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Gary Brown

News: Room for Improvement - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...employers

employers critical thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • 302 private sector and non-profit employers who, by and large, say their employees need a broader set of skills and higher levels of knowledge than they ever have before. But, most surveyed said, colleges and universities have room for improvement in preparing students to be workers.
  • It is time for us to match our ambitious goals for college attainment with an equally ambitious – and well-informed – understanding of what it means to be well-prepared,” said Carol Geary Schneider, the association’s president. “Quality has to become the centerpiece of this nation’s postsecondary education.”
  • Nearly across the board, employers said they expect more of their employees than they did in the past
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  • Employers were largely pessimistic in their views of whether higher education is successful in preparing students for what was characterized as “today’s global economy.”
  • “All of us must focus more on what students are actually doing in college.”
  • Employers said colleges should place more emphasis on preparing students "to effectively communicate orally and in writing" (89 percent), to use "critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills" (81 percent) and to have "the ability to apply knowledge and skills to real-world settings through internships or other hands on-experiences" (79 percent). Fewer than half -- 45 percent and 40 percent, respectively -- though colleges should do more to emphasize proficiency in a foreign language and knowledge of democratic institutions and values.
  • Eighty-four percent said that completion of "a significant project before graduation" like a capstone course or senior thesis would help a lot or a fair amount to prepare students for success, with 62 percent saying it would help "a lot." Expecting that students complete an internship or community-based field project was something that 66 percent of employers surveyed said would help a lot.
  • Gary Brown on 21 Jan 10
     
    Updating what we've heard.
Theron DesRosier

The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness | The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation - 1 views

www.itif.org/...innovation-and-competitiveness

innovation education

shared by Theron DesRosier on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 30 Mar 10
     
    "ITIF uses 16 indicators to assess the global innovation-based competitiveness of 36 countries and 4 regions. This report finds that while the U.S. still leads the EU in innovation-based competitiveness, it ranks sixth overall. Moreover, the U.S. ranks last in progress toward the new knowledge-based innovation economy over the last decade."
Nils Peterson

Ads in Gmail - Gmail Help - 0 views

mail.google.com/...answer.py

shared by Nils Peterson on 07 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Until now, the ads you've seen next to a message were picked based on the content of that message only. For example, if you're looking at a confirmation email from a hotel in Chicago, you might see ads about flights, restaurants or other things relevant to your trip to Chicago. But sometimes, the ads related to a particular message aren't good enough. Rather than show less relevant ads, Gmail can now instantaneously serve ads based on another recent message on the same page of your inbox, helping make the ads more relevant to you. For example, if your friend sends you a message to say happy birthday, but there aren't any good ads to show related to birthdays, you might see ads related to another message in your inbox instead -- like flights to Chicago.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 07 Mar 10
       
      further to streams and melding in some new information to the stream -- perhaps changing its focus. this is from the gmail ads policy
Gary Brown

electronic portfolios and student learning outcomes assessment - 0 views

www.edpath.com/assessment.html

assessment

shared by Gary Brown on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
  • There has been an upsurge in reports and press coverage concerning accountability issues and student learning outcomes assessment (SLOA) in higher education. This paper is a brief overview of that upsurge, citing and synthesizing some of the most recent information published about accountability and SLOA.
  • Gary Brown on 16 Mar 10
     
    A resource
Gary Brown

Mini-Digest of Education Statistics, 2009 - 0 views

nces.ed.gov/...pubsinfo.asp

higher ed

shared by Gary Brown on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • This publication is a pocket-sized compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. The statistical highlights are excerpts from the Digest of Education of Statistics, 2009.
  • Gary Brown on 09 Apr 10
     
    just released for 2009, great resource
Sarah Usher

One Step Closer to My Dream - 3 views

My father was a police officer and he died protecting people and making this world a better place. All my life, I always wanted to follow in my father's footsteps and follow a path with police care...

police careers assessment education accountability higher_education

started by Sarah Usher on 01 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Sarah Usher

