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Nils Peterson

Excerpt from Informal Learning - 2 views

  • WORKERS LEARN MORE in the coffee room than in the classroom. They discover how to do their jobs through informal learning: asking the person in the next cubicle, trial and error, calling the help desk, working with people in the know, and joining the conversation.
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      Jay Cross, _Informal Learning_ ca 2003
  • Training programs, workshops, and schools get the lion’s share of the corporate budget for developing talent, despite the fact that this formal learning has almost no impact on job performance. And informal learning, the major source of knowledge transfer and innovation, is left to chance. This book aims to raise your consciousness about informal teaming. You will discover that informal learning is a profit strategy, that it flexes with change, and that it respects and challenges workers. You will see how hard-nosed businesses use organizational network analysis, conversation space, and communities of purpose to fuel innovation and agility.
  • Taking advantage of the double meaning of the word network, “to learn” is to optimize the quality of one’s networks.
Nils Peterson

An emerging model for open courses @ Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

  • if I was going to advise any *learner* about pursuing their interest (and by definition, in an “open” situation the set of learners is not prescribed), I’d urge them to find an *existing* robust community of people already talking about that subject, and then focus on helping them develop skills to engage, as a newcomer, with existing coversations and communities.
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      Says Scott Leslie. I think we have been saying similar things.
  • Can the two ideas– open, networked learning communities and open courses affiliated with and/or products from institutions not only co-exist, but feed off of one another? I get the asymmetry aspect, I really do, but I’m not convinced that institutions have no worth or that the situation for continuing– maybe even increasing– that worth is hopeless
  • @Scott Leslie. Thanks for your comment on the language of ‘courses’, or in my case ‘modules’. It has helped me realise that my approach to open education post my looming retirement may be trapped in the wrong mindset. I have been trying to think of how I can convert a module I teach at Leeds Uni that dies when I retire to an OE resource ‘in the wild’. I have been thinking about how it can be packaged as an OE module that a community of network of open learners can engage with and exploit/re-purpose according to individual and collective needs. I assumed that I and others would somehow organically become mentors (open tutors?) and flexibly help out as required. Perhaps I should be trying to develop links with existing communities engages in discussions and project around the discipline of my module and try and contribute there somehow. I think your comment illustrates the difficult transition in moving between open education as content (based on a formal education model) and open education as process that engages disparate audiences with varied agendas and objectives.
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      Seems to be someone who wants to explore the fine line of releasing his modules into the wild. It might be interesting to engage him
Theron DesRosier

Searching for India's Hole in the Wall | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 2 views

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    "The contrast here was for me pretty stark: One the one hand, you had two computers set up outside which received minimal maintenance, and which anyone could use from 9-5 each day. There was no direction on how to use this equipment, but that didn't stop kids from figuring it out via trial and error (or, more often, from other kids). On the other hand, you had a dozen computers locked up in a school just a short walk away, gathering dust for lack of 'qualified teachers' to use them, and direct their use."
Nils Peterson

Wikipedia:WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles.
    • Nils Peterson
       
      This is an interesting project, more ambitious than Theron/RIch King/CES effort to contribute to wikipedia.
Nils Peterson

CITE Journal -- Volume 2, Issue 4 - 0 views

  • The ability to aggregate data for assessment is counted as a plus for CS and a minus for GT
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      This analysis preceeds the Harvesting concept.
  • The map includes the portfolio's ability to aid learners in planning, setting goals, and navigating the artifacts learners create and collect.
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      Recently, when I have been thinking about program assessment I've been thinking how students might assess courses (before adding the couse to their transcript (aka portfolio) in terms of the student's learning needs for developing proficiency in the 6 WSU goals. Students might also do a course evaluation relative to the 6 goals to give instrutors and fellow students guideposts. SO, the notion here, portfolio as map, would be that the portfolio had a way for the learner to track/map progress toward a goal. Perhaps a series of radar charts associated with a series of artifacts. Learner reflection would lead to conclusion about what aspect of the rubric needed more practice in the creation of the next artifacts going into the portfolio.
Gary Brown

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 1 views

    • Gary Brown
       
      like practice
Gary Brown

Some say bypassing a higher education is smarter than paying for a degree - 1 views

    • Gary Brown
       
      Of course many faculty have been calling for this for a long time, wanting to teach students who elect to be here for reasons other than presumably maximizing their learning potential.
  • "If you major in accounting or engineering, you're pretty likely to get a return on your investment," Vedder says. "If you're majoring in anthropology or social work or education, the rate on return is going to be a good deal lower, on average.
  • The unemployment rate among those with bachelor's degrees is at an all-time high
Nils Peterson

Redesigning Scientific Reputation - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences - 0 views

  • Thus, one’s reputation is not measured by credentials, but by one’s contribution both to expanding knowledge and to the community.
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      The systems the cite suggest that they understand open assessment, though they don't specifically say that in this piece. One of these authors (Adler) will be at the PaloAlto meeting Monday.
Joshua Yeidel

