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Judy Brophy

Improving PowerPoint-style Presentations - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Judy Brophy on 23 Mar 11
     
    use graphics, less words, display your notes to only you & keep slides clean
Judy Brophy

Twitter Meets the Breakfast Club - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Judy Brophy on 18 May 11
     
    create assignment and tweet the result.
Judy Brophy

Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources - Wired Campus - ... - 0 views

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  • Judy Brophy on 26 May 11
     
    The criticisms came at a meeting this week of a trade group, the Software & Information Industry Association, where companies discussed in several sessions the implications of the grant program, which is designed to expand job training at community colleges.
Judy Brophy

The Quiet Revolution in Open Learning - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Community colleges that compete for federal money to serve students
  • online will be obliged to make those materials—videos, text, assessments, curricula, diagnostic tools, and more—available to everyone in the world, free, under a Creative Commons license.
  • 2-billion Labor-Education project could transport the open-resource movement to a new level of prominence.
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  • educators can search and shape them into rational sequences of learning.
  • departments also plan to organize the materials so tha
  • Proposals for the first $500-million of the $2-billion arrived at the Labor Department only a few weeks ago, so the exact nature of the programs remains to be seen.
Judy Brophy

Using Google Docs Forms to Run a Peer-Review Writing Workshop - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 0 views

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  • Judy Brophy on 05 May 11
     
    structured way to review someone's paper Find instances of, eg, thesis staement in paper and paste it into paragraph. Then comment on its adequacy. Great exercise but doesn't look like in-class material.
Judy Brophy

How Big Can E-Learning Get? At Southern New Hampshire U., Very Big - Technology - The C... - 0 views

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  • "We ensured substantial faculty voice, but we removed faculty veto power," Mr. LeBlanc says. At other institutions, he adds, "when faculty raise their voices vociferously, the initiative stops. And here, it can't stop. It can't be bogged down."
  • Judy Brophy on 29 Aug 11
     
    Online Venture Energizes Vulnerable College But some faculty at Southern N.H. fear for future of bricks-and-mortar campu
Judy Brophy

The Netflix Effect: When Software Suggests Students' Courses - Technology - The Chronic... - 0 views

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  • Austin Peay's system recommends courses, not professors, basing its decisions on content rather than teaching style.
  • Judy Brophy on 11 Apr 11
     
    a handful of colleges have begun using similar recommendation systems to help students pick their courses-a step that could change GPA's and career paths.
Judy Brophy

Professors Consider Classroom Uses for Google Plus - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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google+ classroom

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  • Judy Brophy on 11 Jul 11
     
    The new Google service, announced last week, is similar in many ways to Facebook. It provides a way to share updates, photos, and recommendations with friends and colleagues. One key difference is that Google Plus makes it easier to share information with isolated subgroups of contacts, rather than sending all updates to every online "friend."
Matthew Ragan

Decoding the Value of Computer Science - 0 views

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  • Matthew Ragan on 09 Nov 10
     
    In The Social Network, a computer-programming prodigy goes to Harvard and creates a technology company in his sophomore dorm. Six year later, the company is worth billions and touches one out of every 14 people on earth.
Matthew Ragan

A 'Stealth Assessment' Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills - 0 views

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  • "We have this whole group of kids who are not engaged with school, and appropriately so, because schools are so antiquated," she says
  • Matthew Ragan on 09 Nov 10
     
    Colleges no longer simply want to know what their students know, but how they think.
Matthew Ragan

The Shadow Scholar - 0 views

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  • I've written toward a master's degree in cognitive psychology, a Ph.D. in sociology, and a handful of postgraduate credits in international diplomacy. I've worked on bachelor's degrees in hospitality, business administration, and accounting. I've written for courses in history, cinema, labor relations, pharmacology, theology, sports management, maritime security, airline services, sustainability, municipal budgeting, marketing, philosophy, ethics, Eastern religion, postmodern architecture, anthropology, literature, and public administration. I've attended three dozen online universities. I've completed 12 graduate theses of 50 pages or more. All for someone else.
  • They couldn't write a convincing grocery list, yet they are in graduate school. They really need help. They need help learning and, separately, they need help passing their courses. But they aren't getting it.
  • Customers' orders are endlessly different yet strangely all the same. No matter what the subject, clients want to be assured that their assignment is in capable hands. It would be terrible to think that your Ivy League graduate thesis was riding on the work ethic and perspicacity of a public-university slacker. So part of my job is to be whatever my clients want me to be. I say yes when I am asked if I have a Ph.D. in sociology. I say yes when I am asked if I have professional training in industrial/organizational psychology. I say yes when asked if I have ever designed a perpetual-motion-powered time machine and documented my efforts in a peer-reviewed journal.
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  • I do a lot of work for seminary students. I like seminary students. They seem so blissfully unaware of the inherent contradiction in paying somebody to help them cheat in courses that are largely about walking in the light of God and providing an ethical model for others to follow. I have been commissioned to write many a passionate condemnation of America's moral decay as exemplified by abortion, gay marriage, or the teaching of evolution. All in all, we may presume that clerical authorities see these as a greater threat than the plagiarism committed by the future frocked.
  • it's hard to determine which course of study is most infested with cheating. But I'd say education is the worst.
  • As the deadline for the business-ethics paper approaches, I think about what's ahead of me. Whenever I take on an assignment this large, I get a certain physical sensation. My body says: Are you sure you want to do this again? You know how much it hurt the last time. You know this student will be with you for a long time. You know you will become her emergency contact, her guidance counselor and life raft. You know that for the 48 hours that you dedicate to writing this paper, you will cease all human functions but typing, you will Google until the term has lost all meaning, and you will drink enough coffee to fuel a revolution in a small Central American country.
  • My distaste for the early hours and regimented nature of high school was tempered by the promise of the educational community ahead, with its free exchange of ideas and access to great minds. How dispiriting to find out that college was just another place where grades were grubbed, competition overshadowed personal growth, and the threat of failure was used to encourage learning.
  • Matthew Ragan on 16 Nov 10
     
    The request came in by e-mail around 2 in the afternoon. It was from a previous customer, and she had urgent business. I quote her message here verbatim (if I had to put up with it, so should you): "You did me business ethics propsal for me I need propsal got approved pls can you will write me paper?"
Matthew Ragan

Tomorrow's College - Online Learning - 1 views

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  • The University System of Maryland now requires undergraduates to take 12 credits in alternative learning modes, including online. Texas has proposed a similar rule. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is pushing to have 25 percent of credits earned online by 2015. And the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, pointing to UCF as a model, has made blended learning a cornerstone of its new $20-million education-technology grant program.
  • "No one enforces you to do the right thing" in an online course, Ms. Hatten says. "It's at your discretion. I care about my grade, so if I don't know the answer, I'm not gonna let myself fail when I have an opportunity to look in the book."
  • Blended classes generate the highest student evaluations of any learning mode at Central Florida, and, like her classmates, Ms. Black is a fan. She gets as much from the online work as she would from more time in class, she says. Plus, the free time helps make it easier for her to do dance.
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  • If you want to encounter distance education, a student once said, sit in the back of a 500-seat lecture.
  • Matthew Ragan on 12 Nov 10
     
    The classroom of the future features face-to-face, online, and hybrid learning. And the future is here.
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