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My friend and colleague Marc (who really needs a blog) alerted me to this story regarding a recent legal ruling in the matter of the University of Ottawa and the Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa (UPUO). The case arose when the U of O charged that Professor Denis Rancourt “had misrepresented his course in a detailed web posting, in such a way as to have described a dramatically different course not compatible with the official course description.” The 65-page ruling the case supported Dr. Rancourt’s actions as within the purview of academic freedom.
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Is it educational technology? Only insomuch as most of us couldn’t do what we do without a lot of caffeination. However, it is education, since business education has become largely inseparable from technology. That being said, his thoughts are quite timely as more and more businesses look to employ some degree of “compassionate capitalism,” whether that means spending extra on facilities and building green, giving back to their communities or employees, or otherwise spending money in thoughtful ways that don’t simply line the pockets of investors and executives. So here’s a little departure from ed tech and some thoughts from Dean Cycon on the impending closing of Starbucks’ retail outlets.
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NCLB provides strong incentives to choose education policies and programs that work. Yet traditional educational research has rarely been designed with the goal of providing scientific evidence of “what works,” and relatively few educational researchers have been trained in how to do that kind of rigorous quantitatively sound research. WCER’s Interdisciplinary Training Program (ITP) in the Education Sciences is preparing a new generation of scholars who can provide solid evidence of “what works” in education.
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shared by a teacher commenting on Nedra's blog posting; very good effort to pull together the appropriate research for an effective technology rich school environment; the philosophy is that it starts with effective leadership; no bean counters here!
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Designs for Assessing Foundational Data Literacy is written for the geosciences, BUT it is has applicability for all disciplines
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