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iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 10 May 10
     
    Preliminary usability studies of the iPad show some UI problems in the first generation of apps. Overadoption of the iPhone UI raises one set of issues; avoidance of some standard Web concepts raises others. Many content providers are hoping that their iPad apps will capture users more than Web sites do; that will remain to be seen.
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From Social Media to Social Strategy - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • Choreography. Most organizations seek "high performance." Today, performance is no longer enough: excelling in yesterday's terms is excelling at the wrong things. This is downright self-destructive (just ask Wall Street). Today's radical innovators aren't merely mute performers, precisely executing the empty steps of a meaningless dance: they're more like choreographers. Choreographers define the steps of a better dance — they lay down better rules for interactions between supply and demand to take place.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 10 May 10
       
      It strilkes me that this connects to OAI's Aof A work. We recognize learning outcomes can't forever improve, but through better assessment, we can hope the programs are ever more attentive and responsive to changing situations.
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College 2.0 - Essay Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 19 Mar 09
     
    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.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 19 Mar 09
     
    What would John Dewey make of this?
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pagi: eLearning - 0 views

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  • 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.
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Above-Campus Services: Shaping the Promise of Cloud Computing for Higher Education (EDU... - 0 views

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  • In the early 1990s, Mike Zucchini, formerly the CIO of Fleet/Norstar, saw four possible reasons for outsourcing information technology. He explained these reasons in his "4-S" model: Scale — the desire to access economies of scale and efficiency that an institution could not achieve alone; Specialty — the desire to access specialized expertise that is too expensive to staff; Sale — the desire to turn nonproductive assets of capital facilities and IT equipment into cash to improve a balance sheet and reduce headcount; and Surrender — the desire to simplify the IT agenda by essentially giving up and hoping that a contract for service yields the outcomes an executive desires.7 Zucchini argued that Scale and Specialty are functional reasons for outsourcing and that Sale and Surrender are ultimately dysfunctional. History supports his insights: the big Sale/Surrender outsourcing deals of Kodak, American Express, GM, and Xerox all proved transient as the complexities of managing by contract and service-level agreements led to the eventual re-creation of internal IT service capabilities
  • Joshua Yeidel on 15 Jun 10
     
    Describes a "meta-versity" concept based on cloud computing shared by HE institutions. Although the article focuses on the institution level, many of the considerations also occur in department-level movement toward the cloud.
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Tech's 29 Most Powerful Colleges - Page 1 - The Daily Beast - 0 views

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  • which schools really represent a pipeline to the top jobs? To find out, The Daily Beast scoured the biographies of hundreds of key technology executives from the nation’s biggest companies and some of its hottest startups, too. Our goal was to identify which colleges, compared student-for-student (undergraduate enrollment data courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics), have turned out the most undergraduates destined for high-tech greatness.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 10
       
      Post-hoc analysis. Who holds the job, where did they graduate?
  • some schools excel at inculcating a crucial skill for techland: dealing with uncertainty and making the right decision without taking too long to size up a situation quickly.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 05 May 10
       
