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Nils Peterson

Engineers without borders - WSU Students solving real problem - 0 views

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problem-posing wsu engineers without borders

shared by Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09 - Cached
  • We are trying to make a very cheap, reliable source of energy that won’t need a lot of maintenance
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09
       
      General problem statement, wider than wind turbine, which would then get contextualized by various factors to be the specific project
  • Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09
     
    This is an example of the problem solving and WSU intellectual capital that we have been talking about
  • Nils Peterson on 27 Mar 09
     
    here is this year's version of the Kayafunga water project
Theron DesRosier

pagi: eLearning - 0 views

pagi.wikidot.com/elearning

citing CTLT

shared by Theron DesRosier on 02 Mar 09 - Cached
  • ePortfolio ePortfolios, the Harvesting Gradebook, Accountability, and Community (!!!) Harvesting gradebook Learning from the transformative grade book Implementing the transformed grade book Transformed gradebook worked example (!!) Best example: Calaboz ePortfolio (!!) Guide to Rating Integrative & Critical Thinking (!!!) Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education Hub and spoke model of course design (!!!) ePortfolio as the core learning application Case Studies of Electronic Portfolios for Learning
  • Theron DesRosier on 02 Mar 09
     
    Nils found this. It is a Spanish concept map on eLearning that includes CTLT and the Harvesting Gradebook.
Theron DesRosier

Internal Communications - 0 views

www.wsu.edu/...Electronic-Tools.html

shared by Theron DesRosier on 18 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Post your event on the WSU calendar as soon as a date is set
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      RSS from Calendar is empty
    • Joshua Yeidel
      Joshua Yeidel on 18 Feb 09
       
      Cool, Nils!
  • Send details to WSU Today for use in Web site sections such as
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      RSS has items in strange sort order, Yahoo Pipes can re-sort. Bob Frank notified
  • Submit your brief announcements to the popular campus e-mail newsletter
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      No RSS from this
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  • The myWSU portal provides a means to send official notices targeted
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      Link should go to Becoming a Notice sender
  • Create a special email list
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      Is there a way to get RSS from Mailman?
Gary Brown

WSU Today Online - Faculty, staff help requested on engagement survey - 2 views

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

assessment

shared by Gary Brown on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Measuring student engagement is important for WSU
  • Gary Brown on 02 Mar 10
     
    fyi in case you missed
Nils Peterson

Fortify Your Institutional H1N1 Plan with Lecture Capture: Mediasite at Washington Stat... - 1 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Fortify Your Institutional H1N1 Plan with Lecture Capture: Mediasite at Washington State University Tuesday, November 10, 200911:00 – 11:45 a.m. Central Washington State University’s main campus is currently experiencing what the New York Times called perhaps the largest college outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus. More than 2,000 students report symptoms of swine flu, which has led the entire Washington State system to take measures to avoid the spread of the disease between and beyond campuses. And for WSU Spokane, which specializes in health science programs, lecture capture has become central to their pandemic and academic continuity planning. The campus began using the Mediasite webcasting platform just a year ago when its new nursing building came online. Since that time, capturing courses – both on-campus and from faculty home offices – is a key element to span the time, distance and space constraints that are dramatic factors when flu preparedness is introduced on today’s scale. Saleh Elgiadi, Director of IT Services for WSU Spokane, has agreed to share his fundamental principles and practices included in the campus’ comprehensive H1N1 and disaster recovery plans
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 27 Oct 09
       
      Its an ad for a webinar about a product. Learn how we are doing pandemic planning at WSU!
Gary Brown

WSU Today Online - Current Article List - 1 views

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

accreditation NCATE

shared by Gary Brown on 19 Nov 09 - Cached
  • National and state agencies have renewed accreditation for WSU's College of Education, which earned praise as “a standout institution.” The ratings came after voluntary reviews by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and Washington State’s Professional Educator Standards Board (PESB). Both accreditation teams, which work cooperatively, visited WSU last spring.
  • accredited institutions must: * Carefully assess this knowledge and skill to determine that candidates may graduate. * Have partnerships with schools that enable candidates to develop the skills necessary to help students learn. * Prepare candidates to understand and work with diverse student populations. * Have faculty who model effective teaching practices. * Have the resources, including information technology resources, necessary to prepare candidates to meet new standards.
  • Gary Brown on 19 Nov 09
     
    Note the criteria as it pertains to NWCC&U
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

Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) - 0 views

www.snaap.indiana.edu

national survey arts

shared by Kimberly Green on 09 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Kimberly Green on 09 Aug 10
     
