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Status of UCF (2nd largest univ in the US) blended learning and online learning systemic approach for quality to assure improvement - faculty development is required; social-constructivist paradigm and faculty engaged in action research; measure "student success" via grades earned A,B,C and blended does better with web-based or video-based; withdrawal and satisfaction rates nearly the same as f2f tho video has slightly higher; online learning benefits for students = convenience, reduced logistical demands, increased flexibility, information fluency; for faculty = professional devt, flexibility, teaching/research support; UCF expanded capacity, ability to serve students anywhere, buffers competition; online learning costs a little more but provides capacity equivalent to >$64M of classroom construction (which would have an annual operating cost of $4.1M = cost avoidance model), more efficient use of existing CR space, growth with quality

referred to in EdFuture.net webinar by Simon Buckingham Shum, Associate Director (Technology), Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK - uses student data generated from LMS (inc Bb and Moodle) discussion forums reinterpreted into a network diagram Can visually depict - disconnected (at risk) students - key information brokers within a class - potentially high and low performing students so to plan interventions before deadline for grading - before/after snapshots to indicate impact of intervention - student reflection/benchmarking in informal self-assessment

recommended by Maryellen Weimer in her blog http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/teaching-metacognition-to-improve-student-learning/ where she includes some great questions to get students going (e.g., one minute papers or dyads in class): - How have I prepared for class today?/What's the best way for me to prepare for a class like this one? - What questions do I have - Why did I miss those exam questions/ What do I need to do to avoid missing questions like these on the next exam?

Chronicle article (paywalled) on how more writing will help students learn more--an interesting problem when combined with the prevalence of MOOCS, where writing assignments are only looked over by peers.

"One of the best features of this version of the game is the social play. "

"It's a long process of aculturation that transitions students into the adult world." I agree with this 100% and was glad to read it. While I support online learning, this reason alone makes me believe that if the college campus was taken away, we would be doing those young students a disservice.

Challenge: The Completions Priority "The completions marketplace should be redesigned to improve overall scalability, measurable impact, mutual affordability, and sustainability. To do so while avoiding intrusive government regulation and retaining local autonomy will require voluntarily confirmed "rules of the road" that enable effective completions practices at autonomous micro levels to be rolled up collectively into mutually affordable common-good macro solutions." Solution: Economic Governance for the Completions Marketplace - a common good critical to economic and social progress "The wisdom of a crowd willing to inform and support adaptive change leadership might help create common ground in a nonprofit, non-governmental global Education Leadership Commons (ELC) formed for the purpose of developing and evolving open interoperability of common educational services, processes, and accountability metrics, all at a minimally intrusive, trusted level of economic governance. Modeled along the lines of the Internet Society's so-far successful governance mechanisms, the ELC could be operationalized through standing working groups, their advisory or governance committees, and other nested and loosely-coupled, efforts to advance and sustain educational attainment within and across the three dimensions of the completions marketplace." - Completions Productivity Task Force - Economic Governance Council chart on page 6: Governance Matrix of Rights and Responsibilities in the Completions Marketplace student, assessment provider, education provider, government (other other funding source) 8 possible outcomes, including accreditation's formative peer-review process is retained "to create "trust-but-verify" economic governance collaborations" "If government can't provide the leadership and funding stability required for victory, then we the people should do so through a social networking micro-contribution mechanism, not unlike the micro-loan infrastructure cr

Kimberly Arnold (Purdue) on Signals, John Fritz (UM, Baltimore Co), Eric Kunnen (Grand Rapids CC) on Astro Fritz refers to his presentation at EDUCAUSE 2 years ago where he presented on using Blackboard user stats (for informing faculty/departments who then analyze it) in a panel with John Campbell of Purdue who had just come out with his Signals program. 5 stages of analytics on campus (extraction/reporting, analysis/monitoring, what-if scenario building, predictive modeling/simulation, automatic triggers of business processes)

2 guides to support UDL course redesign: - faculty development workshop guide (2 hour) - UDL Institute Guide (one or 2 day) UDL-U supports postsecondary faculty and staff by providing resources and examples to improve postsecondary education for all students, including those with disabilities. UDL-U is designed to be useful for individual inquiries related to small UDL topics, issues, or problems, as well as scalable to larger faculty development efforts (e.g., Faculty Learning Communities). UDL-U frames course redesign as a three-tier professional development process: 1. Application of UDL principles to enhance teaching and learning 2. Utilization of accessible instructional media and practices 3. Awareness of assistive technology enablers and barriers

a multiyear pilot project at the Pennsylvania State University's Berks College that redesigned a lecture-based introductory chemistry course into a blended learning course. guides for group work and archiving clicker response data, etc.

See also infographic at Inside Higher Ed review of the report: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/10/educause-survey-finds-rise-use-and-demand-classroom-technology

Technology in Education can be used to facilitate instruction and realise many long-standing and sound goals around personalised learning, and clear learning outcomes, on campus and in online education.