gwuvm.gwu.edu)

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Grants for Teaching, Teaching Strategies & Disciplinary Resrouces, Multicultural Teaching, Instructional Technology, Evaluation & Research.

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Now accepting applications for the 2020 May Preparing Future Faculty Seminar
January 30, 2020

Are you interested in a faculty career after graduation, but aren't quite sure how to get started? "Preparing Future Faculty" (PFF) can help. This month-long seminar offered by CRLT Read more

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ThingLink: Create unique experiences with interactive images, videos & 360° media

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5+ Ways to Use ThingLink for Teaching & Learning

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ThingLink is a free and user friendly digital tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an interactive graphic. Create multiple "hot spots" on specific parts of an image and turn that image into a multimedia launcher. Include video, record audio or provide a link to any website with the click of a button. Easily embed an interactive ThingLink graphic into any blog or website. ThingLink is a truly amazing tool that allows users to pack a lot of content into a small space.

My Journey with ThingLink

As someone who is actively engaged in the never-ending search for free and user friendly digital tools, I was thrilled to discover ThingLink. I immediately fell in love with the tool because of its versatility and ease of use. Since discovering ThingLink, it has become one of my most frequently used tools with teachers and students throughout the school day, as well as for and professional development. I just can't get enough of this tool!

Ways to Use ThingLink for Teaching and Learning

Once you experiment with ThingLink I'm sure you will come up with many ways to use it for teaching and learning. Here are some ideas and interactive examples to get you started.

1. Use ThingLink as a Multimedia Curriculum Launcher

ThingLink provides teachers with opportunities to design multimedia rich student driven learning experiences that offer flexible learning paths to meet the diverse learning needs of all students. A ThingLink graphic can provide students with background knowledge and opportunities for challenge all in one place. To make sure students are accountable for learning, use an Essential Question or scavenger hunt to guide the learning.

2. Use ThingLink to Introduce a Technology Tool

Using an interactive graphic to introduce new technology to a group of teachers or students can be a very effective and appealing to those who are hesitant to learn to use new technology. The ability to pack a large amount of multimedia content into one graphic and the addition of colored nubbins to the ThingLink features provides a way to differentiate instruction visually, allowing teachers and students to explore areas of interest.

3. Use Thinglink for Professional Development

A ThingLink graphic packed with resources and combined with sufficient time for constructive play is an excellent way to introduce a new technology tool to teachers Include video tutorials, written directions, links to examples and podcasts to provide participants with all the resources they need in one easily accessible and compact graphic.

4. Use ThingLink to Publish Student Work

Students who create and publish for an audience are likely to do their best and most careful work. Why not promote your program and provide visitors with a peek into your classroom by using ThingLink to regularly publish student work? Do remember to protect student identities when publishing their work on the Internet.

5. Use ThingLink to Create Interactive Student Reports

Students today should have plenty of opportunities to engage in research. It's a good idea to occasionally offer alternatives to the traditional written research report. Use ThingLink to let students create interactive, multimedia reports that utilize their personal strengths.

More Ways to Use ThingLink

For more ideas on ways to use ThingLink, please view Donna Baumbach's collaborative Google Presentation, Ways to Use ThingLink in the Classroom, and consider contributing your own content.

I hope this post inspires you to try ThingLink for yourself. Consider creating something simple and fun the first time you try it so you can focus on using the tool without getting bogged down by content. Additional resources and directions can be found on the ThingLink graphic at the top of this post.

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Keep everything in the same place-even if your team isn't.

Trello 101

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Simple, flexible, and powerful. All it takes are boards, lists, and cards to get a clear view of who's doing what and what needs to get done. Learn more in our guide for getting started.

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Trello boards keep tasks organized and work moving forward. In a glance, see everything from "things to do" to "aww yeah, we did it!"

Lists

The different stages of a task. Start as simple as To Do, Doing or Done-or build a workflow custom fit to your team's needs. There's no wrong way to Trello.

Cards

Cards represent tasks and ideas and hold all the information to get the job done. As you make progress, move cards across lists to show their status.

Boards

Trello boards keep tasks organized and work moving forward. In a glance, see everything from "things to do" to "aww yeah, we did it!"

Lists

The different stages of a task. Start as simple as To Do, Doing or Done-or build a workflow custom fit to your team's needs. There's no wrong way to Trello.

Cards

Cards represent tasks and ideas and hold all the information to get the job done. As you make progress, move cards across lists to show their status.

