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Gary Brown

A concept cluster quiz ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes - 1 views

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language

shared by Gary Brown on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Not everybody is happy when I say words have different meanings for each person that uses them. But it's hard to escape that conclusion when you actually look at language.
  • Geoffrey K. Pullum writes, "The people who think clarity involves lack of ambiguity, so we have to strive to eliminate all multiple meanings and should never let a word develop a new sense... they simply don't get it about how language works, do they?" A good lesson for the Semantic Web people, no?
  • Gary Brown on 19 May 10
     
    As we continue to refine the rubric, this short post is a useful reminder of the challenge....and the limits. We struggle in part because the formal assessment experience of many of our partners is not wide or deep, which in turns increases the language challenges.
Nils Peterson

Don Tapscott: The Impending Demise of the University - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...ding-demise-of-t_b_213702.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 11 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Why should a university student be restricted to learning from the professors at the university he or she is attending. True, students can obviously learn from intellectuals around the world through books, or via the Internet. Yet in a digital world, why shouldn't a student be able to take a course from a professor at another university?
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 11 Jun 09
       
      This points to some of the ideas we have been diagramming relative to harvesting feedback and learning in community. It also points at issues like student "swirling" (taking classes from many universities) and how that might be integrated via a portfolio
Joshua Yeidel

Effect Size Resources - CEM - 3 views

www.cemcentre.org/...effect-size-resources

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 19 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 19 Aug 10
     
    "'Effect Size' is a way of expressing the difference between two groups. In particular, if the groups have been systematically treated differently in an experiment, the Effect Size indicates how effective the experimental treatment was."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 19 Aug 10
     
    An interesting approach to comparing parametric statistics between groups
Gary Brown

Video Chat with Education Author Alfie Kohn - 1 views

www.convergemag.com/...ucation-Author-Alfie-Kohn.html

motivation homework

shared by Gary Brown on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "The reality is that outcomes in education are determined in large part by the attitudes and goals and perspectives of the real living human beings, the learners in our classrooms,"
  • So if they regard homework as pointless, as frustrating, as unlikely to be beneficial, as something they thoroughly detest, it would be extroardinary to find research that finds an achievement effect despite the way they regard it, and in fact the research provides just what would be predicated from a non-behaviorist point of view, namely that it doesn't tend to be beneficial."
  • Gary Brown on 23 Feb 10
     
    Kohn, as usual, challenges convention, probably intractable assumptions about how people learn. But please don't confuse us with facts.
Matthew Tedder

Richard Dawkins: Growing up in the universe | Video on TED.com - 4 views

www.ted.com/...rowing_up_in_the_universe.html

science

shared by Matthew Tedder on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 25 Jan 10
     
    How many teachers are this enthusiastic, well-prepared, or facilitated? What principles are responsible for the inspirational power of this presentation? Should inspiration be part of education?
  • Gary Brown on 26 Jan 10
     
    but it is still a lecture, and only a few of us, about 2%, learn well from even great lectures. The trick is to design activities that help learners discover this. But the fact that 2% do learn to mimic the lecture, as you note, with more or less success, is precisely why lecture is so difficult to supplant. That 2% represents the faculty and those who lead the institutions they work in......
Gary Brown

Faith in Prior Learning Was Well Placed - Letters to the Editor - The Chronicle of High... - 1 views

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outcomes

shared by Gary Brown on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The recognition that a college that offered credit for experiential learning could stand with traditional institutions, while commonplace today, was a leap of faith then. Empire State had to demonstrate its validity through results—educational outcomes—and on that score, it stood tall. In fact, focusing on outcomes, as we did, led many of us to question how well traditional institutions would measure up!
  • Gary Brown on 27 Apr 10
     
    an important question.
Nils Peterson

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 3 | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...who-needs-harvard.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • If open courseware is about applying technology to sharing knowledge, and Peer2Peer is about social networking for teaching and learning, Bob Mendenhall, president of the online Western Governors University, is proudest of his college's innovation in the third, hardest-to-crack dimension of education: accreditation and assessment.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Spoke too soon
  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Aug 09
     
