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Sarah Eeee

Wikipedia Comes of Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Not all information is created equal. The bottom layers (the most ubiquitous, whose sources are the most ephemeral, and with the least amount of validation) lead to layers with greater dependability, all the way to the highest layers, made up mostly of academic resources maintained and validated by academic publishers that use multiple peer reviews, trained editors, and scholarly reviewers.
  • Most of the nearly 2,500 students who responded said they consult Wikipedia, but when questioned more deeply, it became clear that they use it for, as one student put it, "pre-research."
  • Wikipedia is comprehensive, current, and far and away the most trustworthy Web resource of its kind. It is not the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but in fact the highest layer without formal vetting.
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  • That such a high percentage of students in the study indicated they do not cite Wikipedia as a formal source, or admit to their professors they use it, confirms that they are very aware of the link it represents in the information-authority chain.
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      Optimistic view...what evidence does this author have that students don't plagarize from Wikipedia - i.e. use its information without citing it, or attributing the information found to a more acceptable source?
  • Today, when starting a serious research project, students are faced with an exponentially larger store of information than previous generations, and they need new tools to cut through the noise. Intuitively they are using Wikipedia as one of those tools, creating a new layer of information-filtering to help orient them in the early stages of serious research.
  • . One scholar issued a challenge: Wikipedia is where students are starting research, whether we like it or not, so we need to improve its music entries. That call to arms resonated, and music scholars worked hard to improve the quality of Wikipedia entries and make sure that bibliographies and citations pointed to the most reliable resources.
  • To go further, while I do agree that teaching information literacy is important, I do not agree with those who argue that the core challenge is to educate students and researchers about how to use Wikipedia. As we have seen, students intuitively understand much of that already.
  • The key challenge for the scholarly community, in which I include academic publishers such as Oxford University Press, is to work actively with Wikipedia to strengthen its role in "pre-research." We need to build stronger links from its entries to more advanced resources that have been created and maintained by the academy.
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    Concise and interesting opinion piece about the role of Wikipedia in research. The author argues that many students use Wikipedia for 'pre-research,' and that it serves a valuable and valid step towards finding the best evidence. Ultimately, this article calls for scholars to increase the links between peer-reviewed authoritative sources and Wikipedia articles.
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    Does a 'harm control' approach to research seem like the best option to you? What role do teachers at all levels of education have to play? Librarians?
Dennis OConnor

Academic Excellence in 140 Characters | Social Media in Higher Education - 0 views

  • This is a video created by one of my students to summarize the research we conducted on the effects of Twitter on student engagement and grades. The journal article summarizing the study and our findings is available here.
Dennis OConnor

What Makes a Successful Online Learner? | ISEEK - 0 views

  • The many advantages of online learning include flexibility and convenience. But online learning is a lot more challenging than it may seem.
  • Persistence
  • Effective time-management skills
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  • Effective and appropriate communication skills
  • Reading and writing skills
  • Motivation and independence
  • A good study environment
Sarah Eeee

