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Gary Brown

Digital Identity; benwerd's page - AAEEBL - 0 views

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ePortfolios digital identity

shared by Gary Brown on 01 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Digital Identity; benwerd's page Web-based portfolios are establishing themselves as a way to present a student's learning and offer opportunities for reflection and dissemination. The web, meanwhile, is moving from a site based model to one that centers around digital identities: web-based representations of ourselves and our work.This page is a work in progress that aims to introduce educators to some of the issues and resources relating to web-based identity.
  • Gary Brown on 01 Jul 09
     
    Digital identity management in ePortfolio contexts, from AAEEBL
  • Gary Brown on 01 Jul 09
     
    If you're not following AAEEBL, this is a good chance to check out an issue we want to track.
Gary Brown

As Colleges Switch to Online Course Evaluations, Students Stop Filling Them Out - The T... - 1 views

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evaluating teaching

shared by Gary Brown on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Colleges thought they were enhancing efficiency when they moved their course evaluations online, but an unintended consequence of the shift to evaluations not filled out in class is that students started skipping them altogether, The Boston Globe reported today.
  • Gary Brown on 09 Apr 10
     
    the letters are more interesting than the article--especially the Boston Globe link where Mazur weighs in.
  • Kimberly Green on 12 Apr 10
     
    The whole issue of online evals is a big one, esp relevant as part of prog eval. Perhaps a design circle topic? (...I couldn't find Mazur's comments)
Nils Peterson

Mod7: One-to-one Technologies - ETEC522 - Ventures in Learning Technology - September 2009 - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • The reason that 1-1 environments is such an important emerging market is that it’s almost certain that most learners of the world will have some kind of device put in their hands over the next decade.
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      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      This is a class on ed tech. This post starts out on the topic of hardware. The significance of this sentence caught my attention becaue my 8-year old daughter has added to her go to school ritual the finding of her cell phone. The phone does not have service, but it will play a simple game and make sounds, It seems to be a talisman for her awareness of the connected world around her
Gary Brown

How Colleges Could Better Prepare Students to Tackle Society's Problems - Students - Th... - 1 views

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experiential-learning

shared by Gary Brown on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Employers increasingly want to hire students who are highly adaptive, who can work in a fast-paced environment, be creative and problem-solve—and these are not necessarily core skills universities focus on. Most universities focus on knowledge acquisition, but what the world requires is much more about learning how to work within a fast-changing environment and be a leader in that context.
  • social entrepreneurship is relevant in different disciplines
  • We're not just bringing them into the classroom, but we're involving them in more research collaborations and conversations, so the learning students do is guided by that.
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  • I just heard from a faculty member at Cornell who has increased the amount of experiential learning she requires for class projects. More students are asking for it, and she's using every opportunity to get people out in the community or talking to people so they can engage in real-world experience.
  • Maryland has created a Center for Social Value Creation
  • Siloed disciplines are one of our biggest challenges. The world doesn't operate in disciplines—its problems and organizations are cross-cutting. The more interdisciplinary people can think and learn, the more equipped they will be to deal with the complexity of the real world.
Gary Brown

Why Don't Students Study Anymore? - Percolator - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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students

shared by Gary Brown on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Here's what they found: In 1961, the average full-time college student spent 40 hours per week on academic work (that's time in class and studying). In 2003, it was 27 hours. The authors figure that 21st-century students spend an average of 10 hours fewer every week studying than their 1961 counterparts. Over the course of a four-year college career, that would add up to something like 1,500 fewer hours spent hitting the books.
  • the difference isn't caused by more people stretching out their college experience. Also, according to the authors, the difference can't be explained by the fact that more students have jobs or by the fact that the makeup of the student body has changed since the sixties. From the paper: "The large decline in academic time investment is an important pattern its own right, and one that motivates future research into underlying causes."In other words, we don't know why. 
  • Here's the abstract for the working paper, which was written by Philip S. Babcock and Mindy Marks
  • Gary Brown on 30 Apr 10
     
    the reasons may be in the readers comments, or maybe not.
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