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Pressure is mounting for colleges and universities to boost student success in higher education. At the same time, many see developing and scaling up learning technologies as a valuable strategy for keeping students engaged in the classroom. Use of technology is second nature to students in today’s generation so embrace it rather than hinder it. They have grown up with it and incorporate it into almost every aspect of their lives. Notebooks, tablets and cellphones are all technology that students are accustomed to and can use as aided learning tools. They should be encouraged to these potential learning tools that have known benefits in a classroom. An example of a blended classroom with technology would be using Anymeeting.com; a website designed for conference calls that can hold up to 200 callers. With this concept you can use it as a classroom setting to be able to teach lessons to those students who are not able to make class that day. They can watch the session and interact via the computer or can be on a phone call if away from a computer. If the instructor is going to be away and still wants to teach the class all they have to do is record a session and email the link to the students or can teach the lesson with the students in real time and can record the attendance by the login. Students can interact by chat or a microphone on the website.
If you don’t mind a few ads the software is free to the user but you can get an ad free webinar for a monthly fee. Additional features of Anymeeting.com are screen sharing, PowerPoint and .pdf capabilities. To engage the student there is a polling, moderated chat, and “raised hand” options. Need to show a YouTube video? Anymeeting.com will play the video without you having to use the screen sharing application by posting in the YouTube bar. You may want to use Google + or Skype but even they have limits on want you can do. For Google+ everyone has to have an account and with Skype only the premium access allows a

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