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Best Colleges: The Real Rankings - CBS MoneyWatch.com - 2 views

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  • Ultimately, though, the usefulness of any college ranking will depend on what criteria matters most to you and your teen. The best strategy: Use a few of the rankings to amass quantifiable and
  • Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09
     
    key advice for prospective college students--and a way to think about providing models that engage authentic learning opportunities as critical benchmark.
  • Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09
     
    key advice for prospective college students--and a way to think about providing models that engage authentic learning opportunities as critical benchmark.
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Google Docs - Viewer - 1 views

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 25 Sep 09
     
    Like Chrome Frame, another attempt by Google to bypass browser limitations. "Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF files are supported" Enter a URL anywhere on the web and get a link for an embedded view of the doc
  • Joshua Yeidel on 25 Sep 09
     
    Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. Enter a document URL below to generate a link to view it PDF documents, PowerPoint presentations, and TIFF files are supported
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Google Fixes IE6 with Chrome Frame - 0 views

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 24 Sep 09
     
    Chrome Frame is a new open-source product from Google that promises to answer web developer dreams. It's a free plug-in for IE6, IE7 and IE8 that turns Internet Explorer into Google's Chrome browser!
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War News Radio | Academic Commons - 0 views

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  • War News Radio (WNR) is an award winning, student-run radio show produced by Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It is carried by over thirty-seven radio stations across the United States, Canada and Italy, and podcasts are available through our Web site. It attempts to fill the gaps in the media's coverage of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan by providing balanced and in-depth reporting, historical perspective, and personal stories.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Intersting piece about students working on an authentic problem within the College, but outside its credit awarding structure
  • Robert Fisk, one of the best journalists covering conflicts in the Middle East, described this as a kind of "hotel journalism." "More and more Western reporters in Baghdad" he writes in a survey of media coverage in Iraq, "are reporting from their hotels rather than the streets of Iraq's towns and cities."1 If the journalist in Iraq could prepare his or her reports by relying on phone interviews, Swarthmore students could do that as well.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Theron brought this work to my attention a couple years ago. They end up using Skype as one of their tools
  • Initially college administrators and faculty explored the idea of incorporating War News Radio into the college curriculum, where students involved in the program could receive credit for their broadcast work. Students took courses through the film and media studies department and completed required readings on the Middle East. However, it was hard to do both things at the same time and the college stopped giving credit, which made the show more focused on reporting. And then it became clear that an experienced journalist was needed to guide the students.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      A couple threads connect here. One is Daniel Pink's Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose (intrinsic rewards) being more important in a creative endevor than extrinsic rewards (course grades). The other idea is a mentor from the Community of Practice rather than from inside the university
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  • students were becoming better reporters and the show became more professional as it moved to a weekly format. Stations throughout the U.S. began to take interest in what WNR was covering as the shows were uploaded to Public Radio Exchange (PRX), a Web-based platform for digital distribution, review, and licensing of radio programs. Students' reports were now being heard by thousands of people in the U.S. and abroad. With this publicity, students felt increasingly responsible for meeting weekly deadlines and producing a high quality program. Currently staff members contribute more than twenty hours of work into every show
  • In addition to placing Swarthmore on the map, it has boosted the number of applicants. WNR is “one of two or three things that have influenced applicants to the college, so that people who want to come to Swarthmore and have to write the essay: "Why Swarthmore?" one of the most frequently cited things in the last few years has been War News Radio,”
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 4 | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • 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.
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 3 | Fast Company - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • If open courseware is about applying technology to sharing knowledge, and Peer2Peer is about social networking for teaching and learning, Bob Mendenhall, president of the online Western Governors University, is proudest of his college's innovation in the third, hardest-to-crack dimension of education: accreditation and assessment.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Spoke too soon
  • Theron DesRosier on 13 Aug 09
     
    "We said, 'Let's create a university that actually measures learning,' " Mendenhall says. "We do not have credit hours, we do not have grades. We simply have a series of assessments that measure competencies, and on that basis, award the degree." WGU began by convening a national advisory board of employers, including Google and Tenet Healthcare. "We asked them, 'What is it the graduates you're hiring can't do that you wish they could?' We've never had a silence after that question." Then assessments were created to measure each competency area. Mendenhall recalls one student who had been self-employed in IT for 15 years but never earned a degree; he passed all the required assessments in six months and took home his bachelor's without taking a course.
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How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Fast Company - 0 views

