www.tltgroup.org Engaging the Next 10% Faculty Sharing - Small Steps in the Right Direction Low-Threshold Applications and Activities (LTAs) Frugal Innovations for Student Engagement

An LTA is an activity or application of information technology that is reliable, accessible, easy to learn, non-intimidating and incrementally low-cost in time, money, and stress.

#tltlta Twitter hashtag begun March 28, 2011

Introduction to LTAs (Definitions, Forms, Criteria, Examples, etc.) Shareworthy LTAs - see Glossary LTA Collection (edited by Charles Ansorge for the TLT Group) Additional LTA Resources (Collections of low threshold and higher threshold teaching resources, Examples, Slideshows, etc.) 5-Minute eClips & Brief Hybrid Workshops Frugal Innovations for Student Engagement Visions Worth Working Toward (VWWT) Teach to Fish vs. Give a Fish Why Bother?

Don't raise unrealistic expectations,  Don't add to the hype or the work;  LOWER THE THRESHOLDS!   Image from Dr. Walt Volland,  Bellevue Community College,  All rights reserved, 1998

 

Please send your questions or suggestions for improving our work on Low-Threshold Applications and Activities to 

Charles Ansorge at:  

cansorge@unl.edu or to Steve Gilbert at:  

GILBERT@TLTGROUP.ORG

ORIGIN:  "LTAs" - Low-Threshold Applications and Activities were first described by Steven W. Gilbert in an article "The Beauty of Low Threshold Applications" in Syllabus Magazine, February 12, 2002    Click here for text-only version.
Also appeared in AAHESGIT-96, Steve Gilbert's listserv (now TLT-SWG).

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