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Theron DesRosier

Ning Update - Creators - 0 views

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update ning

shared by Theron DesRosier on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Apr 10
     
    Ning converting to pay site.
Joshua Yeidel

Ning's Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff - 0 views

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ning web2.0 social networking

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    "One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal, the company is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere. Rosenthal has also just announced that the company has cut nearly 70 people - over 40% of its staff."
Joshua Yeidel

Ning: We Have a $4 Billion Market Opportunity - 1 views

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ning collaboration

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 07 May 10 - Cached
  • Educational institutions are the exception: They will get Ning for free due to the support of an unannounced sponsor.
Joshua Yeidel

EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Challenges '09 - Debate the list, join the community and... - 0 views

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web_2.0 educause higher education

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 09 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Jan 09
     
    Ning network for the EDUCause T&L Challenges project. Everything but the wiki...
Nils Peterson

Jonathon James English Cranston's Page - Urgent Evoke - 0 views

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evoke

shared by Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10
     
    Evoke is built in Ning..worth a look for how they re-dressed it.
  • Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10
     
    EVOKE Powers are the core skills, abilities, and talents that make successful social innovation possible. In other words, they are the key social innovation superpowers.
Gary Brown

Educators Mull How to Motivate Professors to Improve Teaching - Curriculum - The Chroni... - 4 views

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assessment

shared by Gary Brown on 25 Jan 10 - Cached
  • "Without an unrelenting focus on quality—on defining and measuring and ensuring the learning outcomes of students—any effort to increase college-completion rates would be a hollow effort indeed."
  • If colleges are going to provide high-quality educations to millions of additional students, they said, the institutions will need to develop measures of student learning than can assure parents, employers, and taxpayers that no one's time and money are being wasted.
  • "Effective assessment is critical to ensure that our colleges and universities are delivering the kinds of educational experiences that we believe we actually provide for students," said Ronald A. Crutcher, president of Wheaton College, in Massachusetts, during the opening plenary. "That data is also vital to addressing the skepticism that society has about the value of a liberal education."
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  • But many speakers insisted that colleges should go ahead and take drastic steps to improve the quality of their instruction, without using rigid faculty-incentive structures or the fiscal crisis as excuses for inaction.
  • Handing out "teacher of the year" awards may not do much for a college
  • W.E. Deming argued, quality has to be designed into the entire system and supported by top management (that is, every decision made by CEOs and Presidents, and support systems as well as operations) rather than being made the responsibility solely of those delivering 'at the coal face'.
  • I see as a certain cluelessness among those who think one can create substantial change based on volunteerism
  • Current approaches to broaden the instructional repertoires of faculty members include faculty workshops, summer leave, and individual consultations, but these approaches work only for those relatively few faculty members who seek out opportunities to broaden their instructional methods.
  • The approach that makes sense to me is to engage faculty members at the departmental level in a discussion of the future and the implications of the future for their field, their college, their students, and themselves. You are invited to join an ongoing discussion of this issue at http://innovate-ideagora.ning.com/forum/topics/addressing-the-problem-of
  • Putting pressure on professors to improve teaching will not result in better education. The primary reason is that they do not know how to make real improvements. The problem is that in many fields of education there is either not enough research, or they do not have good ways of evaluationg the results of their teaching.
  • Then there needs to be a research based assessment that can be used by individual professors, NOT by the administration.
  • Humanities educatiors either have to learn enough statistics and cognitive science so they can make valid scientific comparisons of different strategies, or they have to work with cognitive scientists and statisticians
  • good teaching takes time
  • On the measurement side, about half of the assessments constructed by faculty fail to meet reasonable minimum standards for validity. (Interestingly, these failures leave the door open to a class action lawsuit. Physicians are successfully sued for failing to apply scientific findings correctly; commerce is replete with lawsuits based on measurement errors.)
  • The elephant in the corner of the room --still-- is that we refuse to measure learning outcomes and impact, especially proficiencies generalized to one's life outside the classroom.
  • until universities stop playing games to make themselves look better because they want to maintain their comfortable positions and actually look at what they can do to improve nothing is going to change.
  • Gary Brown on 25 Jan 10
     
    our work, our friends (Ken and Jim), and more context that shapes our strategy.
  • Matthew Tedder on 26 Jan 10
     
    How about using examples of highly motivational lecture and teaching techniques like the Richard Dawkins video I presented on this forum, recently. Even if teacher's do not consciously try to adopt good working techniques, there is at least a strong subconscious human tendency to mimic behaviors. I think that if teachers see more effective techniques, they will automatically begin to adopt adopt them.
Matthew Tedder

Six Rules For Social Networks - Forbes.com - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...t-technology-social-media.html

programming social networking

shared by Matthew Tedder on 04 Oct 09 - No Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 04 Oct 09
     
    Seems a level-headed and thoughtful look at what might make for successful social networking..
Nils Peterson

From SMCEDU: 5 Steps to Make the Social Web Work for Higher Ed - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...bring_the_web_to_higher_ed.php

shared by Nils Peterson on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • At a kickoff event tonight in Richmond, Virginia, I got to participate in a panel discussion and hear questions from an audience of college students and professors. One of the questions posed was how those in academia can best put the social web to work for themselves. Far beyond Facebook and LinkedIn, how can this community harness the Internet to be smarter, more efficient, and more productive? Read on for our top five ideas.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 12 Nov 09
       
      The 5 steps 1. Find your network, they say Twitter is a good way to do this 2. Keep up, they say RSS of the blogs of key players you found 3. Create your identity, get beyound the one you have with Facebook and consider yourname.com 4. Contribute content to the conversation, start a blog or website 5. Continue to explore and adopt new tools
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