Trello in action

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Powerful ways to grow

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It's no secret that I am a passionate advocate for using video in the classroom. When used well, videos can help students make connections to people and ideas beyond their usual frame of reference. That's why I've been really excited to see a wave of new (and mostly free or low-cost!) tech tools recently that enable teachers to take favorite clips and make them more valuable for educational use. Whether you use videos to flip your classroom or you just appreciate the power of video to engage kids, maybe one of the tools in my playlist below will help you go deeper this school year.

Video Playlist: Tools to Enhance Videos for Learning

You may notice my playlist below looks a little different this time; I'm embedding using a great tool called Huzzaz, reviewed below. Watch the player below to see the whole playlist, or you can still view it on YouTube.

1. TED-Ed Website Tour (03:08)
Most educators know TED-Ed publishes amazing animations, but did you know their platform allows users to build lessons by adding questions and notes to any video on YouTube? The elegant interface allows your students to watch and then dig deeper into resources you've provided, via a unique URL that allows you to track their responses. See an example.

2. How to Use Vialogues (04:54)
If you'd like to have a discussion around a particular video, Vialogues is a useful way to allow threaded conversations on a clip. You can also add surveys and open-ended questions with this tool, which was developed by the EdLab at Columbia University Teachers College. See an example.

3. Using Metta.io (05:04)
Wanting to string a few videos together and add text and graphics overlays? Metta is the tool for you -- although it had one of the more confusing interfaces on the list. Still, it's unique from the others in that it's creating less of a wrapper than a whole new media experience, a mashup -- for some applications, this could be amazing. See an example.

4. VideoNot.es: Improving How We Learn with Online Video (04:00)
VideoNot.es is an app that allows you to take live time-coded notes on any video, and skip around by clicking on those notes -- and even better, it's integrated with Google Drive so saving and syncing your notes is simple. You have to install it to see this example.

5. How to Create a PlayPosit Lesson (05:39)
With teacher favorite Zaption no longer available, Playposit (formerly EduCanon) has emerged as a great to to allow you to supplement a chosen video with all manner of add-ons to make it more interactive, from "reflective pauses" to audio clips to multiple-choice questions. You can also track responses with this tool.

6. Huzzaz (02:34)
Huzzaz is about discovery and curation of videos -- it's an easy way to collect, sort, and take notes on your playlists, from both YouTube and Vimeo. If you love gathering videos on themes, you'll find this tool very powerful. Or, have your students curate playlists on choice topics! See an example.

More Resources on Using Video in the Classroom

I'd hazard a guess that the popularity of the flipped classroom idea is one of the drivers of this renaissance of tools to make videos more flexible and useful for teachers, but any teacher could find a way to use this kind of functionality to add value for learners. Below, I've listed some more detailed reviews of the tools above, as well as a few more resources for both finding and using great video in the classroom. I hope my enthusiasm has encouraged you to jump in and play with a few of these tools! And if you have other ways of supplementing or enhancing videos you use, I'd love to hear about those in the comments.

Reviews and Guides for Interactive Video Tools

"A Step by Step Tutorial on How to Flip your Classroom with TED Ed," from Education Technology and Mobile Learning

"Vialogues: Videos + Dialogues Promoting Communication and Critical Thinking," from Web 2.0 Teaching Tools

"Create Digital Learning Content By Easily Combining Parts of One or More Videos with Images, Text, and Audio Using Metta," by Tom Raymond, from EmergingEdTech

"VideoNot.es: Note Taking For Flipped Classroom," by Shaun Takenouchi, from K12 Tech Info

"Turn YouTube into a Classroom with eduCanon," by Jennifer Gonzalez, from Cult of Pedagogy

"Huzzaz Makes it Easy to Create and Share Online Video Collections," by Kimberlee Morrison, from SocialTimes

"The 10 Best Web Tools For Flipped Classrooms," by Jeff Dunn, from Edudemic

"5 Digital Tools For The Flipped Classroom," from TeachThought

Sources and Ideas for Using Videos in the Classroom

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Popplet is the simplest tool to capture and organize your ideas. With Popplet you can quick jot down your ideas and sort them visually.

Apple has featured us in "Tools for Teachers", "New and Noteworthy", "What's Hot" and "Get Stuff Done"

Popplet is great for school and for learning in the classroom and at home. Students use Popplet to think and learn visually. By capturing facts, thoughts, and images, students learn to create relationships between them and generate new ideas.