Analyzing Outcome Information: Getting the Most from Data - 1 views

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    Fifth in a series on outcome management. "This guide is unique in offering suggestions to nonprofits for analyzing regularly collected outcome data. The guide focuses on those basic analysis activities that nearly all programs, whether large or small, can do themselves. It offers straightforward, common-sense suggestions. "
Lorena O'English

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced assessment and fe... - 1 views

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    from JISC (pdf)
Theron DesRosier

Chart: Comparing teachers - latimes.com - 3 views

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    Could it really be that people are seduced by this one-factor explanation: "The difference is their teachers" ? If so, _that's_ a truly sad commentary on our educational system.
Theron DesRosier

the creative internet (106 things) - 1 views

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    The world is full of interesting things. Use google chrome for this if possible. It will take a little time to download but it has a lot of creative material worth viewing.
Nils Peterson

Jeff Sheldon on the Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation instrument | A... - 4 views

shared by Nils Peterson on 01 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The ROLE consists of 78 items grouped into six major constructs: 1) Culture, 2) Leadership, 3) Systems and Structures, 4) Communication, 5) Teams, and 6) Evaluation.
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      You can look up the book in Amazon and then view inside and search for Appendix A and read the items in the survey. http://www.amazon.com/Evaluation-Organizations-Systematic-Enhancing-Performance/dp/0738202681#reader_0738202681 This might be useful to OAI in assessing readiness (or understanding what in the university culture challenges readiness) OR it might inform our revision (or justify staying out) of our rubric. An initial glance would indicate that there are some cultural constructs in the university that are counter-indicated by the analysis of the ROLE instrument.
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    " Readiness for Organizational Learning and Evaluation (ROLE). The ROLE (Preskill & Torres, 2000) was designed to help us determine the level of readiness for implementing organizational learning, evaluation practices, and supporting processes"
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    An interesting possibility for a Skylight survey (but more reading needed)
Nils Peterson

Community Colleges Must Focus on Quality of Learning, Report Says - Students - The Chro... - 0 views

  • Over all, 67 percent of community-college students said their coursework often involved analyzing the basic elements of an idea, experience, or theory; 59 percent said they frequently synthesized ideas, information, and experiences in new ways. Other averages were lower: 56 percent of students, for example, reported being regularly asked to examine the strengths or weaknesses of their own views on a topic. And just 52 percent of students said they often had to make judgments about the value or soundness of information as part of their academic work.
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      one wonders, who is the stakeholder that commissioned this assessment and thinks these are important -- looks like the CITR might be underlying their thinking.
Nils Peterson

There is No College Cost Crisis - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • “[A] modern university must provide students with an up-to-date education that familiarizes students with the techniques and associated machinery that are used in the workplace the students must enter.”
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      the author means information technologies, but one might also talk about certain habits of mind which are associated with trends in the workplace the students must enter.
  • The causes of the increase in college costs (an increase that has not, they contend, put college “out of reach”) are external; colleges are responding, as they must, to changes they cannot ignore and still provide a quality product.
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      Makes me want to re-visit Christiansen's Innovator's Dilemma, who talks about a business focusing on serving its best customer and losing focus on emerging products and markets that operate at lower price points.
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    Stanley Fish reviews "Why Does College Cost So Much?" bu Archibald and Feldman, two economists who conclude "there is no college cost crisis".
Nils Peterson

Nonacademic Members Push Changes in Anthropology Group - Faculty - The Chronicle of Hig... - 1 views

  • Cathleen Crain, an anthropologist who runs a consulting firm near Washington: "There is a growing vision of a unified anthropology, where academics informs practice and practice informs academics."
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      Anthropology is having a conversation about stakeholders and this is impacting the national anthro organization. I wonder if its producing metrics that might inform student learning outcomes work.
Nils Peterson

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

  • The two-year foundation degree in managing business operations is a demonstration of how seriously the company takes the training of its staff
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      tying the degree to a stakeholder's needs. wonder what Macdonalds has a learning outcomes.
Nils Peterson

U. of Phoenix Reports on Students' Academic Progress - Measuring Stick - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

  • In comparisons of seniors versus freshmen within the university, the 2,428 seniors slightly outperformed 4,003 freshmen in all categories except natural sciences, in which they were equivalent.
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      This is the value added measure.
  • The University of Phoenix has released its third “Academic Annual Report,” a document that continues to be notable not so much for the depth of information it provides on its students’ academic progress but for its existence at all.
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      Provides a range of measures, inc. demographics, satisfaction, indirect measures of percieved utility and direct measures using national tests.
  • The Phoenix academic report also includes findings on students’ performance relative to hundreds of thousands of students at nearly 400 peer institutions on two standardized tests
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  • University of Phoenix seniors slightly underperformed a comparison group of 42,649 seniors at peer institutions in critical thinking, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and moderately underperformed the peer group in reading, writing, and mathematics.
Judy Rumph

Measure or Perish - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

shared by Judy Rumph on 14 Dec 10 - No Cached
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    I found this apropos.
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