    "We said, 'Let's create a university that actually measures learning,' " Mendenhall says. "We do not have credit hours, we do not have grades. We simply have a series of assessments that measure competencies, and on that basis, award the degree." WGU began by convening a national advisory board of employers, including Google and Tenet Healthcare. "We asked them, 'What is it the graduates you're hiring can't do that you wish they could?' We've never had a silence after that question." Then assessments were created to measure each competency area. Mendenhall recalls one student who had been self-employed in IT for 15 years but never earned a degree; he passed all the required assessments in six months and took home his bachelor's without taking a course.
Gary Brown

Thoughts on the "Problem" of Grade Inflation | Sener Learning Services - 0 views

senerlearning.com/?q=node/142

grades grade inflation

shared by Gary Brown on 25 Jul 09 - Cached
  • grades have little correlation with adult life achievement, or accomplishment, with postgraduate earnings (at least for the first three years), with actual learning, even with future employment in many fields. In the latter case, they are used mostly as a screening device rather than as an indicator of merit. The screen has expanded for the same reasons that professional sports have expanded their pools of playoff teams (think major league baseball "wild cards", or soccer teams that finish 3rd and 4th place in their national leagues qualifying for (and recently winning) the UEFA Champions League). Grades are also in their present state because their original purposes are no longer valid (assuming that they ever were, which is in itself dubious). The need is no longer to extract the cream and exclude the rest; it is to figure out how to effectively educate as many learners as possible.
  • Gary Brown on 25 Jul 09
     
    An insightful blog post with citations of great use
Nils Peterson

Washington State's Dilemma: How to Serve Up a Book Criticizing the Food Industry - Chro... - 0 views

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chronicle community

shared by Nils Peterson on 26 May 09 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 26 May 09
     
    The last paragraph is a good one and the core question I think we have been working on with harvesting gradebook - make not only the student work, but the assignment and the assessment criteria open as community property. Why not have community involved in the conversation about what is important to study?
Matthew Tedder

Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement - 0 views

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brain aesthetics programming

shared by Matthew Tedder on 25 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 25 Aug 09
     
    The relevance and importance of visual design. I've long suggested that all service design (including software) begin with a walk through of what the customer/user comes to and sees in succession.
  • Matthew Tedder on 25 Aug 09
     
    A good explanation of how services are best designed with aesthetics as the means to functionality. I always remember from the military that building an effective fighting position required "walking the perimeter"--having one guy in the fighting position taking notes while another approaches systematically from every possible direction. Most importantly, what will the enemy (or customer) see step by step and what steps will he/she take in turn. Always center on the customer's experience (this is rarely done).
Nils Peterson

What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers' Decline - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 30 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Peter Drucker said, "Thirty years from now, the big university campuses will be relics. ... Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 31 Mar 09
       
      Try the Harvesting Gradebook, our experiment in improving the content and quality by opening the problems and the assessment process to the community. http://wsuctlt.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/test-drive-the-harvesting-gradebook/
  • the institution is making a lot of money — which is then used to pay for faculty scholarship, graduate education, administrative salaries, the football coach, and other expensive things that cost more than they bring in.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 31 Mar 09
       
      There is other capital that the university could access -- Intellectual Capital and Social Capital. See thoughts on how learning in community could garner this http://www.nilspeterson.com/2009/03/29/extending-the-ripple-effect/
  • Joshua Yeidel on 30 Mar 09
     
    You may have heard me say that I fear that WSU might 'sail itself under the water' by not adapting to its changing environment. Here's a short but carefully-reasoned examination of parallels between universities and newspapers, which are doing just that.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 30 Mar 09
     
    Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear.
Gary Brown

Researchers Criticize Reliability of National Survey of Student Engagement - Students -... - 3 views

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NSSE

shared by Gary Brown on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • "If each of the five benchmarks does not measure a distinct dimension of engagement and includes substantial error among its items, it is difficult to inform intervention strategies to improve undergraduates' educational experiences,"
  • nly one benchmark, enriching educational experiences, had a significant effect on the seniors' cumulative GPA.
  • Other critics have asserted that the survey's mountains of data remain largely ignored.
  • Gary Brown on 18 Nov 10
     
    If the results are largely ignored, the psychometric integrity matters little.  There is no indication it is ignored because it lacks psychometric integrity.
Nils Peterson