Popplet is also great for work and for generating ideas in the office or on the go. Professionals use Popplet to generate ideas and plan projects. By brainstorming visually or jotting down notes, Popplet helps professionals organize their thoughts and generate their next big idea.

With this version of Popplet you can have as many Popplet boards as you would like on your iPhone or iPad.
People use Popplet to:

+ Study: School Projects, Class Notes
+ Explore Ideas: Brainstorming, Mindmapping
+ Plan Projects: Diagrams, Process Charts
+ Collect Inspiration: Mood Boards, Scrapbook, Travel Plans

Key Features:

+ Unlimited local boards
+ Capture notes in text
+ Capture notes with images
+ Capture notes with a drawing tool
+ Change the color of your notes and Popplet board
+ Link notes to each other visually
+ Export as PDF as JPEG
+ Pinch to zoom and expand
+ Multi Language Support
+ See the Popplet boards of other users through the 'Public' tab to get inspired

These are additional features if you sign-up and create an 'online' account:

+ 10 free 'online' boards accessible through a web browser at www.popplet.com
+ Ability to collaborate with other Popplet users on your online boards

We are committed to continually improving and updating Popplet and would love to hear what you think. Come visit us at www.popplet.com or email us at support@popplet.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at @poppletny!

NOTE - UPGRADING FROM POPPLET LITE : If you are upgrading from Popplet Lite, you can transfer your Popplet by choosing "Select All" from the gear menu and then "Copy". Then switch to Popplet (the full version) and select "Paste" from the gear menu.

Version 2.5.1

Handwriting experience is bad

On 11" iPad pro the handwriting recognition is bad with Apple pencil. Please fix it.

Wonderful app, two suggestions

I have been using Popplet for I believe a year now consistently. I have created dozens and dozens of files for when I have ideas and it has been great for documenting them. I love how you can connect bubbles easily. My only addition would be to please add more colors! So often I have found myself wanting more than the 7 colors for the bubbles (which include black and grey) and have consistently thought that there should be more. Please add more colors for the bubbles! Also, it would be nice to drag a square to select popplets rather than tapping them with two fingers. If you mess up it deletes all your selections and honestly it is frustrating if you don't do it perfectly each time!

Thanks
Jonathan

Extremely helpful and simple

Popplet is actually a really cool tool that seems to simple to be useful. Once you use it, however, it is one of those things that becomes indispensable because you get hooked on it. Improvements these days are marginal but it is still very useful.

The developer, Notion, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

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Mac

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Family Sharing

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Benefits of Bubbl.us mind maps over text:

Superior clarity of structured information

Whether it's a family tree, a decision flow map, or an algorithm, mind maps have a huge advantage in presenting complexity clearly and concisely.

Better retention of complex ideas.

Visualizing complex ideas in shapes, lines, and pictures leads to much better recollection later than simple text.

Creative collaboration with others.

Visual brainstorming with a team can dramatically improve the quality of the final product because of diversity of perspectives and experiences.

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The Shift from Engaging Students to Empowering Learners

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The Shift from Engaging Students to Empowering Learners

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Preparing nursing students for the future: An innovative approach to clinical education

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Preparing nursing students for the future: An innovative approach to clinical education

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By Bruce Tulgan

How does anyone learn faster than the accelerating obsolescence curve nowadays? "Just in time," of course, fueled by the latest and greatest technology:

Search engines and menu-driven information systems allow anyone to find multiple answers from multiple sources in a heartbeat.

Shared work product libraries allow users to avoid reinventing the wheel by accessing past high-quality work product, which can be tapped for quick learning, as well as lifted and reused to jump-start similar projects.

Wiki technology is the ultimate collaboration facilitator by enabling different individuals to contribute to a work product from anywhere any time.

Social networking allows anyone to build mutually rewarding relationships with people of similar interests-inside the company or out.

Instant messaging means anyone can ask anyone they "know" anything at any time.

Simulation tools allow for low-stakes, high-frequency experience acquisition and technique practice of nearly any skill or performance environment.

Push technology allows for reminders and reinforcement to be sent to learners on any schedule ad infinitum.

While patient learning may be a fast-disappearing luxury, our research shows that just-in-time learning cultivates a different kind of deep knowledge: diversity of exposure, multiple skill sets across disciplines, and the ability to learn quickly. People learn well and fast when they need to learn-when they encounter specific skill or knowledge gaps that prevent them from completing a task or achieving a desired tangible result. If a training tool anticipates the learner's real-world skill and knowledge gaps and makes the right information easily available to fill those gaps as needed, it's just in time.

