Malartu Inc. is pleased to offer hosted Malartu Conversations to faculty and higher education institutions. What are Malartu Conversations? Well, they are one part Connected Course aimed at faculty (and any administrators interested) and one part social media dialog. The idea is to replace the traditional face-to-face workshop or conference model of faculty professional development…
Continue reading →The first step of an ambitious journey has begun to help confused, perplexed, or just curious professors. We’ve just started malartools.malartu.org. This is the home for help, tips, software tools, and apps. To begin, we’re concentrating on tips and instructions for how to use WordPress, with a particular focus on how professors and/or their students…
Continue reading →Here are the slides for my (Jim Luke’s) “lightning” talk at the 2015 Michigan LAND Conference. Wow, only ten minutes to talk. This will be a challenge for me.
Continue reading →Malartu Inc is helping professors find their voice on the web at the Teaching Professor Technology Conference 2014 in Denver. Here’s the presentation that Jean Ramirez and Jim Luke of Lansing Community College are giving about “Blogging to Engage Students, Enhance Learning, and Save Time”, or in other words, how to get your own voice…
Continue reading →Jim Luke will be talking about and introducing Malartu to the world at WordCamp Ann Arbor today (October 4, 2014). Here are the slides:
Continue reading →Welcome to Malartu Inc. We are a non-profit organization created with the objective to improve the productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness of professors in higher education. We are an organization of teaching professors started by teaching professors. Why Was Malartu Started? We saw a big need. There are literally billions of dollars spent every year on…
Continue reading →What if… …the click of a mouse enabled you to find and talk with another faculty member anywhere who teaches just what you do? …you had your own easy-to-use website designed for what you as a Professor do? A website where you can store your teaching materials, blog about your field or your teaching, or keep…
Continue reading →We need help. Specifically we need people with skills, contacts, resources, or just time and interest in the following areas: FACULTY! At this stage, we are particularly looking for faculty who want their own sites to use for any edu-related purpose: blogging, course content curation or storage, course materials, even textbook creation or substitution. WordPress…
Continue reading →Why We Are Non-Profit We aren’t interested in getting filthy rich by starting some killer ed-tech startup. We’re interested in teaching. We just want to do it better and more productively. It’s been our experience in our years in higher education that often the for-profit nature of many education technology providers gets in the way. …
Continue reading →The Need We need to be able to assess students and our own teaching at a more detailed level than what can be done with standardized tests. We need to be able to map detailed learning outcomes (or even sub-outcomes) to specific questions on tests. How are my students doing on this particular piece of…
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