Ohio Scaffold to the Stars - 0 views
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KPI_Library Bookmarks on 01 Feb 12Introduction for students to NGLC funded Ohio Scaffold to the Stars project
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Khan Academy - 0 views
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Website offering a library of over 2,400 educational videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises.
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mentioned in Deeper Learning thread in NGLC Jam 2012 as a case that the Stanford professor who founded Udacity, a start-up for low cost online courses expected to reach masses, may follow for handling feedback. "progressive and multiple successes on practice problems demonstrates deeper learning." see tag 'article' for the link to the article about this professor in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
ALEKS (company website) - 0 views
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ALEKS produces web-based, artificially intelligent educational software used for assessment and then individualized lesson plans. Developed at the University of California, Irvine with funding from the National Science Foundation.
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mentioned in Deeper Learning thread in NGLC Jam 2012 as a case that the Stanford professor who founded Udacity, a start-up for low cost online courses expected to reach masses, may follow for handling feedback. "progressive and multiple successes on practice problems demonstrates deeper learning." see tag 'article' for the link to the article about this professor in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
BioBook, A Gates-Funded iPad Textbook, Would Create A Free Database For Customized Lear... - 0 views
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Article about BioBook by Gregory Ferenstein on Fast Company, October 30, 2011. Dan Johnson/Wake Forest's BioBook is a NGLC Wave 1 winner.
Badges for Retention: Why not? - 0 views
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By Preetha Ram on Innovating Education blog, September 15 2011. In this post, Ram posits the badge as a means of promoting retention in online courses, particularly free and open courses.
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Ran participated in the NGLC Jam.
Vygotsky, excerpts from "Thought and language" and "Mind and society" - 0 views
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Google Books excerpt of Language, literacy, and learning in educational practice: a reader by Stierer and Maybin, see pp 45-58. This excerpt includes Vygotsky's work on proximal development. Also known as Vykotsky.
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mentioned in Deeper Learning thread re: adaptive testing. "Vygotsky's "zone of proximal development," the problems are situated for success with an incremental stretch by the student. Adaptive testing can well serve competency based learning- earn an "A" by progressing X number of steps or reach some threshold of competence. Attainment is self-reinforcing and can be pragmatically related to grades."
SUNY Catch-up and Complete Enhanced Blended Learning Initiative - 0 views
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This project explicitly works to "disrupt the cycle of poverty" with a blended learning approach for targeted students in New York State to "catch up" and "complete" their educations. The project includes "an enhanced developmental math course and a Blended Online degree program."
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This project is a Wave 1 grantee.
Classroom Salon - 0 views
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Classroom Salon, developed at Carnegie Mellon, is a tool that encourages active learning, with readers able to annotate and tag directly into the text, highlighting passages of interest. Initially developed to help students improve their writing, it is also being used in other learning and training projects.
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Classroom Salon is being used with a blended learning project (developed at Univesrrity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) as part of a Wave 1 grantee project, titled "A Socially Centric Blended Learning Model for at risk Youths at an Urban University"
Faculty Adoption of Educational Technology - 0 views
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"Faculty Adoption of Educational Technology Educational technology support plays a critical role in helping faculty add technology to their teaching" -
Franziska Zellweger Moser. 2007. EDUCAUSE Quarterly (EQ) Volume 30 (2007). In depth case studies at three highly interesting but very different universities-MIT, Tufts, and Northeastern- based on interviews about the issue of faculty adoption of educational technology.
Social Capital in Education. Is there a value? #change11 - 0 views
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By Preetha Ram on the Innovating Education blog, Jan 25 2012. Ram looks at social capital in terms of persistence in education, but also considers social capital in terms of (education) badges.
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Ram was a Jam participant and shared this post, along with one on badges for retention.
Bayesian network - 0 views
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Definition taken from Wikipedia.org. Bayesian network is a method of looking at probability.
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Jammer David Gibson explained that his massive online game uses a Bayesian network to understand where each user has gone in the game and how each user has played. The network will help to establish badges.
AACE - Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education - 0 views
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A professional organization, AACE offers a wide array of resources, including conferences, publications, a digital library, and a career center.
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One Jammer used an AACE-generated mailing list to begin to form his mailing list.
Space Jam Theme Song - 0 views
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Posted to YouTube by xilymikehx on October 9, 2009; music is by Quad City DJs from Space Jam (soundtrack). Audio only.
Assessing Deeper Learning in Social Learning Environments Online - 0 views
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As per the Reader Notes (at the top of the document), this is a project funded by the Hewlett Foundation to Peer to Peer University. This white paper draft is available, for comment, in Google Docs. David Gibson is one author.
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David Gibson, a Jam participant, provided a link to this draft with this comment: "a white paper I co-authored with others under a grant from foundations driving the new efforts in badging. We're seeking public input and feedback on the paper."
Open Educational Resources: The Bridge to Success Project - 0 views
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By David Lascu in Educause Quarterly, Vol 34 (4), 2011. The goal of the project, as outlined in the Key Takeaways, is to improve students' college readiness using open educational resources (OER) to help them prepare for higher education.
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David Lascu, a Jammer, shared this paper that he authored.
'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas - 0 views
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By Jeffrey R. Young in College 2.0 of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 8 2012. This article looks at the use of badges to mark accomplishments and progress in online courses.
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This article was mentioned in the Jam with special notice of the profile of one of OpenStudy's Level 40 Heros.
Bridge to Success - 0 views
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This page features some recorded webinars about the Bridge to Success program (scroll approx 3/4 of the way down the page to Webinar Archives).
Higher Education Academy - 0 views
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The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is a UK organisation that provides services to the higher education sector in order to enhance the quality and impact of learning and teaching. The website offers a Resources Centre section with links to reports and OERs.
Defintion of Deeper Learning - 0 views
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This high level, general definition of deeper learning is on The Hewlett Foundation site.
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Document on deeper learning competencies can be found in the Next Generation Learning Conference Room on the Polilogue site.
SRI International, Community College Research - 0 views
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Landing page for work that the Community College Research team at SRI has conducted, including publications, presentations in workforce education and general education, and policy.