The Magic of Higher Education - Old School, New School - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • When we view faculty as labor and students as customers, we do not see magic; we see expenses and revenue on a profit-and-loss sheet. We would be better off selling tickets to a magic show.
  • When we present the university as a corporation, the faculty as labor, and the students as customers, we lose sight of our core mission of teaching and learning. Just as the corporate analogy distracts, the customer analogy detracts. Presenting the student as a customer rather than as a partner in learning is condescending at best. It is a short-run view that focuses on interactions with students as a series of financial transactions rather than a network of human relationships. When we view education as consumption, administrators are forced to side either with faculty at the expense of the students or with students at the expense of the faculty. When our focus is on learning as a form of development, we can spend our energy on finding ways to support the creativity and growth of both partners in this relationship.
  • But the reality is that those of us who labor in academe range from part-time work-study students to outsourced janitors and food-service workers, to campus police, librarians, doctors, legal counsel, and a myriad of student counselors, among others. Many of the working conditions that affect professors also affect the rest of us. Much more is to be gained by seeing the conditions we have in common than by painting a picture of faculty as uniquely oppressed. Building bridges between faculty and administration is a necessary step in creating a campus culture that values teaching and learning and that is oriented toward the success of both students and faculty.
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  • Professors seem to have a strange sort of tunnel vision when it comes to defining labor on campus. Apart from their fellow faculty members, their view rarely includes those outside of the line on the organizational chart that links themselves to their presidents. They seem to look through their chairs, deans, and provosts to their most senior leaders.
  • Academic discussions of the corporatization of higher education frame the institution as a corporation and the faculty as the labor oppressed by this structure. But academics need to realize that the corporate model dehumanizes everyone on campus, not just the faculty.
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    How can we be inspirational teachers at a distance? How do we achieve this 'magical' element, rather than just replicate the base demands of the corporate university?
Kay Cunningham

Outbrain Study Gives Insight Into Content Discovery Trends Across the Web's L... - 13 views

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    'To do this, we looked at traffic patterns from 100 million sessions across more than 100 premium publishers that are currently using our platform to see how readers are accessing content, where they're finding it and how they're engaging with that content. We've compiled this data into our inaugural report, and our hope is to use this as a benchmark against future quarterly trend analysis.'
Ann Steckel

lingro: The coolest dictionary known to hombre! - 1 views

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    A site which embeds a website students are reading and allows all words on the site to be clickable, enabling a dictionary. Also keeps track of words you've clicked on and allows you to play study games with them!
Clif Mims

Capzles - 1 views

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    Combine your videos, photos, blogs and mp3s into rich, multimedia storylines. Capture your memories. Tell your stories. Travel through time.
Clif Mims

Scribble Maps - 1 views

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    Draw on google maps with scribblings and more! Quick and easy way to make and share maps.
Dennis OConnor

Online Education for Instructional Designers: Picking the Right Program by Lorna Collie... - 5 views

  • Nicholle Stone is the program advisor and lead instructor for the online graduate certificate program in instructional design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout [http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/instructionaldesigncert.cfm] (one of two grad certificates UW-Stout offers; the other is in eLearning). While you can use the certificate courses at UW-Stout for the school’s Master’s in Education, there is no master’s specifically in instructional design. UW-Stout developed only certificate programs in the field because so many of its students already hold advanced degrees, says Stone.
  • Coursework at UW-Stout includes understanding learning and design theories, models, and instructional strategies, as well as hands-on work developing computer-based training pieces. The work students do is customized to their current job or career interests, says Stone
  • Before beginning your school quest, you need to figure out your goals, says Harris. “You really have to develop your own personal rubric: ‘What is it I am looking to do?’” he says. “There is no Good Housekeeping book where you can look up a recipe to find your ideal school; you have to determine this yourself, based on research and an honest assessment of your professional objectives."
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  • Harris says there is no credible ranking for online master’s or certificate programs in instructional design, so you need to do your research to find the best program that fits your goals.
  • verall, says Harris, what’s most important in picking where you go and what you study is “what you want for yourself as a professional. That’s going to be the most important criteria you have to come up with in deciding whether a program is a good choice for you.”
Dennis OConnor

