by Alisa Gross | Jul 7, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
“Students live in a digital age and have an immediacy expectation. Waiting a day is too much. With a webcam, students can watch themselves immediately.” – Brent Sleasman Brent Sleasman is an Associate Professor of Communication at Gannon University in Erie...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 16, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech
Video production is not typically a skill required of biomedical engineers. But at Drexel University, undergraduate students within Dr. Kara Spiller’s Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering class are enthusiastically adapting new learning paradigms. In typical...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 9, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, EdTech, Teaching
Jillian Harris is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. In 2009, Jillian was asked to develop Modern Dance technique standards that could be applied in formal assessments of students’ performance. Prior to this...
by Alisa Gross | Jun 2, 2014 | Acclaim Posts, Teaching
On the first day of Fundamentals of Public Speaking at Austin Community College and at the University of Texas, Maegan Stephens’ students vote on their syllabus. “This is not my class, it is our class; therefore, this should not be my syllabus, it should be ours,”...
by Alisa Gross | May 12, 2014 | Acclaim Posts
Chuck Sacco teaches an experiential entrepreneurship class called Launch It! at Drexel that allows him to work with students entrepreneurs to create and launch their own ventures with the help of up to $2,000 in seed funding. After co-founding PhindMe, a mobile...
by Aksel | Apr 3, 2014 | Acclaim Posts
At Acclaim, we track a number of engagement metrics daily and quite obsessively. These metrics are Acclaim’s pulse – it is our way of knowing if the platform is alive and well. We thought it’d be valuable for our customers and other stakeholders to...