For more information, contact: www.rainmakerthinking.com/blog; Twitter @brucetulgan; http://www.talkaboutthework.com; brucet@rainmakerthinking.com

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1. Enter your crossword words and clues in the form below OR choose a premade word list (just below the instructions box) OR use the Quick Add Box to create your crossword clues and answers with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

2. Click the large green "Make Crossword Puzzle" button near the bottom of the form to make your free custom puzzle quickly.

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Here are 156 free nursing games with some 6,000 questions designed to make your nurse learning / education more interesting, engaging and fun! In this section we have developed, and are experimenting with, different kinds of educational nursing games. Online games are very popular, so why not apply them to your nursing education?

The Super Nurse and Word Guess games have been developed in HTML5. Therefore, the latest browser versions of Internet Explorer (IE10/11), Firefox, Chrome or Safari need to be used. These games can also be played on most mobile devices.

We have enhanced the games software to produce a Report that you can print out and keep for your records, or to hand in for assignments. For statistical and research purposes, the game results are now being tracked and recorded.

Click on a Title below to open up a specific nursing educational game in a new window. If you find the audio annoying or distracting, click the Mute button on your computer. Enjoy!

1. Nursing Games - Super Nurse Series

1.27 Drug Dosage Calculations I - This game tests your knowledge of the metric system and how to accurately make conversions between the various units. ( 15 items selected from 50 questions).

1.28 Drug Dosage Calculations II - Test and refresh you knowledge and skills about how to calculate the correct tablet medication dosages. ( 15 items selected from 50 questions).

1.29 Drug Dosage Calculations III- This game is designed to assess and review your knowledge and skills in calculating the correct fluid medication dosages. ( 15 items selected from 50 questions).

1.30 Drug Dosage Calculations IV - Test and refresh your knowledge and skills in calculating the correct dosages for medication administration by injection. ( 15 items selected from 50 questions).

1.31 Drug Dosage Calculations V - This game assesses your knowledge and skills in calculating the correct intravenous (IV) dosages, flow rates and administration times. ( 15 items selected from 50 questions).

2. Nursing Games - Word Guess Series

2.45 Pediatric Disorders I - Test your knowledge of the names of disorders related to child development, vision, hearing, blood, respiratory system and nervous system in pediatric patients. (1 5 items drawn from a pool of 45 questions).

These Drag and Drop games were developed using Articulate's StoryLine 3 software. For best viewing of these SL3 games on Apple's iPhone and iPad, download and install the FREE Articulate from the iTunes Store. If you are using an Android tablet or phone, download and install the FREE Articulate Android Player App from Google Play.

3.2 Blood Tests I - See how well you know the indications / applications of 60 blood tests used to diagnose and monitor various body disorders and diseases. ( 15 questions selected from 60).

3.3 Blood Tests II - Test and refresh your knowledge of the indications / applications of another 60 blood tests used to diagnose and monitor various body disorders and diseases. ( 15 questions selected from 60).

3.4 Cancer Symptoms - Try this funky nursing game to see how well you know the signs and symptoms of 12 different types of common cancers. ( 24 questions).

3.5 Diagnostic Tests I - Try this game to see how well you know the indications / applications of 45 electrodiagnostic, endoscopic and nuclear diagnostic technologies, tools and procedures used to identify, monitor and evaluate body disorders and diseases. ( 15 questions from 45).

3.6 Diagnostic Tests II - Another game to see how well you know the indications / applications of 45 manometric, ultrasound and x-ray diagnostic technologies, tools and procedures used to identify, monitor and evaluate body disorders and diseases. ( 15 questions from 45).

3.10 Infectious Diseases - See how well you know the causes (bacteria, virus, fungi, parasites or protozoa) of these infectious diseases. ( 48 questions).

3.18 Oral Dosages - Another game about calculating the correct dosages for medications administered orally using solutions, suspensions, mixtures and syrups. ( 15 questions randomly selected from 35 items).

3.21 Pressure Ulcer Terms II - Another game to review the terminology used in the assessment, prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers / bedsores. ( 20 questions chosen from 70 items).

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How do you know what to trim, fix, expand, or change to get your business to the next level? You do a gap analysis, that's how.

You might have lots of guesses about what's going on, and your team might have different opinions on how to meet your objectives. Rather than groping around in the dark, a gap analysis leads you through a detailed examination of where your organization is currently and where you want to be so you can act on facts, not assumptions, to reach your potential.