Martin Dougiamas Keynote at Moodlemoot Canada | Some Random Thoughts - 13 views

  • Martin Dougiamas presented the keynote at the Canadian Moodlemoot in Edmonton.
  • Martin updated us with the current stats on Moodle 54,000 verified sites worldwide. 41 Million users 97 language packs (17 fully complete, the rest are in various states) 54 Moodle Partners who fund the project and its going very well ensuring the project will continue into the future. (such as Remote-Learner who I work for) USA still has the highest raw number of installations and Spain has half of that with much less population. Brazil is now 3rd in the world and has overtaken the UK now in total installs. 3 of the top 10 are English speaking per head of population, Portugal has the largest number of Moodle installations.
  •  ”a lot of people find that giving students the ability to teach is a valuable learning process” – Martin Dougiamas.
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  • As many may have seen before, there are 10 steps of pedagogical usage of Moodle, which is outlined on Moodle Docs. It details the typical 10 step progression which looks like: Putting up the handouts (Resources, SCORM) Providing a passive Forum (unfacilitated) Using Quizzes and Assignments (less management) Using the Wiki, Glossary and Database tools (interactive content) Facilitate discussions in Forums, asking questions, guiding Combining activities into sequences, where results feed later activities Introduce external activities and games (internet resources) Using the Survey module to study and reflect on course activity Using peer-review modules like Workshop, giving students more control over grading and even structuring the course in some ways Conducting active research on oneself, sharing ideas in a community of peers
  • A lot of people want that secure private place in the LMS with big gates, with students needing to gain competencies and knowledge.  Many people really want this “Content Pump” focus, becuase it is what they need. Others use it as a community of practitioners, connected activities, content created by students and teachers alike and many methods of assessment. These are the two ends of the spectrum of usage.
  • Moodle has two roles: to be progressive and integrate with things coming up, and a drag and drop UI, with innovate workflows and improve media handling and mobile platforms to be conservative and improve  security and usability and assessment , accredition, detailed management tracking and reports and performance and stability
  • Since Moodle 1.9 came out three years ago,  March 2008 and most are still using the three year old code which has had fixes applied since then (1.9.11 is the current release.) The support for 1.9 will continue until the middle of 2012 as it is understood that it will be a big move to Moodle2.   “If you are going to Moodle2, you may as well go to Moodle 2.1 as it is better with 6 months more work” .
  • However, the ongoing support for each release will be 1 yr moving to the future. Moodle will be released every 6 months which enables the organisations to plan their upgrade times ahead of time.
  • What will be in Moodle 2.1? Performance Restore 1.9 backups Quiz/question refactor Page course format Interface polishing Official Mobile app (there now is a Mobile division)
  • HQ are working on an official app which uses Moodle 2 built-in web services. This provides a secure access to the data in Moodle 2 for people who have accounts in Moodle which greatly benefits mobile apps.
  • Moodle HQ has looked at what is Mobile really good at and identified them one by one and implemented them.  This includes messaging, list of participants in your course, marking attendence (in class roll call). This will be for the iPhone first and then someone will make it for Android so it will lag behind, but will be the same.
  • What is going to happen in 2.2 and beyond?
  • Grading and Rubrics Competency Tracking (from activity level, course level, outside courses to generate a competency profile) Assignment (planning to combine all 4 into one type and simplify it) Forum (big upgrade probably based on OU Forum) Survey (to include feedback/questionnaire – being rewritten currently) Lesson Scorm 2 Improved reporting IMS LTI IMS CC (although it is in 1.9 needs to be redone)
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    An important overview for any one using Moodle, especially useful for those contemplating an upgrade to 2.0 .  (I'll make the move when we have 2.1 or 2.2.)  
nelcris2811