BBC News - McDonald's to launch own degree - 2 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...education-11810930

shared by Nils Peterson on 27 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The two-year foundation degree in managing business operations is a demonstration of how seriously the company takes the training of its staff
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 27 Nov 10
       
      tying the degree to a stakeholder's needs. wonder what Macdonalds has a learning outcomes.
Joshua Yeidel

Wired Campus: Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Econo... - 0 views

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higher education

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 27 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Feb 09
     
    Where will higher education be the day after the current global economic crisis passes? If you think things will simply go back to the way they were once the economy recovers in a year or two, think again.
Nils Peterson

Service | Change.gov - 0 views

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obama service learning

shared by Nils Peterson on 07 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 07 Nov 08
     
    CTLT has experience with how to implement this goal integrated with curriculum. From HD and DecSci to new experiments with Harvesting Gradebook.
  • Nils Peterson on 07 Nov 08
     
    Require 100 Hours of Service in College: Obama and Biden will establish a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.
Kimberly Green

Everyone Else is Keynsian Now (from Inside Higher Ed) - 0 views

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higher_education

shared by Kimberly Green on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kimberly Green on 24 Feb 10
     
    The United States is hardly the only country facing tough economic times right now. But a survey of the worldwide response to the recession suggests that American higher education may be uniquely disadvantaged by the way state and federal governments are responding in the U.S., compared to how the rest of the world is dealing with the crisis. Most governments elsewhere have avoided the "uncoordinated cutting of funding for higher education that we generally see in U.S. state systems," says a report being released today by the Center for Studies in Higher Education, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Matthew Tedder

Students failing because of Twitter, texting - Canada - Canoe.ca - 0 views

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education

shared by Matthew Tedder on 01 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 01 Feb 10
     
    Is this a bad thing? After all, we let English evolve and how can this evolution continue if we demand uniformity with the past? Personally, I'd love to see a well-informed engineering of architectural aspects of English--even the engineering of an "International English" for business that is simplified for all the world's people to learn.
Gary Brown

Classroom Creativity : The Frontal Cortex - 1 views

scienceblogs.com/...classroom_creativity.php

creative thinking critical thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 26 May 10 - Cached
  • Classroom Creativity
  • Eric Barker recently referred me to this interesting study, which looked at how elementary school teachers perceived creativity in their students. While the teachers said they wanted creative kids in their classroom, they actually didn't. I
  • The point is that the classroom isn't designed for impulsive expression - that's called talking out of turn.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • The danger, however, is that we're teaching our kids a very narrow and stultifying model of cognition, in which conscientiousness is privileged above all.
  • In recent years, however, it's become clear that daydreaming is actually an important element of the creative process, allowing the brain to remix ideas, explore counterfactuals and turn the spotlight of attention inwards.
  • The solution, I suppose, is rather banal: we really do need arts education in our schools,
  • Gary Brown on 26 May 10
     
    The Teaching Academy has refined critical and creative thinking with a draft definition that presumes they are two different thought processes. In my exploration of the purported diision, I encountered the writings of this neuroscientist.
Sarah Usher

Police Jobs Through Police-Recruitment UK - 1 views

I was searching for police force jobs that will suit the qualifications that I have. I searched in offices and online until I came across Police-Recruitment UK. I was able to set my sights on a sp...

police force jobs

started by Sarah Usher on 06 Sep 11 no follow-up yet
Theron DesRosier

Linux, Learning, and Sugar Kids | HASTAC - 0 views

www.hastac.org/...linux-learning-and-sugar-kids

shared by Theron DesRosier on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Like many of the conversations we have here at HASTAC, this project focuses on learning through collaboration, experimentation, and pleasure. For example, rather than applications or tools, each program is called an activity and runs at full-screen, two design choices that derive from this pedagogical orientation. Collaboration is also assumed by the OS; you can invite friends to just about any activity (like writing, painting, web browsing), and everyone who joins will see the same thing.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 Sep 09
       
      collaboration, experimentation and pleasure -- sound more like group play which is a theme running through some of the other HASTAC stuff I have been reading.
    • Theron DesRosier
      Theron DesRosier on 11 Sep 09
       
      Thanks Nils, I like the way the interface zooms to different levels of community participation. It assumes and supports collaborative work. Toward the end of the "short video of it in action" (link above), it shows how the system collects everything you do in your "Journal". The Journal identifies the collaborators you worked with on the project along with other information.
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