Apple - iBooks Author - 0 views
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Available free on the Mac App Store, iBooks Author is an amazing new app that allows anyone to create beautiful Multi-Touch textbooks — and just about any other kind of book — for iPad. With galleries, video, interactive diagrams, 3D objects, and more, these books bring content to life in ways the printed page never could.
Lean Six Sigma: Research and Practice - 1 views
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Six Sigma stresses elements that are critical to quality, such as reducing manufacturing defects. Lean Speed strives to eliminate seven kinds of waste. What happens when Six Sigma and Lean Speed merge? You end up with faster processes and fewer defects in your business.
Student-Led Discussion Build Complex Understandings of Psychology Concepts | The Sloan ... - 0 views
Progressivism & America's Rise to World Power - 0 views
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With input from the “muckrakers”—journalists such as Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and others—and under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt and many other political and business leaders, the nation began to clean up its act.
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Progressive Era Documents
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The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher educ... - 5 views
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Statistical analysis of the results of the study indicates that students believe that podcasts are more effective revision tools than their textbooks and they are more efficient than their own notes in helping them to learn. They also indicate that they are more receptive to the learning material in the form of a podcast than a traditional lecture or textbook. The study suggests that the use of podcasts as a revision tool has clear benefits as perceived by undergraduate students in terms of the time they take to revise and how much they feel they can learn. Coupled with the advantages of flexibility in when, where and how it is used, podcasting appears to have significant potential as an innovative learning tool for adult learners in Higher Education
Taking Notes and Listening - 0 views
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information not available in textbooks, and they make connections. Notes are a storehouse of information for later use, e.g., when you take more advanced courses. We remember more when we write things down. Taking notes helps you to listen attentively and to think critically. Note-taking is a skill required in many jobs. Studies show that people may forget 50% of a lecture within
CK12.ORG - FlexBooks - 0 views
THE BRAIN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM - 0 views
Our Big Idea: Open Social Learning | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM - 0 views
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I was charged with explaining my "innovative approach to open social networks for learning"
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Access. In 1996, Sir John Daniel estimated we would need to create a major university every week to educate the 100 million students qualified to enter a university who have no place to go. Fifteen years later, universities have simply not kept pace with the staggering demand for college education
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2007 Silent Epidemic study funded by the Gates Foundation, I had what my students would call (pardon their French) a WTF moment. Eighty-eight percent of high school dropouts have passing grades. Huh? Nearly half say they are bored and classes are not interesting.
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Mark Frydenberg: The Flipped Classroom: It's Got to Be Done Right - 0 views
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Many students need an incentive to watch videos at home just like they need to be motivated to read their textbooks and do their homework. Not all students are motivated to learn on their own. If students aren't prepared, it makes it much harder to have a successful in-class experience. In my case, that incentive (read threat) is the possibility of a short quiz at the start of class.
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This one is a biggie: some instructors need to put their egos aside as they shift from being the "sage on the stage" to becoming the "guide on side."
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Originator Aaron Sams writes that there is no such thing as the flipped classroom, but rather, suggests it refers to any model where students are engaged in their learning
Paulo Freire and informal education - 0 views
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emphasis on dialogue
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informal education is a dialogical (or conversational) rather than a curricula
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should not involve one person acting on another, but rather people working with each other. Too much education, Paulo Freire argues, involves 'banking' - the educator making 'deposits' in the educatee.
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Description of Paulo Freire and his work. He was an influential educator and sought to use education as a means of helping individuals develop a critical consciousness about their life situations. His work was geared towards groups who were oppressed and lacked opportunities.His most famous work was a book titled "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Linear and non-linear learning | Ken Carroll - 0 views
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Textbooks, curricula, and our educational system itself are the products of a mechanistic past. School knowledge is pre-determined by a centralized authority, and delivered in a linear format to a mass audience. The system is standardized, mass produced, scheduled, etc. In the classroom, the emphasis has been on teaching - it is expected that the learning will simply follow. The act of teaching, then, is seen as transfering information in a controlled sequence, a process that eliminates context
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If there is a metpaphor for learning in the natural environment it may be the network rather than the line: our neural networks
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Age of Networks,
Free Technology for Teachers: Math Open Reference - A Good Supplement to Textbooks - 0 views
101 Killer Open Courseware Projects from Around the World: Ivy League and Beyond | The ... - 0 views
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The list, which also includes a few open source libraries (for textbooks) and some directories (for open source courses only) to expand your tool base, is alphabetized, as each resource offers more than one category; however, a few resources do specialize in one genre.
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ng list of 100 open courseware projects are designed to offer readers access to supplementary materials for education. They are free (hence “open”) and available to anyone who has access to the Internet.