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in title, tags, annotations or urlVideo: Voices From the Front Lines of Online Learning - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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As a first time student enrolled in an online course, I am dismayed by the total lack of the instructor's input. She merely feeds us the publisher's materials, has a teaching assistant grade the homework and pulls her tests from the publisher's test bank. I could teach this course, easily, myself.
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There is no "teaching" or explanation, just self study. Silly things are graded like participation in discussions, and homework is often graded despite the fact the solutions manuals are all available online for students. Many online courses are taught by for-profit schools whose key motivation is to never fail students and to keep their tuition dollars flowing in. Even traditional schools' online courses are silly. The teacher has no way to know who is taking the exams. Exams are open book. Let's all start calling it the sham that it really is.
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I have to say, from my experience as a student in an Ivy League school on the ground I had experiences like that. You can't judge an entire way of teaching and learning from these experiences.I have been teaching graduate school online since 1999. I engage actively with learners one on one, in small groups and in the class. I use meeting technologies as well as the Blackboard discussion. Learners work independently or collaboratively, depending on the assignment. I review and make detailed comments on their writing in assignments that require them to reasearch and draw on multiple scholarly sources. There is typically not one textbook, so "publisher's materials" or "open book exams" are non-existent. Even discussion assignments are submitted in full APA style and require references to the assigned and other scholarly readings. Higher order critical and creative thinking, original analysis, are required.
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Higher Education Reimagined With Online Courseware - Education Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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M.I.T. officials like to tell about an unsolicited comment they received one day about the online course “Introduction to Solid State Chemistry.” “I learned a LOT from these lectures and the other course material,” the comment said. “Thank you for having it online.” The officials did a double take. It was from Bill Gates. (Really.)
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But just 9 percent of those who use M.I.T. OpenCourseWare are educators. Forty-two percent are students enrolled at other institutions, while another 43 percent are independent learners like Mr. Gates. Yale, which began putting free courses online just four years ago, is seeing similar proportions: 25 percent are students, a majority of them enrolled at Yale or prospective students; just 6 percent are educators; and 69 percent are independent learners.
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Professor Shankar is working on his second semester of recorded videos, and says that the experience has improved his teaching.
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How Bill Gates' Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education | Fast Company - 0 views
Digitally Speaking / iGeneration Workshop - 0 views
Bill Gates Takes On Education's Biggest Bureaucratic Beast With Video Games | Fast Company - 0 views
Bill Gates: The Internet Will Displace the Traditional University | Open Culture - 0 views
News: The Rise of the 'Edupunk' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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said Mark David Milliron, deputy director for postsecondary improvement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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So where are the bright spots? A continual refrain from panelists was the idea that “cutting to invest” is the only path forward. College leaders argue that the imperative to grow programs now invariably means the shedding of others.
HIPAA Information For Consumers - 0 views
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To make sure that your health information is protected in a way that does not interfere with your health care, your information can be used and shared:For your treatment and care coordinationTo pay doctors and hospitals for your health care and to help run their businessesWith your family, relatives, friends, or others you identify who are involved with your health care or your health care bills, unless you objectTo make sure doctors give good care and nursing homes are clean and safeTo protect the public's health, such as by reporting when the flu is in your areaTo make required reports to the police, such as reporting gunshot wounds
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generally cannot
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Examples of organizations that do not have to follow the Privacy and Security Rules include:life insurers,employers,workers compensation carriers,many schools and school districts,many state agencies like child protective service agencies,many law enforcement agencies,many municipal offices.
Bill Ferriter | Teacher Leaders Network - 0 views
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Doesn’t Pink talk about this in A Whole New Mind? Here’s a quote: “While detailed knowledge of a single area once guaranteed success, today the top rewards go to those who can operate with equal aplomb in starkly different realms. I call these people “boundary crossers.” They develop expertise in multiple spheres, they speak in different languages, and they find joy in the rich variety of human experience. They live multi lives—because that’s more interesting, and nowadays more effective.” (Kindle Location 1692)
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Recently, I've tinkered with a system to assess my students' participation in Voicethread conversations. Essentially mirroring the reflective aspects of Konrad's blogging handouts, I've decided to ask my students the following four questions while we're working with a new Voicethread: Highlight a comment from our Voicethread conversation that closely matches your own thinking. Why does this comment resonate---or make sense to---you? Highlight a comment from our Voicethread conversation that you respectfully disagree with. If you were to engage in a conversation with the commenter, what evidence/argument would you use to persuade them to change their point of view? Highlight a comment from our Voicethread conversation that challenged your thinking in a good way and/or made you rethink one of your original ideas. What about the new comment was challenging? What are you going to do now that your original belief was challenged? Will you change yoru mind? Will you do more researching/thinking/talking with others?
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The cool part about assessing Voicethread presentations this way is that each question essenitally forces my students to interact with our conversation in a really meaningful way. To craft careful answers, they must truly consider the comments of others---an essential skill for promoting collaborative versus competitive dialogue---and compare those comments against their own beliefs and preconceived notions. That's metacognition at its best! What's even better is that when students know that these questions form the basis of our Voicethread assessment from the beginning of a conversation, participation level rise remarkably. While students are looking for project reflection comments, they often end up highly motivated to share their thinking with peers.
Apple's iPhone OS 4.0: What Will It Mean for Mobile Learning? by Bill Brandon : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views
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This has pretty exciting possibilities for Webinar/virtual classroom applications. The demo this morning was Skype. Until now, if you weren’t running Skype in the foreground on your iPhone, you couldn’t receive calls, and if you left the Skype app during a call, the call would disconnect. Now even when the phone is locked, you will still be able to receive Skype calls. When the phone is asleep or when the user is running other apps, VoIP apps can receive calls. When you send Skype to the background, incoming call invites will appear as the standard iPhone/iPod notification. Clicking the answer button brings the Skype app back. One question in the backchat during the presentation was whether there might be a new iPhone coming with a front-facing camera for such calls, but this went unanswered.
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The new OS, in the background, will use cell towers to detect the phone’s location, in order to minimize power demands. The primary use of this service will be for turn-by-turn navigation. The secondary use will be to support social networking apps, such as Loopt. The OS has privacy protection for this service. An indicator on the status bar lets the user know when an app is using his or her location. The user can enable and disable location use by individual apps. This service could be useful for “location-based learning.”
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Users can read books on any device (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad). The books sync between devices, so that a user can stop reading a book on one device, then open it on another, and at the same place. This could be extremely handy for textbook use.
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Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating - 0 views
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Imagine the cultural understandings that could develop between readers from opposite sides of the earth sharing thought together.
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