Is Your University Complying With the New Textbook Law? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix | EDUCAU... - 0 views
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A classroom portal that presents automatically updated syndicated resources from the campus library, news sources, student events, weblogs, and podcasts and that was built quickly using free tools.
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Increasingly, it's not just works of art that are appropriated and remixed but the functionalities of online applications as well.
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mashups involve the reuse, or remixing, of works of art, of content, and/or of data for purposes that usually were not intended or even imagined by the original creators.
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Beyond Campus Boundaries ePortfolio Transforms into 'Cultural Application' -- Campus Te... - 0 views
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08/09/05
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It’s a cultural application
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ePortfolios
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Open Access to Research Is Inevitable, Libraries Are Told - Wired Campus - The Chronicl... - 0 views
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Bernard Schutz, director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, in Potsdam, Germany, stressed how far the United States lags behind Europe and other parts of the world on the open-access frontier.
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"I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable," said David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. "Faculty are coming to understand, finally, that this has to happen if they're going to have the most scholarly opportunities to get things done."
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The "killer app" of open access, Mr. Schutz said, would be something that gave researchers the means to dig past metadata and do full-text searches. "I want really useful tools that understand context to retrieve text intelligently, hunt down key equations, ensure completeness of bibliographies, help assess the real impact of a scientist's work," he said.
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""I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable," said David Shulenburger, vice president for academic affairs at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. "Faculty are coming to understand, finally, that this has to happen if they're going to have the most scholarly opportunities to get things done.""
2010 Horizon Report » One Year or Less: Open Content - 0 views
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The movement toward open content reflects a growing shift in the way academics in many parts of the world are conceptualizing education to a view that is more about the process of learning than the information conveyed in their courses. Information is everywhere; the challenge is to make effective use of it.
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As customizable educational content is made increasingly available for free over the Internet, students are learning not only the material, but also skills related to finding, evaluating, interpreting, and repurposing the resources they are studying in partnership with their teachers.
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collective knowledge and the sharing and reuse of learning and scholarly content,
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2010 Horizon Report » Executive Summary - 0 views
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The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years.
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six emerging technologies or practices are described that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses within three adoption horizons spread over the next one to five years.
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In the seven years that the Horizon Project has been underway, more than 400 leaders in the fields of business, industry, technology, and education have contributed to this long-running primary research effort. They have drawn on a comprehensive body of published resources, current research and practice, their own considerable expertise, and the expertise of the NMC and ELI communities to identify technologies and practices that are beginning to appear on campuses or are likely to be adopted in the next few years.
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The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, a qualitative research project established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry on college and university campuses within the next five years.
Scholar 2.0: Public Intellectualism Meets the Open Web - 1 views
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for the most part, knowledge created by academics is placed mostly in outlets that can be accessed only by “the knowledge elite.”
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I have become so used to publishing directly to the Web that I felt shackled by the constraints of the print medium.
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open access and peer-review are NOT mutually exclusive
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foursquare for universities - 1 views
SpeEdChange: Looking for Universal Design (The View from Here, Part 2) - 0 views
Margin Notes | E-learning in university: the digital natives are restless | University ... - 0 views
UDI Community - 0 views
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Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) is an approach to teaching that consists of the proactive design and use of inclusive instructional strategies that benefit a broad range of learners including students with disabilities.
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One of the important aspects of UD is that its inclusive elements benefit all users, not just those with disabilities.
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By providing faculty with a framework and tools for designing inclusive college instruction, the dialogue surrounding college students with disabilities changes from a focus on compliance, accommodations, and nondiscrimination to an emphasis on teaching and learning.
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How to make huge university classes more meaningful - Parentcentral.ca - 0 views
Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
VoiceThread Universal - 0 views
The Odyssey of Ph.D. Students Becoming a Community of Practice | Mendeley - 0 views
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Wenger's theory of communities of practice (CoPs) helps explain how a group of Ph.D. students in the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato in New Zealand met a need for emotional and academic support and reduced isolation as they developed regular opportunities for face-to-face and virtual discussions on theory and technical and emotive issues.
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