One Step Closer to My Dream - 3 views

My father was a police officer and he died protecting people and making this world a better place. All my life, I always wanted to follow in my father's footsteps and follow a path with police care...

police careers assessment education accountability

started by Sarah Usher on 01 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Sarah Usher

I am Now a Police Officer in Kent - 2 views

PoliceRecruitmentUK really helped me a lot in the police recruitment process. They gave me all the necessary information on how to pass the process and become a police officer. I never expected I ...

police jobs

started by Sarah Usher on 03 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Sarah Usher

I am Now a Police Officer in Kent - 2 views

PoliceRecruitmentUK really helped me a lot in the police recruitment process. They gave me all the necessary information on how to pass the process and become a police officer. I never expected I ...

police jobs

started by Sarah Usher on 03 Jun 11 no follow-up yet
Nils Peterson

How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 4 | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...who-needs-harvard.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • WGU constantly surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Here is our community providing feedback on the rubric and helping with the norming
  • So far, the open-education movement has been supported, to an astonishing extent, by a single donor: The Hewlett Foundation has made $68 million worth of grants to initiatives at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Rice, Stanford, and Tufts. Today, such foundation money is slowing, but new sources of financing are emerging. President Barack Obama has directed $100 billion in stimulus money to education at all levels, and he recently appointed a prominent advocate of open education to be undersecretary of education (Martha Kanter, who helped launch the 100-member Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources and the Community College Open Textbook Project)
  • Today, we've gone from scarcity of knowledge to unimaginable abundance. It's only natural that these new, rapidly evolving information technologies would convene new communities of scholars, both inside and outside existing institutions.
Theron DesRosier

Linux, Learning, and Sugar Kids | HASTAC - 0 views

www.hastac.org/...linux-learning-and-sugar-kids

shared by Theron DesRosier on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Like many of the conversations we have here at HASTAC, this project focuses on learning through collaboration, experimentation, and pleasure. For example, rather than applications or tools, each program is called an activity and runs at full-screen, two design choices that derive from this pedagogical orientation. Collaboration is also assumed by the OS; you can invite friends to just about any activity (like writing, painting, web browsing), and everyone who joins will see the same thing.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 Sep 09
       
      collaboration, experimentation and pleasure -- sound more like group play which is a theme running through some of the other HASTAC stuff I have been reading.
    • Theron DesRosier
      Theron DesRosier on 11 Sep 09
       
      Thanks Nils, I like the way the interface zooms to different levels of community participation. It assumes and supports collaborative work. Toward the end of the "short video of it in action" (link above), it shows how the system collects everything you do in your "Journal". The Journal identifies the collaborators you worked with on the project along with other information.
Gary Brown

Iran's Twitter Revolution - 0 views

www.thenation.com/...iran_s_twitter_revolution

twitter news information literacy

shared by Gary Brown on 16 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Gary Brown on 16 Jun 09
     
    Iran's Twitter Revolution posted by Ari Berman on 06/15/2009 @ 12:15pm Forget CNN or any of the major American "news" networks. If you want to get the latest on the opposition protests in Iran, you should be reading blogs, watching YouTube or following Twitter updates from Tehran,
Nils Peterson

Teleological and ateleological processes « The Weblog of (a) David Jones - 0 views

davidtjones.wordpress.com/...al-and-ateleological-processes

shared by Nils Peterson on 10 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The following is an early section on the Process component of the Ps Framework and is intended as part of chapter 2 of my thesis. Still fairly rough, but somewhat cleaner than some of the thesis sections I’ve shared here.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 11 Jun 09
       
      Interesting that he is working on his thesis in a public forum. This is parallel to the wiki space used by Lesi http://communitylearning.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/harvesting-gradebook-in-the-wild/ to work on his physcis ideas. Interesting implications for publishing the thesis post graduation -- i think this is a better model than the old school way
  • Joshua Yeidel on 10 Jun 09
     
    As I mentioned in this afternoon's Learning Environment Team meeting, this blog post introduces the notion of "ateleological" (emergent) processes, as opposed to purpose-driven, planned processes. Though the focus is on information technology, the ideas are broadly applicable.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 10 Jun 09
     
