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5 Ways Technology Will Impact Higher Ed in 2013 - Forbes - 5 views

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  • In fact, over the last two years, enrollment in the for-profit education sector was down and industry giants such as the University of Phoenix announced the closure of some of its facilities. 
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      This was surprising to me. With the abundance of advertising for such for-profit companies, I thought they would be growing. It would seem that even though students demand online education to meet their busy lifestyles, they still demand quality (as shown in the annotation below).
  • Over the last two years, the number of top-tier Universities with at least some online activity has more than doubled, in large part due to MOOCs. 
  • By leveraging online platforms, lectures can now be pre-recorded and core content accessed by students any time, anywhere, and as many times as they need.  This means that classroom time can instead be used to augment the lecture content, whether through discussion, group exercises or quizzes. 
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      Educators can spend more time applying the knowledge and concepts introduced by engaging students in activities during class time instead of focusing on teaching content alone.
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  • what will be the cost to sustain MOOCs over time, will these courses count for credit and if and how will they be packaged together into a certificate or degree program? That said,the hybrid model (where part of a program is taught online and part is taught in person) is one that we can expect to see more fully embraced in this coming year. 
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      This article posed some very common questions regarding MOOC's? What is your opinion of the questions posed in this section?
  • There is a huge opportunity for instructors to create a more in-depth learning experience
  • The notion that faculty can increasingly reach a greater of number of students in their ‘classrooms’ means the per unit cost of teaching a student could start to decrease, but only if you can achieve similar or better learning outcomes, and simply moving lecture content online will not solve the cost problem. 
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      I had not thought about lowering the cost of education as a result of moving curriculum into an online platform. This section was quite interesting to me as I had never quite thought about this particular aspect of online education.
  • normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
     
    This article focuses on how institutions of higher education are adapting to emerging technologies to meet the needs of their students.
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"Engage Me or Enrage Me": What Today's Learners Demand (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 2 views

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  • the kids back then didn’t expect to be engaged by everything they did. There were no video games, no CDs, no MP3s—none of today’s special effects. Those kids’ lives were a lot less rich—and not just in money: less rich in media, less rich in communication, much less rich in creative opportunities for students outside of school. Many if not most of them never even knew what real engagement feels like.
  • All the students we teach have something in their lives that’s really engaging
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      If teachers could tap into what engages their students, they can also tap into their motivation to learn and be active participants in the learning process.
  • Rather than being empowered to choose what they want
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  • in school, they must eat what they are served
  • In my view, it’s not “relevance” that’s lacking for this generation, it’s engagement.
  • So we have to find how to present our curricula in ways that engage our students—not just to create new “lesson plans,” not even just to put the curriculum online
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      How do you engage your students in innovative ways in your classroom? With such emphasis placed on standardized test preparation, are you allowed academic freedom to engage your students with alternative teaching practices?
  • kids’ long-term engagement in a game depends much less on what they see than on what they do and learn.
  • And if we educators don’t start coming up with some damned good curricular gameplay for our students—and soon—they’ll all come to school wearing (at least virtually in their minds) the T-shirt I recently saw a kid wearing in New York City: “It’s Not ADD—I’m Just Not Listening!”
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      normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
       
      It's not just about graphics and special effects, it's about substance. Do students learn and are they challenged?
  • That’s one more reason the kids are so enraged—they know their stuff is missing!
  • normairisrodz on 06 Oct 13
     
    Engaging students who "tune us out". This article reinforces Brain Rule 4: Attention, "we don't pay attention to boring things." Educators must seek ways of engaging students... solution - game-based learning.
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