In surveys, students have shown much greater satisfaction reading e-books on their computers than they did on the Sony Reader. Interactivity - the ability to annotate and take notes - were the main factors cited by students, rather than the size of the devices.

Maybe they can support a Theater and Dance program

17 states, including Nevada, Texas and Washington, have allowed community colleges to award associate's and bachelor's degrees, and in some, the community colleges have become four-year institutions. Others states are considering community college baccalaureates. Ms. Coleman [a B.A. student] now recommends the [community] college to family members. "It's much cheaper, the teachers are good, you can do it in the evening while you work, and everyone's very helpful," she said.

The discontents of conventional teaching behavior - and a map of the trap.

"What if my students are right? What if the readings are too long or too boring or don't make sense?"

Some alternatives focus on web content management (Nuxeo), others on collaborative application frameworks (MindTouch).

As Alfresco Software Inc. continues to emerge as the leading provider of open source software enterprise collaboration software, rival open source vendors are stepping up their efforts.

Joel Spolsky, guru of real-world software development, on social software -- in 2004 (pre-Facebook)! It turns out that non-features can be crucial...

"My goal today is to talk about the next level of software design issues, after you've got the UI right: designing the social interface..."

Nils thinks he knows "why" Twitter -- this page focuses on "how" to build and keep a following.

How would we integrate information about this effort as a resource in alt.wetpaint?

"The basic idea is to bring all four of these classes together in this one space," Mr. Gold said in an interview. Each class will have its own turf on the Web site, and each will concentrate on a different era of the poet's life. Students at NYU and City Tech will focus on Whitman in mid-19th-century New York, those at Mary Washington will examine his Civil War-era experience, and the Rutgers contingent will turn its attention to his sage-of-Camden period. Each group will work with and annotate the relevant edition or editions of Leaves of Grass. Each will have access to the others' work. So will the general public - at least that's the plan. "We really don't know what these interactions will be like," Mr. Gold said. "It's one of the risks of the project but also one of the exciting things about it."

Higher education faces many challenges in the short run. Our solutions will not stick if we do not re-examine the potential value of "Rolodex" presidents, slash-and-burn financial officers, and too many corporate leaders who could not mind their own stores.

Another way of looking at the financial crisis as an opportunity for "creative destruction".

For the first time in its six year history, the international Open Education Conference is moving! After five years at the historic Utah State University campus, this year's conference will be held in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, hosted by the University of British Columbia. The Call for Papers is now available!

You may have heard me say that I fear that WSU might 'sail itself under the water' by not adapting to its changing environment. Here's a short but carefully-reasoned examination of parallels between universities and newspapers, which are doing just that.

Newspapers are dying. Are universities next? The parallels between them are closer than they appear.

How do we move from innovative but often isolated classroom practice to more far-reaching changes in institutions and the field as a whole?

What emerged from this work was a picture of learning that drew our attention to a series of intermediate thinking processes that characterize flexible thinking, processes that digital media are especially good at making visible. This includes such things as how students work through difficulty, consider alternative pathways to solve problems, speculate about ideas, and argue with one another about meaning. These kinds of thinking processes turn out to be much more than just cognitive. Motivation, confidence, fear, one's sense of identity, experience, as well as formal knowledge all come to bear on them.

Changing the status of the problem in teaching from terminal remediation to ongoing investigation is precisely what the movement for a scholarship of teaching is all about.

Predictive Markets at HP: "we is smarter than all of us". Leslie R/ Fine: "The BRAIN Process is an information aggregation tool that harnesses all of the power and truth-telling properties of market mechanisms and implements it with all of the simplicity and robustness of a simple survey.

...due the fact that the single most frequently asked question I get about Enterprise 2.0 is if SharePoint is a suitable platform for it (short answer: it definitely depends), I've spent the last few weeks taking a hard look at SharePoint the product itself, talked extensively with SharePoint and Enterprise 2.0 practitioners both, and created the resulting analysis.

But the essential, core meaning [of Enterprise 2.0] has largely stayed the same: Social applications that are optional to use, free of unnecessary structure, highly egalitarian, and support many forms of data.

what separates College 2.0 from the anonymity of Web 2.0 is not just that you have to put your name behind your words, but that college gives us the chance to practice what our blogs preach...a shift from education as primarily information intake (watching a Hollywood movie), to education as action (posting our own movie on YouTube)...This is education by doing, or education based on the idea that we can get things done. Now....college plays an integral role as an enabler of what we want to do...college has given me the confidence to speak up when someone has the wrong idea - like the theory that college is dying. It's not dying, it's rebooting.

What would John Dewey make of this?

This is a god place to have discussions among Diigo members who are interested in our topics. If we want to center on Diigo as a locale for forming a community around us, we should be getting invitations out (e.g., in our blogs and on our websites, maybe even in email sig's). Perhaps Diigo could help also, seeing that this would amount to a membership drive for them. Then adding some enticing topics here might generate some interest which might lead to others adding topics...

I think it's worth discussing alternatives before we go to those lengths in this environment.

-- Joshua

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