If you're wondering how to do a gap analysis, follow these four simple steps. Regardless of your industry, you'll be able to apply these tips across any discipline and meet your business goals.

1. Analyze your current state

First, you'll need to choose which area of your business you want to focus on and start with your current state. You need to discover where your organization currently is before you can make a plan for reaching your goals.

For example, your company wants to become the most loved in your industry, but your customer support team reports that many calls and customer interactions end in frustration on the customers' part.

Is your product the problem or does your support team need more training on handling difficult calls? You won't know until you dig in, which will mean talking to the people involved, gathering data, and scrutinizing your KPIs. To make sense of this information and visualize your current state, use a gap analysis tool--a customer journey map, empathy map, service blueprint, or process flow.

If you wanted to find out what causes customer frustration, you might gather quantitative information, like your company's NPS score or the number of negative calls handled each week. You might also look at qualitative information, like customer comments or feedback from your support reps on the current call process.

Even if you're looking to analyze a more strategic area of your business, the process remains the same. A sales team with the same company vision--becoming the best-loved company in the industry--might examine the sales reps' product pitch as well as sales growth, targets, and conversion rates.

What's most important at this stage is understanding the root of the problem, which is much easier to see once you've laid out all the contributing factors. In fact, your gap analysis process should evaluate everything you currently do so you get the "big picture."

2. Identify the ideal future state

Once you have the big picture figured out and understand how your team or organization currently functions, you need to become idealistic. Where would you like to be? What's not happening that should be? Don't worry yet about how you'll get there. That's the next step. Right now, the sky's the limit, and you should dream big.

Maybe you have an exceptional marketing team that outsources all its content, but after performing a content audit, you realize that your brand is no longer cohesive because it's handled by a disparate group of freelancers. Your dream could be to regain control of the content creation process in order to reclaim your brand identity.

Another example might be of a warehouse needing to meet certain safety regulations, but the production and human resource managers decide that they want to do more than meet them. Their ideal would be to exceed what's mandated so they can attract and retain more talented and dedicated workers.

In both scenarios, current performance clearly falls short or needs to be changed. But instead of charging blindly ahead or slapping a Band-Aid on the situation, picturing the ideal helps you reach a higher potential. A good gap analysis tool here would be a brainstorming board or a mind map to really capitalize on your team's creativity.

But how do you realistically get to the ideal? That's where the hard work comes in.

3. Find the gap and evaluate solutions

Completing the first two steps in isolation won't get you great results--the status quo can seem inescapable, and goals can feel lofty and unattainable. Putting them together, however, exposes what's missing between your performance and your potential. You also need to decide which solutions will most effectively bridge the gap.

Returning to our previous example involving a marketing team (see step 2), a gap analysis would bring up the following question: How do we go from a muddled brand voice to one that's unified and under our control?

Several solutions for bridging this gap present themselves, though not all are created equal:

You could bring content creation back in house by hiring more full-time writers, which would be more expensive than using freelancers.

You could reevaluate of all your freelancers to determine which ones are worth keeping and which are falling short of your standards. This option would require some time and might result in not having enough freelancers to handle your needs.

You could tighten your brand creation guidelines and retrain your freelancers. This option would also require time and doesn't necessarily guarantee an improvement in the content created by your freelancers.

If guaranteed control matters most, then the first solution is best. On the other hand, if cost tops the list, then the first solution will be out, and your team might choose the second or third solution. A helpful gap analysis tool would be a decision tree as it calculates costs and benefits based on conditional probability.

In the end, how you bridge the gap will depend on your organizational and team priorities. Work together to find what works best.

4. Create and implement a plan to bridge the gap

After you've charted out the possible ways to bridge the gap and decided which would be best, you likely still need to convince others in your organization of that as well. The changes that you'll implement may also affect other teams and department, so it's important to come up with a plan.

Establish a clear strategy and actionable objectives to help you actualize your transition and get everyone on board.

For example, when presenting to management or executives, have a timeline or schedule for rolling out the planned changes. You could also create a more comprehensive action plan that assigns specific tasks to teams or individuals.

Keep reading about organizational change management, or use the tools described below to help you during this gap analysis process.

Gap analysis tools

Many tools exist to help you bridge the gap. Whichever tool you choose, visualize and document each step of your gap analysis to keep your organization moving forward.

