The 10 Barriers to Technology Adoption | District Administration Magazine - 0 views
-
Diana Woolis on 22 Jan 12"The 10 Barriers to Technology Adoption Technology will absolutely change K12 learning. "
What Is Technology Adotion - 0 views
-
"What is Technology Adoption?"
CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES - 0 views
-
"(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. "
Bridge to Success - 0 views
-
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
-
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.
simSchool - 0 views
-
"simSchool is a classroom simulation that supports the rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching." -from About page
Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Onlin... - 0 views
-
By Nick DeSantis on Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 23, 2012. Article is about Sebastian Thrun, a research professor of computer science at Stanford who has given up teaching to found Udacity, a start-up offering low-cost online classes.
ALEKS (company website) - 0 views
-
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.
-
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.
Khan Academy - 0 views
-
Website offering a library of over 2,400 educational videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises.
-
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.
Understanding by Design - 0 views
-
By Grant P. Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1998. (On Worldcat) "With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. "
Measuring How a College Education Lays the Foundation for "Thinking Like An Expert" - 0 views
-
Report to download (PDF) By Louise Yarnall, Larry Gallagher & Geneva Haertel, December 2009, SRI International: Inquiries Into Community College "...report on determining what big ideas matter to undergraduates in biology, particularly non majors."
North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO) - 0 views
-
A Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) project. "NANSLO provides a technological solution that will address many of the barriers that prevent low-income, first generation college students who are at risk of failing to complete their degrees or pursue science-based careers due to challenges such as work and family obligations or living in rural areas that limit their access to traditional classes."
-
NANSLO is a Wave 1 grantee.
Vygotsky, excerpts from "Thought and language" and "Mind and society" - 0 views
-
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.
-
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."
SALG - Student Assessment of their Learning Gains - 0 views
-
The SALG website is a free course-evaluation tool that allows college-level instructors to gather learning-focused feedback from students.
MSLQ - Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire - 0 views
-
Link to download (PDF) of questionnaire.
BioBook, A Gates-Funded iPad Textbook, Would Create A Free Database For Customized Lear... - 0 views
-
Article about BioBook by Gregory Ferenstein on Fast Company, October 30, 2011. Dan Johnson/Wake Forest's BioBook is a NGLC Wave 1 winner.
SRI International, Community College Research - 0 views
-
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.
Defintion of Deeper Learning - 0 views
-
This high level, general definition of deeper learning is on The Hewlett Foundation site.
-
Document on deeper learning competencies can be found in the Next Generation Learning Conference Room on the Polilogue site.
OpenStudy - 0 views
-
OpenStudy is a for profit social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things.
Bioliteracy - Conceptual assessment in the biosciences at University of Colorado - 0 views
-
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.
« First
‹ Previous
61 - 80
Next ›
Showing 20▼ items per page