Next Gen Learning

By Diane M. Reddy, Raymond Fleming, Laura E. Pedrick, Katie A. Ports, Jessica L. Barnack-Tavlaris, Alicia M. Helion, and Rodney A. Swain in EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 34, Number 4, 2011. Authors describe the U-Pace instructional approach, started at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. U-Pace combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with instructor initiated "Amplified Assistance" (conveyed through e-mail).

This page provides the Bioliteracy project's information on concept inventory. LY mentioned the Biological Concept Inventory in the Deeper Learning thread as a working partner for the BioBook group in the area of Genetics.

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.

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.

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).

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.

David Lascu, a Jammer, shared this paper that he authored.

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.

This article was mentioned in the Jam with special notice of the profile of one of OpenStudy's Level 40 Heros.

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.

Ran participated in the NGLC Jam.

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.

Ram was a Jam participant and shared this post, along with one on badges for retention.

Definition taken from Wikipedia.org. Bayesian network is a method of looking at probability.

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.

A professional organization, AACE offers a wide array of resources, including conferences, publications, a digital library, and a career center.

One Jammer used an AACE-generated mailing list to begin to form his mailing list.

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.

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."

Posted to YouTube by xilymikehx on October 9, 2009; music is by Quad City DJs from Space Jam (soundtrack). Audio only.

"This review examines that process and the social and other factors influencing the diffusion of Internet/World Wide Web technology. Attributes of Internet technology that differ from those of traditional instructional technologies and that modify the adoption and diffusion process are discussed, as are characteristics of the potential adopters and strategies that contribute to successful technology adoption and integration within an organization. "

"(1) How well are students learning? and (2) How effectively are teachers teaching? Classroom Research and Classroom Assessment respond directly to concerns about better learning and more effective teaching. "

"What is Technology Adoption?"

"The 10 Barriers to Technology Adoption Technology will absolutely change K12 learning. "

"Technology marketers face the ongoing challenge of how to align content touches with their customers' preferences for information sources. Social media heightens this challenge because poorly aligned content can go negatively viral. While technology marketers seek more effective tactics to meet their customers' needs, their customers seek more useful business-to-business (B2B) social media channels that provide them with information that has real value during their decision-making process. One powerful way technology marketers can close this gap is by optimizing social media tactics for each stage in the buyers' technology adoption cycle. These technology adoption patterns lead to safe bets that B2B technology marketers can take for engagement, as long as they follow a customer-driven approach."

"New technology presents risk for many customers. They react differently toward this risk based on their innate characteristics, the wants and needs of their companies, and the behavior of other buyers. The Technology Adoption Life Cycle (TALC) models how different groups of customers adopt to discontinuous innovation at different times. This model helps high-tech marketers build the best strategy for each phase of a product's life. The graphic below shows the markets that develop along the TALC and the types of customers that dominate them."

"R&D Vigor Trumps Randomized Control Trial Rigor"