Study language Korean - 0 views

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    Học bất kỳ ngôn ngữ nào Từ vựng + Ngữ Pháp rất là quan trọng nếu mình có 2 thứ này, chúng ta sẽ nghe được và nói chuyện được thành thạo. vậy cách nhớ như thế nào, hãy tham khảo thử xem. Học tiếng Hàn Quốc: Nhớ từ vựng - một yếu tố quan trọng trong học tiếng Hàn Cách 1: học từ mọi nơi. Bạn cắt giấy thành những miếng nhỏ (giống loại sticker í, nhưng cái nì đắt tiền, mình ko dám mua nên mua giấy vàngg 3000/1 trăm gờ ram), sau đó viết những từ mình cần học lên đó. Dán ở nơi mà mình hay nhìn nhất, ví dụ như trên gương, trên màn hình máy tính, bức tường trước chỗ rửa chén, tủ lạnh, ti vi…cứ đi qua là dòm à. Cách 2: học từ theo chủ đế. Dĩ nhiên là ngôn ngữ của một quốc gia thì mình khó thể nào nắm hết được tất cả, tùy theo điều kiện công tác hoặc việc làm thì mình nên theo hướng đó. Nghề biên phiên dịch đòi hỏi khá cao về vốn từ ở mọi lĩnh vực cho nên việc học hàng ngày là điều nên làm. Bạn nên mua báo, hoặc tìm trên mạng những bài báo theo các chủ đề như: chính trị, kinh tế, văn hóa, xây dựng, lao động, kinh doanh…sau đó cắt ra và dán vào từng cuốn sổ ( mỗi cuốn là 1 chủ đề riêng biệt). Trong từng cuốn, bạn tô đậm những từ ko bít và ghi chú thích nghĩa. Mở từ điển ra, tô đậm chữ đó. Rồi ghi vào trong sổ mình, thứ tự trang trong từ điển của từ đó. Thường xuyên mở ra mở vào đọc đi đọc lại thì nhớ thôi. Cách 3 : học bằng cách tự dịch. Bạn nên làm quen với 1 người nước ngoài, dịch xong nhờ họ xem giúp mình. Nhưng để tăng vốn từ của ngôn ngữ khác thì nên dịch theo kiểu : Việt Anh, Việt
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    Học bất kỳ ngôn ngữ nào Từ vựng + Ngữ Pháp rất là quan trọng nếu mình có 2 thứ này, chúng ta sẽ nghe được và nói chuyện được thành thạo. vậy cách nhớ như thế nào, hãy tham khảo thử xem. Học tiếng Hàn Quốc: Nhớ từ vựng - một yếu tố quan trọng trong học tiếng Hàn Cách 1: học từ mọi nơi. Bạn cắt giấy thành những miếng nhỏ (giống loại sticker í, nhưng cái nì đắt tiền, mình ko dám mua nên mua giấy vàngg 3000/1 trăm gờ ram), sau đó viết những từ mình cần học lên đó. Dán ở nơi mà mình hay nhìn nhất, ví dụ như trên gương, trên màn hình máy tính, bức tường trước chỗ rửa chén, tủ lạnh, ti vi…cứ đi qua là dòm à. Cách 2: học từ theo chủ đế. Dĩ nhiên là ngôn ngữ của một quốc gia thì mình khó thể nào nắm hết được tất cả, tùy theo điều kiện công tác hoặc việc làm thì mình nên theo hướng đó. Nghề biên phiên dịch đòi hỏi khá cao về vốn từ ở mọi lĩnh vực cho nên việc học hàng ngày là điều nên làm. Bạn nên mua báo, hoặc tìm trên mạng những bài báo theo các chủ đề như: chính trị, kinh tế, văn hóa, xây dựng, lao động, kinh doanh…sau đó cắt ra và dán vào từng cuốn sổ ( mỗi cuốn là 1 chủ đề riêng biệt). Trong từng cuốn, bạn tô đậm những từ ko bít và ghi chú thích nghĩa. Mở từ điển ra, tô đậm chữ đó. Rồi ghi vào trong sổ mình, thứ tự trang trong từ điển của từ đó. Thường xuyên mở ra mở vào đọc đi đọc lại thì nhớ thôi. Cách 3 : học bằng cách tự dịch. Bạn nên làm quen với 1 người nước ngoài, dịch xong nhờ họ xem giúp mình. Nhưng để tăng vốn từ của ngôn ngữ khác thì nên dịch theo kiểu : Việt Anh, Việt
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Futurist Speaker - 1 views

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    Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and Google's top rated Futurist Speaker. Unlike most speakers, Thomas works closely with his Board of Visionaries to develop original research studies. This enables him to speak on unusual topics and translate trends into unique business opportunities.
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