SWOT analysis

SWOT analysis is perhaps one of the oldest textbook-marketing assets. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. You can perform a SWOT analysis both quantitatively and qualitatively. This process will help you determine internal and external threats to your organization and see where and how you stand out against the competition.

Fishbone diagram

Named for their distinctive shape, fishbone diagrams (also known as Ishikawa, cause-and-effect, or herringbone diagrams) explore the possible causes of a root problem. This type of diagram would be especially valuable when examining your current situation.

The most commonly used categories for investigation are:

You can choose any categories that make sense for the central problem or effect you're examining, as shown in the example below.

McKinsey 7S framework

The McKinsey 7S framework was developed by its eponymous consulting firm. It ultimately helps determine whether a company is meeting expectations, and it actualizes the shared values of an organization. It works through the 7 S's of an organization to see what values cross over. Additionally, this framework bridges the gap between the company's present and desired states.

Nadler-Tushman Model

Perhaps the most dynamic of the models, the Nadler-Tushman model examines how each business process affects another and identifies which gaps affect efficiency. It creates a holistic view of your organization's operational processes from beginning (input) to end (output).

The model finds gaps by dividing your organization's processes into three groups:

Input: Entire company culture and workforce, all resources used to create product/service, and operational environment

Transformation: The systems, teams, and processes that take the input value(s) and turn them into the output product

Output: The final product or service

PEST analysis

Similar to SWOT, PEST analysis helps you identify threats and opportunities by examining the four primary external factors of your business environment:

This approach eliminates gaps by pinpointing current issues, highlighting opportunities for change, and minimizing risks in the market.

If you want to do a more in-depth analysis of your market environment, try a PESTLE analysis instead, as it adds legal and environmental factors to the PEST analysis.

The gap analysis process is essential for any business to streamline their operations for efficiency and cost-effectiveness. If you're considering process improvement, learn how to start documenting your as-is process.

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Chances are, you've heard of the flipped classroom. In fact, you could be tired of hearing about it by now or dismiss it as a fad. "What's the big deal?" you might ask. After all, pre-teaching has been around since the 1990s, and video and its related formats have been used in the classroom since the 1950s.

Is all the hype warranted? Is flipped learning really making a difference in the lives of real students in real schools?

Because we are some of the pioneers of the flipped classroom movement, you might think we would shout a resounding "Yes!" to these questions. But in fact, we believe that the flipped classroom is not the answer. Instead, flipped learning is a gateway that leads toward some of the most powerful - but often the most difficult to implement - learning and teaching strategies out there.
What flipped learning is - and isn't
The common description of a flipped classroom is having students watch instructional videos at home and do the typical homework - worksheets, problem sets, back-of-chapter exercises - in class. We refer to this model as "Flipped Class 101." Moving direct instruction out of the group learning space and into the individual learning space is a great place to begin your journey, but it is not the destination itself.

The danger of settling in at Flipped Class 101 is that it doesn't fundamentally change anything. A lecture, whether it takes place in person or on video, is still a lecture. Boring lectures are bad, but boring lectures on video can be even worse. And if all you do is worksheets in class, then nothing has changed.

Flipped learning is not about making videos. It's about maximizing class time for deeper student engagement.

Educators have only a fixed amount of time with students and need to use it effectively. If whole-group direct instruction is not the best use of face-to-face class time, what is?

Each educator will answer this question in his or her own way. Flipped learning will look very different in an elementary language arts classroom, for instance, than it would in a high school woodworking or math class. The possibilities are endless.

But there are some common characteristics of all successful flipped classrooms.

1. Relationship building

Too often educational reformers and curriculum specialists put the bulk of their efforts into fixing the curriculum or helping students prepare for tests. However, research has shown that students who have positive relationships with their teachers do better on standardized tests and have higher grades. So what if we used some of the time we now spend on preparing students for standardized tests to connect meaningfully with them instead?

We believe that good teaching is built on solid relationships. We should spend more time and resources training teachers how to relate to each student and how to be mentors and coaches instead of just content experts who have studied all of the latest learning strategies.

Many of us can trace our interest in becoming educators to an individual teacher who made a significant impact on our lives. Relationships matter. They can even influence the long-term career choices of students. We need to rethink education in the context of seeing each learner as an individual who needs specific nurturing and guidance. Thus the adage: "I don't care what you know until I know that you care."

2. Personalized learning

When we first flipped our class, we provided only one way for students to learn our content - from our videos. But one day we had a student who asked us if it was OK if he just read the book and skipped the videos. We quickly realized we needed to provide more than one way for students to access content.