      Rubric dimensions.
  • I want someone who’s quick and decisive and a good leader, like a graduate of' and then they'll name certain schools.” Champion says part of that stems from the competitive environment of the top schools, which vet their admittees so heavily. "Is the competition the only the reason they’re successful? No,” Champion says. “But is it the beginning of training in a process that helps them be successful? Yes.”
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Want Students to Take an Optional Test? Wave 25 Bucks at Them - Students - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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  • cash, appears to be the single best approach for colleges trying to recruit students to volunteer for institutional assessments and other low-stakes tests with no bearing on their grades.
  • American Educational Research Association
  • A college's choice of which incentive to offer does not appear to have a significant effect on how students end up performing, but it can have a big impact on colleges' ability to round up enough students for the assessments, the study found.
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  • "I cannot provide you with the magic bullet that will help you recruit your students and make sure they are performing to the maximum of their ability," Mr. Steedle acknowledged to his audience at the Denver Convention Center. But, he said, his study results make clear that some recruitment strategies are more effective than others, and also offer some notes of caution for those examining students' scores.
  • The study focused on the council's Collegiate Learning Assessment, or CLA, an open-ended test of critical thinking and writing skills which is annually administered by several hundred colleges. Most of the colleges that use the test try to recruit 100 freshmen and 100 seniors to take it, but doing so can be daunting, especially for colleges that administer it in the spring, right when the seniors are focused on wrapping up their work and graduating.
  • The incentives that spurred students the least were the opportunity to help their college as an institution assess student learning, the opportunity to compare themselves to other students, a promise they would be recognized in some college publication, and the opportunity to put participation in the test on their resume.
  • The incentives which students preferred appeared to have no significant bearing on their performance. Those who appeared most inspired by a chance to earn 25 dollars did not perform better on the CLA than those whose responses suggested they would leap at the chance to help out a professor.
  • What accounted for differences in test scores? Students' academic ability going into the test, as measured by characteristics such as their SAT scores, accounted for 34 percent of the variation in CLA scores among individual students. But motivation, independent of ability, accounted for 5 percent of the variation in test scores—a finding that, the paper says, suggests it is "sensible" for colleges to be concerned that students with low motivation are not posting scores that can allow valid comparisons with other students or valid assessments of their individual strengths and weaknesses.
  • A major limitation of the study was that Mr. Steedle had no way of knowing how the students who took the test were recruited. "If many of them were recruited using cash and prizes, it would not be surprising if these students reported cash and prizes as the most preferable incentives," his paper concedes.
  • Gary Brown on 04 May 10
     
    Since it is not clear if the incentive to participate in this study influenced the decision to participate, it remains similarly unclear if incentives to participate correlate with performance.
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Better Monitoring of Teacher-Training Programs Is Recommended - Government - The Chroni... - 0 views

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    • Gary Brown
      Gary Brown on 30 Apr 10
       
      Weird since most Education programs focus on...research mehtods...
  • "There's a lot of talk out there about alternative routes into teaching being very different from traditional routes, and we found that that distinction just is not meaningful," Ms. Lagemann said. Colleges of education vary widely in their methods, and many alternative-certification programs require participants to take classes at colleges and universities, she pointed out. In some cases, students pursuing a traditional education degree and students in an alternative-certification program are in the same class.
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Does having a computer at home improve results at school? | A World Bank Blog on ICT us... - 0 views

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  • Does differential access to computer technology at home compound the educational disparities between and rich and poor? and Would a program of government provision of computers to early secondary school students reduce these disparities? In this case, Vigdor and Ladd found that the introduction of home computer technology is associated with modest but statistically significant and persistent negative impacts on student math and reading test scores. Further evidence suggests that providing universal access to home computers and high-speed internet access would broaden, rather than narrow, math and reading achievement gaps.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 21 Jul 10
       
      so there is some contextualization of computers in the home that is also needed... as I find when my daughter wants to spend computer time dressing up Barbie.
  • A 2010 report from the OECD (Are New Millennium Learners Making the Grade? [pdf]) considers a number of studies, combined with new analysis it has done based on internationally comparable student achievement data (PISA), and finds that indeed that gains in educational performance are correlated with the frequency of computer use at home.
  • One way to try to make sense of all of these studies together is to consider that ICTs may function as a sort of 'amplifier' of existing learning environments in homes.  Where such environments are conducive to student learning (as a result, for example, of strong parental direction and support), ICT use can help; where home learning environments are not already strong (especially, for example, where children are left unsupervised to their own devices -- pun intended), we should not be surprised if the introduction of ICTs has a negative effect on learning.
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  • On a broader note, and in response to his reading of the Vigdor/Ladd paper, Warschauer states on his insightful blog that the "aim of our educational efforts should not be mere access, but rather development of a social environment where access to technology is coupled with the most effective curriculum, pedagogy, instruction, and assessment."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 21 Jul 10
       
      specific things need to be done to 'mobilize' the learning latent in the computing environment.
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How to Prepare Students for Careers - 0 views

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  • Educators and industry partners can help students learn these skills through the following three practices:   1. Involve the community
  • Combine academic and technical knowledge That means educators must play on the same team.
  • . Make learning relevant Students need to see the tie between concepts they're learning and their application in life, said Allyson Knox, an academic program manager for Microsoft Corp.'s U.S. Partners in Learning program.
  • Gary Brown on 20 Apr 10
     
    walkiing the fine line
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Web Site Lets Students Bet on What Grades They'll Earn - Wired Campus - The Chronicle o... - 0 views