    Introna (1996) identified eight attributes of a design process and uses them to distinguish between the two extremes: teleological (planning school) and ateleological (learning school).
Nils Peterson

Edge: THE IMPENDING DEMISE OF THE UNIVERSITY By Don Tapscott - 1 views

www.edge.org/...tapscott09_index.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • For those of us like me who have been working on the Internet for years, it was very clear you couldn't encounter free software and you couldn't encounter Wikipedia and you couldn't encounter all of the wealth of cultural materials that people create and exchange, and the valuable actual software that people create, without an understanding that something much more complex is happening than the dominant ideology of the last 40 years or so. But you could if you weren't looking there, because we were used in the industrial system to think in these terms.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 28 Aug 09
       
      Hard to read because of the double negatives. He's saying there is lots of evidence of a new model in operation
  • It's a model that is teacher-focused, one-way, one-size-fits-all and the student is isolated in the learning process. Yet the students, who have grown up in an interactive digital world, learn differently. Schooled on Google and Wikipedia, they want to inquire, not rely on the professor for a detailed roadmap. They want an animated conversation, not a lecture. They want an interactive education, not a broadcast one
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 28 Aug 09
       
      and it has implications for assessment and vehicles for assessment (portfolios)
  • Theron DesRosier on 05 Jun 09
     
    "In the industrial model of student mass production, the teacher is the broadcaster. A broadcast is by definition the transmission of information from transmitter to receiver in a one-way, linear fashion. The teacher is the transmitter and student is a receptor in the learning process. The formula goes like this: "I'm a professor and I have knowledge. You're a student, you're an empty vessel and you don't. Get ready, here it comes. Your goal is to take this data into your short-term memory and through practice and repetition build deeper cognitive structures so you can recall it to me when I test you."... The definition of a lecture has become the process in which the notes of the teacher go to the notes of the student without going through the brains of either. "
S Spaeth

Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System | eMOLT - Overview - 0 views

www.gomoos.org/...overview.html

iTeams STEM

shared by S Spaeth on 10 Apr 09 - Cached
  • This information will help both lobstermen and scientists understand variations in water temperature and salinity. Both fishermen and scientists have noticed changes in the location of lobsters based on changes in bottom temperature. eMOLT data will help quantify these observations.
  • S Spaeth on 10 Apr 09
     
    Lobstermen collect data Lobstermen collect eMOLT data by attaching temperature and salinity probes to their lobster traps. The probes measure water temperature and salinity while the traps sit on the bottom. When the traps are brought in, the temperature and salinity data from the probes are downloaded to a computer. eMOLT data is available over the internet This website is a collaborative effort between GoMOOS and eMOLT to bring you environmental data collected by both of these programs. The Internet mapping tool found on this site allows you to see the location of GoMOOS and NOAA buoys and the approximate location of the eMOLT sites. We do not show the exact location of the eMOLT sites in order to keep these lobster trapping sites confidential. Using the map, you can select the data you are interested in and then create a graph to view the data.
Theron DesRosier

Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part Two) - 0 views

henryjenkins.org/...nt_wrong_with_web_20_cr_1.html

socialmedia Jenkins

shared by Theron DesRosier on 13 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Apr 09
     
    April 10: Henry Jenkins post contains a good reading list on media policy and participatory culture.
Joshua Yeidel

Wired Campus: Whitman Takes Manhattan - Chronicle.com - 0 views

chronicle.com/...index.php

lms_alternative wordpress web_2.0

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Apr 09
     
    How would we integrate information about this effort as a resource in alt.wetpaint?
  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Apr 09
     
    "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."
Nils Peterson

America's Newest Profession - WSJ.com - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...SB124026415808636575.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 21 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work ,and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 21 Apr 09
       
      What is the 21st century CITR that this group would help us invent?
  • It is hard to think of another job category that has grown so quickly and become such a force in society without having any tests, degrees, or regulation of virtually any kind. Courses on blogging are now cropping up, and we can't be far away from the Columbia School of Bloggerism.
Gary Brown