In an ideal flipped learning environment, students have choices about how they learn. Some students access the content by watching videos, others read the textbook and others use interactive simulations to learn content.

According to the ISTE Standards for Teachers 2c and 2d, educators need to start personalizing learning activities to students' diverse learning styles, working strategies and abilities, and they need to give students a variety of formative and summative assessments. Not only do students need more than one way to access or learn content, but they also need multiple ways to demonstrate that they have mastered it.

To that end, we took flipped learning a step further and began to allow students to choose how they would be assessed. Instead of allowing them only to take our standard exam, we let students do projects and design video games to demonstrate mastery of specific content. This resulted in differentiation for every student, and personalized learning and assessments that met the needs of each child.

3. Passion-based learning

For students to deeply understand content, they need to care about it. That means we need to create an atmosphere where they can thoroughly explore the areas they are curious about.

Before we flipped our classroom, we spent the majority of our in-class time helping students remember and understand activities. Little time was left for application, analysis, evaluation and creation. But once we began flipping, we were able to use class time to help students go deeper with the content as well as higher up the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. By shifting lower cognitive tasks from the group to the individual, flipped learning gives educators the opportunity to find ways to engage students and allow them the flexibility to explore things they find interesting.

A growing subculture of flipped learning teachers are using extra time in class for their students to explore their passions. This has become an adaptation of the " genius hour." Teachers devote 10-20 percent of their class time to letting kids discover their passions. Students are still held accountable for what they learn, but the content they are learning during this time is up to them.

The level of freedom you give them can vary. For example, if you are using the genius hour approach in a sixth grade social studies class, you may require your students to focus on some historical or cultural question but leave the door open for them to work on something interesting to them, such as making a documentary film, learning to prepare foods from a different culture or exploring the art of another country.

States and districts are looking for ways to deepen student learning with tools and approaches - including flipped learning. In addition, college-and-career readiness standards, such as the Common Core, require students to not only remember and understand content, but also to apply it, analyze it and work with it in unique situations.

4. Project-based learning

Since flipped learning puts an emphasis on maximizing class time, many have decided to take learning further by exploring project-based learning (PBL). PBL engages students by allowing them to solve real-world problems. This engagement and immersion helps them get to deeper understanding.

As John Larmer describes in his article " Debunking Five Myths about Project-Based Learning," one of the main concerns that prevents teachers from adopting PBL is the fear that they will have to sacrifice content. However, many teachers who combine flipped learning with PBL find that using video as an instructional resource lets them maintain the delivery of content while creating time to engage students in hands-on projects. Some teachers have even abandoned the content delivery as a pre-teaching tool and use video only within the context of each project to intervene with instruction as students need it.

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Cite this guide: Brame, C. (2013) Writing good multiple choice test questions. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/writing-good-multiple-choice-test-questions/.

Multiple choice test questions, also known as items, can be an effective and efficient way to assess learning outcomes. Multiple choice test items have several potential advantages:

Versatility: Multiple choice test items can be written to assess various levels of learning outcomes, from basic recall to application, analysis, and evaluation. Because students are choosing from a set of potential answers, however, there are obvious limits on what can be tested with multiple choice items. For example, they are not an effective way to test students' ability to organize thoughts or articulate explanations or creative ideas.

Reliability: Reliability is defined as the degree to which a test consistently measures a learning outcome. Multiple choice test items are less susceptible to guessing than true/false questions, making them a more reliable means of assessment. The reliability is enhanced when the number of MC items focused on a single learning objective is increased. In addition, the objective scoring associated with multiple choice test items frees them from problems with scorer inconsistency that can plague scoring of essay questions.

Validity: Validity is the degree to which a test measures the learning outcomes it purports to measure. Because students can typically answer a multiple choice item much more quickly than an essay question, tests based on multiple choice items can typically focus on a relatively broad representation of course material, thus increasing the validity of the assessment.

The key to taking advantage of these strengths, however, is construction of good multiple choice items.

A multiple choice item consists of a problem, known as the stem, and a list of suggested solutions, known as alternatives. The alternatives consist of one correct or best alternative, which is the answer, and incorrect or inferior alternatives, known as distractors.

Constructing an Effective Stem

1. The stem should be meaningful by itself and should present a definite problem. A stem that presents a definite problem allows a focus on the learning outcome. A stem that does not present a clear problem, however, may test students' ability to draw inferences from vague descriptions rather serving as a more direct test of students' achievement of the learning outcome.

