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Joshua Yeidel

News: Are Today's Grads Unprofessional? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...professionalism

higher_education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09
     
    "The results of the survey [of employers], released Friday, suggest that colleges need to change how they prepare their students for the working world, particularly by reinforcing soft skills like honoring workplace etiquette and having a positive demeanor. " -- Oh, yes, and get rid of the tatoos and piercings.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09
     
    Relevant to Gary's post about Career Services and Liberal Arts -- can "professionalism" be part of the curriculum?
Peggy Collins

Northwestern U Creates Integration Utility To Link Blackboard and Google Apps -- Campus... - 1 views

campustechnology.com/...lackboard-and-google-apps.aspx

shared by Peggy Collins on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 04 Nov 09
     
    Users at Northwestern University will be able to log into both Blackboard Learn and Google Apps with a single signon thanks to the efforts of the institution's IT development team. The code created by the team as a Blackboard Building Block and named Bboogle has also been released as open source to let other institutions use or build on the technology at no cost.
Corinna Lo

Official Google Blog: Transparency, choice and control - now complete with a Dashboard! - 2 views

googleblog.blogspot.com/...cy-choice-and-control-now.html

google

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  • Corinna Lo on 06 Nov 09
     
    "In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard. Designed to be simple and useful, the Dashboard summarizes data for each product that you use (when signed in to your account) and provides you direct links to control your personal settings. "
Gary Brown

News: Defining Accountability - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...aei

accountability accreditation

shared by Gary Brown on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • they should do so in ways that reinforce the behaviors they want to see -- and avoid the kinds of perverse incentives that are so evident in many policies today.
  • This is especially true, several speakers argued, on the thorniest of higher education accountability questions -- those related to improving student outcomes.
  • Oh, and one or two people actually talked about how nice it would be if policy makers still envisioned college as a place where people learn about citizenship or just become educated for education's sake.)
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  • only if the information they seek to collect is intelligently framed, which the most widely used current measure -- graduation rates -- is not
  • "work force ready"
  • Accountability is not quite as straightforward as we think," said Rhoades, who described himself as "not a 'just say no' guy" about accountability. "It's not a question of whether [colleges and faculty should be held accountable], but how, and by whom," he said. "It's about who's developing the measures, and what behaviors do they encourage?"
  • federal government needs to be the objective protector of taxpayers' dollars,"
  • Judith Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, said that government regulation would be a major mistake, but said that accreditors needed to come to agreement on "community-driven, outcomes-based standards" to which colleges should be held.
  • But while they complain when policy makers seek to develop measures that compare one institution against another, colleges "keep lists of peers with which they compare themselves" on many fronts, Miller said.
  • Gary Brown on 19 Nov 09
     
    High level debates again
Joshua Yeidel

Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction - Ars Technica - 0 views

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wiki

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 18 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 18 Nov 09
     
    "The wiki crops up in many companies' internal discussions about process improvements and efficient collaboration, but it is often shot down because so few people have exposure to good models of what a really successful business wiki can do. Ars is here to help with a practical introduction based on real-world examples."
Gary Brown

News: Fans and Fears of 'Lecture Capture' - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...capture

lecture faculty development

shared by Gary Brown on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • “Well-attended lectures were well-watched; poorly attended lectures were not watched,” Stringer said, pointing to research she had conducted at Stanford. "If you’re bad, you’re bad. If you’re bad online, you’re bad in lectures, students don’t come.”
  • Our students at Berkeley tell us that this is supplemental material, and it doesn’t affect their decision to attend class,” said Mara Hancock, director for educational technologies at the University of California at Berkeley
  • The faculty’s general unwillingness to work with lecture capture technology prompted Purdue to enlist the educational technology firm Echo360 to formulate a work-around solution that would require minimal cooperation from professors.
  • Gary Brown on 17 Nov 09
     
    I have nothing to add to this.
Gary Brown

Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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students technology

shared by Gary Brown on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • 8 percent of students indicated that their instructors "understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes."
  • 74 percent of higher education instructors polled indicated that they "incorporate technology into every class or nearly every class," and 67 percent said they were "satisfied with their technology professional development."
  • The report also found that students now more than ever are using technology regularly in preparation for class: 81 percent of them this year said they use technology every day before class to prepare compared with 63 percent last year.
  • Gary Brown on 17 Nov 09
     
    The lack of mental models is revealed here in numbers. What faculty perceive as substantial technology integration is perceived somewhat differently by students according to this study.
Matthew Tedder

5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases - 2 views

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media

shared by Matthew Tedder on 16 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 16 Nov 09
     
    5 use cases for wave..
Nils Peterson

Office of the President: Perspectives Home - 1 views

president.wsu.edu/perspectives

shared by Nils Peterson on 22 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Clearly, a world-class research university cannot long stand on such a shaky IT foundation. In fact, in the  generally glowing accreditation report filed by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities about our university this summer, one recommendation read: “The Committee recommends that Washington State University provide contemporary information management systems that will address the needs of the future for its student, academic and management support requirements.”
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Nov 09
       
      Perhaps the President recalls the Spring preliminary accreditation report more clearly than the final report sent to him in the summer and linked at accreditation.wsu.edu which does not have the "glowing" comments but does say "...the Commission finds that Recommendations 1,2, and 3 of the Spring 2009 Comprehensive Evaluation Report are areas where Washington State University is substantially in compliance with Commission criteria for accreditation, but in need of improvement. The two additional Recommendations follow below. Recommendation 2 states that the implementation of the educational assessment plan remains inconsistent across the University despite promising starts and a number of exemplary successes in selected programs. The Commission therefore recommends that the Universìty continue to enhance and strengthen its assessment process. This process needs to be extended to all of the University's educational programs, including graduate programs, and programs offered at the branch campuses (Standard 2.8).
Gary Brown

WSU Today Online - Current Article List - 0 views

www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/...Publications.asp

writing assessment

shared by Gary Brown on 02 Dec 09 - Cached
  • the goal of the program is for students to submit their portfolios at the start of their junior year, and only about 34 percent are managing to do that.
  • Writing Assessment Program received the 2009 “Writing Program Certificate of Excellence”
  • If students delay completing their portfolio until late in their junior year, or into their senior year, she said, “it undermines the instructional integrity of the assessment.”
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  • 70 percent of students submitted a paper as part of their portfolio that had been completed in a non-WSU course
  • Gary Brown on 02 Dec 09
     
    I ponder these highlights
Kimberly Green

THe Business of Higher Education - 0 views

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education

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  • Kimberly Green on 02 Dec 09
     
    The Business of Higher Education (Praeger), a new three-part collection of essays edited by John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel, presents a wide range of perspectives on the complex impact of business models on higher education. The authors -- respectively, the Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership at Samford University, and an associate professor of educational leadership at East Carolina University -- are neither pro- nor anti-business; they describe themselves, instead, as "ambivalent, conflicted, and (perhaps more positively) open to the merits of strong arguments." Those they (and readers) get, from such shrinking violets as E. Gordon Gee, Marc Bousquet and Cary Nelson.
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