    WSU is participating in this survey. Looks interesting, follow up on students who graduate with an arts degree. Could be useful in program assessment in a number of ways ( a model, sample questions, as well as ways to leverage nationally collected data.) Kimberly Welcome to the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), an annual online survey, data management, and institutional improvement system designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education. SNAAP partners with arts high schools, art and design colleges, conservatories and arts programs within colleges and universities to administer the survey to their graduates. SNAAP is a project of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research in collaboration with the Vanderbilt University Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy. Lead funding is provided by the Surdna Foundation, with major partnership support from the Houston Endowment, Barr Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, Educational Foundation of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. improvement system designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education. SNAAP partners with arts high schools, art and design colleges, conservatories and arts programs within colleges and universities to administer the survey to their graduates. SNAAP is a project of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research in collaboration with the Vanderbilt University Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy. Lead funding is provided by the Surdna Foundation, with major partnership support from the Houston Endowment, Barr Foundation, Cleveland Foundation, Educational Foundation of America and the National Endowment for the Arts."
Joshua Yeidel

Key Steps in Outcome Management - 0 views

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assessment

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 22 Sep 10
     
    First in a series from the Urban Institute on outcome management for non-profits, for an audience of non-evaluation-savvy leadership and staff. Lots to steal here if we ever create an Assessment Handbook for WSU.
Joshua Yeidel

Strategic Directives for Learning Management System Planning | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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coursemanagement lms

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 21 Sep 10
     
    A largely sensible strategic look at LMS in general. "The LMS, because of its integration with other major institutional technology systems, has itself become an enterprise-wide system. As such, higher education leaders must closely 7 monitor the possible tendency for LMSs to contribute only to maintaining the educational status quo.40 The most radical suggestion for future LMS use would dissolve the commercially enforced "course-based" model of LMS use entirely, allowing for the creation of either larger (departmental) or smaller (study groups) units of LMS access, as the case may require. This ability to cater to context awareness is perhaps the feature most lacking in most LMS products. As noted in a study in which mobile or handheld devices were used to assemble ad hoc study groups,41 this sort of implementation is entirely possible in ways that don't necessarily require interaction through an LMS interface." Requires EDUCAUSE login (free to WSU)
  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Sep 10
     
    The EDUCAUSE paper suggests "dissolv[ing] the commercially enforced 'course-based' model of LMS". How about dissolving the "course-based" model of higher education on which the commercial LMS is based?
Gary Brown

Recruiters Pick State Schools, Pass on Ivies - WSJ.com - 0 views

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employers

shared by Gary Brown on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Recruiters say graduates of top public universities are often among the most prepared and well-rounded academically, and companies have found they fit well into their corporate cultures and over time have the best track record in their firms.
  • Recruiter salaries, travel expenses, advertising and relocation costs run upwards of $500,000 to recruit 100 college grads, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
  • The Journal asked companies to rank schools that produce the best-qualified graduates—overall and by major. Recru
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  • Partnerships also play a key role. Universities and companies strike research collaborations that often include student participation. Companies get an early look at promising students, leading to internships and job offers.
  • Partnerships can help boost brand awareness among talented students. The economic climate led Dennis Cornell, head of recruiting for LSI Corp. of Milpitas, Calif., to narrow his on-campus recruiting to three schools where the tech firm wanted to expand its reputation:
  • Gary Brown on 13 Sep 10
     
    Note that WSU is rated in a tie as number 25 (Wall Sreet)
Nils Peterson

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views

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wesch web2.0 learning

shared by Nils Peterson on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
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  • Many faculty may hope to subvert the system, but a variety of social structures work against them. Radical experiments in teaching carry no guarantees and even fewer rewards in most tenure and promotion systems, even if they are successful. In many cases faculty are required to assess their students in a standardized way to fulfill requirements for the curriculum. Nothing is easier to assess than information recall on multiple-choice exams, and the concise and “objective” numbers satisfy committee members busy with their own teaching and research.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 11 Mar 09
       
      Do we think this is true? Many?
  • In a world of nearly infinite information, we must first address why, facilitate how, and let the what generate naturally from there.
  • Theron DesRosier on 09 Mar 09
     
    "Most university classrooms have gone through a massive transformation in the past ten years. I'm not talking about the numerous initiatives for multiple plasma screens, moveable chairs, round tables, or digital whiteboards. The change is visually more subtle, yet potentially much more transformative."
  • Nils Peterson on 11 Mar 09
     