2. The stem should not contain irrelevant material, which can decrease the reliability and the validity of the test scores (Haldyna and Downing 1989).

3. The stem should be negatively stated only when significant learning outcomes require it. Students often have difficulty understanding items with negative phrasing (Rodriguez 1997). If a significant learning outcome requires negative phrasing, such as identification of dangerous laboratory or clinical practices, the negative element should be emphasized with italics or capitalization.

4. The stem should be a question or a partial sentence. A question stem is preferable because it allows the student to focus on answering the question rather than holding the partial sentence in working memory and sequentially completing it with each alternative (Statman 1988). The cognitive load is increased when the stem is constructed with an initial or interior blank, so this construction should be avoided.

Constructing Effective Alternatives

1. All alternatives should be plausible. The function of the incorrect alternatives is to serve as distractors,which should be selected by students who did not achieve the learning outcome but ignored by students who did achieve the learning outcome. Alternatives that are implausible don't serve as functional distractors and thus should not be used. Common student errors provide the best source of distractors.

2. Alternatives should be stated clearly and concisely. Items that are excessively wordy assess students' reading ability rather than their attainment of the learning objective

3. Alternatives should be mutually exclusive. Alternatives with overlapping content may be considered "trick" items by test-takers, excessive use of which can erode trust and respect for the testing process.

4. Alternatives should be homogenous in content. Alternatives that are heterogeneous in content can provide cues to student about the correct answer.

5. Alternatives should be free from clues about which response is correct. Sophisticated test-takers are alert to inadvertent clues to the correct answer, such differences in grammar, length, formatting, and language choice in the alternatives. It's therefore important that alternatives

have grammar consistent with the stem.

are parallel in form.

are similar in length.

use similar language (e.g., all unlike textbook language or all like textbook language).

6. The alternatives "all of the above" and "none of the above" should not be used. When "all of the above" is used as an answer, test-takers who can identify more than one alternative as correct can select the correct answer even if unsure about other alternative(s). When "none of the above" is used as an alternative, test-takers who can eliminate a single option can thereby eliminate a second option. In either case, students can use partial knowledge to arrive at a correct answer.

7. The alternatives should be presented in a logical order (e.g., alphabetical or numerical) to avoid a bias toward certain positions.

8. The number of alternatives can vary among items as long as all alternatives are plausible. Plausible alternatives serve as functional distractors, which are those chosen by students that have not achieved the objective but ignored by students that have achieved the objective. There is little difference in difficulty, discrimination, and test score reliability among items containing two, three, and four distractors.

Additional Guidelines

1. Avoid complex multiple choice items , in which some or all of the alternatives consist of different combinations of options. As with "all of the above" answers, a sophisticated test-taker can use partial knowledge to achieve a correct answer.

2. Keep the specific content of items independent of one another. Savvy test-takers can use information in one question to answer another question, reducing the validity of the test.

Considerations for Writing Multiple Choice Items that Test Higher-order Thinking

When writing multiple choice items to test higher-order thinking, design questions that focus on higher levels of cognition as defined by Bloom's taxonomy. A stem that presents a problem that requires application of course principles, analysis of a problem, or evaluation of alternatives is focused on higher-order thinking and thus tests students' ability to do such thinking. In constructing multiple choice items to test higher order thinking, it can also be helpful to design problems that require multilogical thinking, where multilogical thinking is defined as "thinking that requires knowledge of more than one fact to logically and systematically apply concepts to a ...problem" (Morrison and Free, 2001, page 20). Finally, designing alternatives that require a high level of discrimination can also contribute to multiple choice items that test higher-order thinking.

Additional Resources

Burton, Steven J., Sudweeks, Richard R., Merrill, Paul F., and Wood, Bud. How to Prepare Better Multiple Choice Test Items: Guidelines for University Faculty, 1991.

Cheung, Derek and Bucat, Robert. How can we construct good multiple-choice items? Presented at the Science and Technology Education Conference, Hong Kong, June 20-21, 2002.

Haladyna, Thomas M. Developing and validating multiple-choice test items, 2nd edition. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Haladyna, Thomas M. and Downing, S. M.. Validity of a taxonomy of multiple-choice item-writing rules. Applied Measurement in Education, 2(1), 51-78, 1989.

Morrison, Susan and Free, Kathleen. Writing multiple-choice test items that promote and measure critical thinking. Journal of Nursing Education 40: 17-24, 2001.

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