Official Reuven Carlyle Blog - 5 views

reuvencarlyle36.com

higher education change

shared by Gary Brown on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The institutional establishment has too much control over higher education. There is a profound disconnect, in my view, between those who benefit and need access to opportunity in higher education and those who run the show
  • Is a tenured professor or subject matter expert with credentials—as defined by some distant institutions or organization—really the very best person to teach? Perhaps but only if they have the soul of a teacher!
  • As a general rule the institutions of higher education hold firm, despite our rhetoric, to rigid models of teaching and learning. Radical, disruptive debate about systems change is great in theory, tough in reality when you have to live and die by the marketplace of ideas.
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  • Which means the day is coming—sooner than many people think—when a great deal of money is going to abruptly melt out of the higher education system, just as it has in scores of other industries that traffic in information that is now far cheaper and more easily accessible than it has ever been before. Much of that money will end up in the pockets of students in the form of lower prices, a boon and a necessity in a time when higher education is the key to prosperity. Colleges will specialize where they have comparative advantage, rather than trying to be all things to all people.”
  • Instructors with the spirit of education inside of them drive our learning
  • What would your life be like if you went from high school into a customized, personalized, targeted program of learning—from the fancy UW programs to a welding shop anywhere—that was right for you as an individual?
  • I don’t know the answers anymore than anyone else. But I feel we have hit a tipping point where the pain and cost to our society and our future of not asking these questions has become too high
  • Gary Brown on 15 Oct 09
     
    I blog to watch--and to comment upon
  • S Spaeth on 19 Oct 09
     
    Thanks for your summary. From Nils' posts, I knew about the blog but your excerpts and recommendation lead me to see it in a new light.
Gary Brown

It's the Learning, Stupid - Lumina Foundation: Helping People Achieve Their Potential - 3 views

www.luminafoundation.org/...2009-10-14.html

learning accountability

shared by Gary Brown on 15 Oct 09 - Cached
  • My thesis is this. We live in a world where much is changing, quickly. Economic crises, technology, ideological division, and a host of other factors have all had a profound influence on who we are and what we do in higher education. But when all is said and done, it is imperative that we not lose sight of what matters most. To paraphrase the oft-used maxim of the famous political consultant James Carville, it's the learning, stupid.
  • We believe that, to significantly increase higher education attainment rates, three intermediate outcomes must first occur: Higher education must use proven strategies to move students to completion. Quality data must be used to improve student performance and inform policy and decision-making at all levels. The outcomes of student learning must be defined, measured, and aligned with workforce needs. To achieve these outcomes (and thus improve success rates), Lumina has decided to pursue several specific strategies. I'll cite just a few of these many different strategies: We will advocate for the redesign, rebranding and improvement of developmental education. We will explore the development of alternative pathways to degrees and credentials. We will push for smoother systems of transferring credit so students can move more easily between institutions, including from community colleges to bachelor's degree programs.
  • "Lumina defines high-quality credentials as degrees and certificates that have well-defined and transparent learning outcomes which provide clear pathways to further education and employment."
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  • And—as Footnote One softly but incessantly reminds us—quality, at its core, must be a measure of what students actually learn and are able to do with the knowledge and skills they gain.
  • and yet we seem reluctant or unable to discuss higher education's true purpose: equipping students for success in life.
  • Research has already shown that higher education institutions vary significantly in the value they add to students in terms of what those students actually learn. Various tools and instruments tell us that some institutions add much more value than others, even when looking at students with similar backgrounds and abilities.
  • The idea with tuning is to take various programs within a specific discipline—chemistry, history, psychology, whatever—and agree on a set of learning outcomes that a degree in the field represents. The goal is not for the various programs to teach exactly the same thing in the same way or even for all of the programs to offer the same courses. Rather, programs can employ whatever techniques they prefer, so long as their students can demonstrate mastery of an agreed-upon body of knowledge and set of skills. To use the musical terminology, the various programs are not expected to play the same notes, but to be "tuned" to the same key.
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