    Connect this to the 10 point self assessment we did for AACU comparing institutional vs community-based learning https://teamsite.oue.wsu.edu/ctlt/home/Anonymous%20Access%20Documents/AACU%202009/inst%20vs%20comm%20based%20spectrum.pdf
Nils Peterson

WSU Today Online - Real-life global experience … in the classroom - 3 views

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

shared by Nils Peterson on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • “We’ve saved Boeing, for example, hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he said. “Sending a project to us runs about $8,000 to $10,000, the work gets done, and the students get an educational experience on top of that.”
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 03 Mar 10
       
      but they do not report asking boeing for assessments or feedback on rubrics
  • And the company mentors add tremendous value. In a class of 50, with 10 mentors, I’ve effectively reduced the student-instructor ratio to 5:1.”
Nils Peterson

WSU Today Online - Professor brings new approach into classroom - 3 views

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

shared by Nils Peterson on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • What do Wikipedia, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and Threadless Tees have in common? All were created outside the traditional product development model using a mass collaborative approach. In mass collaborative product development (MCPD), large groups of people compete and collaborate globally to develop new products and services.
  • the MCPD phenomenon is under way in the management and business communities. But few have examined it from an engineering design standpoint.
  • A more natural process
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  • But engineering curricula, said Panchal, tends to remain focused on traditional approaches to product development.
  • companies are trying out MCPD to not only foster a more collaborative workplace but to bring in outside innovation
  • “This is not a hierarchical model," said Panchal. "Rather, people self-select activities they’re interested in."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 Mar 10
       
      see various harvesting gradebook ideas from 2008, student finds problem in community, that becomes a motivating spine for their personal curriculum
  • Gary Brown on 09 Mar 10
     
    collaborative development on our doorstep. We should introduce ourselves.
Gary Brown

Office of the President: Elson S. Floyd's Blog - 2 views

president.wsu.edu/blog

community

shared by Gary Brown on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • SU research directly supports the economies of so many of our communities statewide – communities and economies many of our graduates will soon take part in when they enter the workforce.  Therefore, it is imperative we align WSU to work closely and strategically with the state, and more specifically, very intimately with the counties, communities and businesses to maximize the efficiency and value of our extension, educational, outreach and research programs
  • Gary Brown on 29 Mar 10
     
    The president speaks about community engagement and aligning our goals.....
Gary Brown

Designing Effective Assessments: Q&A with Trudy Banta - 0 views

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institutional assessment program assessment assessment models

shared by Gary Brown on 16 Sep 09 - Cached
  • One-hundred forty-six assessment examples were sent to us, and we used all of those in one way or another in the book. I think it’s a pretty fair sample of what’s going on in higher education assessment. Yet most of the programs that we looked at had only been underway for two, three, or four years. When we asked what the long-term impact of doing assessment and using the findings to improve programs had been, in only six percent of the cases were the authors able to say that student learning had been improved.
  • Gary Brown on 16 Sep 09
     
    Though and advertisement for a workshop, Trudy Banta confirms our own suspicions. The blurb here further confirms that we need not look far for models--our energy will be better spent making our work at WSU a model.
Joshua Yeidel

Cutting Class - Richard D. Kahlenberg - 0 views

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higher_education

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 10 Sep 09
     
    A review of "Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Scghools in Raleigh", by sociologist Gerald Grant. Raleigh merged its school district with suburban Wake County and integrated its schools not just by race, but by socioeconomic status. Quoting the 1966 Coleman Report: "The norms of a good school are shaped more by the children who come through the door than the dollars spent on books, buildings, laboratories, teacher salaries, or other traditional measures of school quality." Is this why "selective" colleges are more successful? How are the "norms" of WSU shaped?
Nils Peterson

Marty Linsky and Alexander Grashow: Obama is Reset -- Are You? - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 01 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Will you hunker down until the storm blows over and then try to restore? Or will you adapt and Reset now, and start from a new beginning?
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 01 Apr 09
       
      Josh made this same observation about the choice facing WSU and higher ed. He said relative to the Newspapers and Universities piece he Diigoed that he worries WSU 'sails under' in this process. Gary calls it never letting a good crisis go wasted
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).
Nils Peterson

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

www.citejournal.org/...article3.cfm

shared by Nils Peterson on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The ability to aggregate data for assessment is counted as a plus for CS and a minus for GT
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 13 Aug 10
       
      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.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 13 Aug 10
       
      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.
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