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  • Students can make a small bet on how well they'll do in a course, with a starting limit of $25 on how much they can earn. The students contribute a chunk of the money, and Ultrinsic puts up the rest. If they make the grade, they win it all.
  • In 2009, they piloted the idea with a different model that put students in the same course in direct competition with each other. Last year, about 600 students from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, the first two campuses where the company's most recent iteration became available, made wagers on Ultrinsic.
  • Gary Brown on 11 Aug 10
     
    Betting on the perception that school is a game.....
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Murder Madness and Mayhem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 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
      Nils Peterson on 11 Aug 10
       
      This is an interesting project, more ambitious than Theron/RIch King/CES effort to contribute to wikipedia.
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Views: Accreditation's Accidental Transformation - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Why the national attention? Why the second-guessing of the accreditation decisions? It is part of the accidental transformation of accreditation.
  • Academic quality assurance and collegiality -- the defining features of traditional accreditation -- are, at least for now, taking a backseat to consumer protection and compliance with law and regulation. Government and the public expect accreditation to essentially provide a guarantee that students are getting what they pay for in terms of the education they seek.
  • Blame the powerful demand that, above all, colleges and universities provide credentials that lead directly to employment or advancement of employment. Driven by public concerns about the difficult job market and the persistent rise in the price of tuition, accrediting organizations are now expected to assure that the colleges, universities and programs they accredit will produce these pragmatic results.
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  • The worth of higher education is determined less and less through the professional judgments made by the academic community. The deference at one time accorded accrediting organizations to decide the worth of colleges and universities is diminished and perhaps disappearing.
  • Do we know the consequences of this accidental transformation? Are we prepared to accept them? These changes may be unintended, but they are dramatic and far-reaching. Is this how we want to proceed? Judith S. Eaton is president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
  • Gary Brown on 11 Aug 10
     
    It is this discussion that programs that approach accreditation perfunctorily need to attend.
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CITE Journal -- Volume 2, Issue 4 - 0 views

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  • 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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How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To) - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 13 Aug 10
     
    a nice startup guide for the serious tweeter
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How Smartphones and Handheld Computers Are Bringing on an Educational Revolution | Fast... - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 29 Mar 10
     
    "As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide, we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How technology could unleash childhood creativity -- and transform the role of the teacher. "
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Brainless slime mould makes decisions like humans | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discov... - 0 views

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  • These results strongly suggest that, like humans, Physarum doesn’t attach any intrinsic value to the options that are available to it. Instead, it compares its alternatives. Add something new into the mix, and its decisions change.
  • But how does Physarum make decisions at all without a brain?  The answer is deceptively simple – it does so by committee. Every plasmodium is basically a big sac of fluid, where each part rhythmically contracts and expands, pushing the fluid inside back-and-forth. The rate of the contractions depends on what neighbouring parts of the sac are doing, and by the local environment. They happen faster when the plasmodium touches something attractive like food, and they slow down when repellent things like sunlight are nearby.
  • It’s the ultimate in collective decision-making and it allows Physarum to perform remarkable feats of “intelligence”, including simulating Tokyo’s transport network, solving mazes, and even driving robots.
  • Gary Brown on 13 Aug 10
     
    This probably also apples to change theory....
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The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Collaborating for Success ~ Stephen's Web - 0 views

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  • ccording to the study, teachers value collaboration, but do most of it outside the classroom. They believe they set high standards for students and believe core skills (mathematics and language, for example) are important. They believe all staff, rather than individual teachers, are accountable for student progress. They believe it would help a lot if students took responsibility for their own learning, but less than a third (compared to a very high percentage of students) believe students actually do.
  • Gary Brown on 13 Aug 10
     
    A majority of teachers and principals also believe that the following school- and classroom-centered factors would have a major impact on improving student achievement: Connecting classroom instruction to the real world; A school culture where students feel responsible and accountable for their own education; Addressing the individual needs of diverse learners; and Greater collaboration among teachers and school leaders.
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Led by North Dakota, Some States Shield Higher Education From Cutbacks - Government - T... - 0 views

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Mar 10
     
    "a handful of states have been spared the brunt of the recession so far, providing an opportunity for them to improve their national standing in terms of higher education. Leading those states by far is North Dakota, whose higher-education system has seen an 18.5-percent increase in state funds over the past two years. "
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