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  • "Colleges have become outrageously expensive, yet there remains a general refusal to acknowledge the implications of new technologies," says Jim Groom, an "instructional technologist" at Virginia's University of Mary Washington and a prominent voice in the blogosphere for blowing up college as we know it. Groom, a chain-smoker with an ever-present five days' growth of beard, coined the term "edupunk" to describe the growing movement toward high-tech do-it-yourself education. "Edupunk," he tells me in the opening notes of his first email, "is about the utter irresponsibility and lethargy of educational institutions and the means by which they are financially cannibalizing their own mission."
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Sep 09
       
      Several people to follow in this article. They are moving from open content up the ladder. I don't see them pointing to open assessment as Downes did a couple years back, but that may make a place for us to play with them
  • Joshua Yeidel on 04 Sep 09
     
    A good overview of how higher ed's core functions are being remixed online. As you might expect from the source, the emphasis is on the positive.
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Official Google Docs Blog: Electronic Portfolios with Google Apps - 0 views

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  • Peggy Collins on 23 Sep 09
     
    looks like Google has officially adopted Helen Barrett's method of e-portfolios with Google apps. Posted on "Googlel Docs Blog"
  • Peggy Collins on 23 Sep 09
     
    looks like google has officially adopted Helen Barrett's method of e-portfolios with Google apps. Posted on "Google Docs Blog"
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East Bay Express : Print This Story - 0 views

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  • Matthew Tedder on 21 Sep 09
     
    It's not the African American aspect of this story that interests me. It is the aspect of attitudes--whether they be ethnically correlated or not. Politically problematic but I think this includes, at its core, crucial factors to consider. I think this research would have been better conducted not in consideration of ethnicity but rather groups as determined by criteria derived from factor analysis. To me, the point is that memes matter. Both behavioral and belief memes can characterize groups of friends (a better unit of study than a nebulous ethnicity) and provide them with a baseline of comparative likelinesses in achievements of various kinds.
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Course Portfolio Initiative - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 21 Sep 09
     
    Examples of course portfolios from Indiana University Bloomington. All of these link to the Pew Course Portfolio Peer Review of Teaching Project http://www.courseportfolio.org/peer/pages/index.jsp
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www.courseportflio.org - an international repository for documenting student learning - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 21 Sep 09
     
    Home page: "The Peer Review of Teaching Project (PRTP) provides faculty with a structured and practical model that combines inquiry into the intellectual work of a course, careful investigation of student understanding and performance, and faculty reflection on teaching effectiveness. Begun in 1994, the PRTP has engaged hundreds of faculty members from numerous universities. In 2005, the project was awarded a TIAA-CREF Theodore M. Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence in recognition of it being an exceptional faculty development program designed to enhance undergraduate student achievement. "
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Next: An Internet Revolution in Higher Education - BusinessWeek - 1 views

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shared by Matthew Tedder on 20 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 20 Sep 09
     
    New disruptive model(s) for higher education?
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The End in Mind » Assessment as a Social Activity - 0 views

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  • Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09
     
    jon mott blog post on harvesting gradebook with our video
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Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment - 0 views

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  • Peggy Collins on 18 Sep 09
     
    feldstein summarizes the findings from North Carolina.
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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 0 views

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  • Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      A new take on technology is hurting student's ability to write
  • "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
  • Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across. The modern world of online writing, particularly in chat and on discussion threads, is conversational and public, which makes it closer to the Greek tradition of argument than the asynchronous letter and essay writing of 50 years ago. The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good writing. In interviews, they defined good prose as something that had an effect on the world.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      What if Cathy Davidson's rubric were changed from Not/Satisfactory to Would/would not have impact on the audience, or Useful to me/not useful
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  • We think of writing as either good or bad. What today's young people know is that knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all.
  • Matthew Tedder on 28 Aug 09
     
    The digital age appears to be reviving literacy... Good.
  • Matthew Tedder on 28 Aug 09
     
    The digital age is reviving literacy..
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YouTube - Michael Wesch - PdF2009 - The Machine is (Changing) Us - 1 views

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  • Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
     
    Michael Wesch updates Machine is Us/ing us. 30 min video His point, our tools are changing us. Worth thinking about by us greybeards are his statistics about the number of hours of video uploaded to You Tube per day. For someone who remembers what a byte is, this is a paradigm shifting amount of data being moved and stored for free.
  • Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
     
    Michael Wesch updates Machine is Us/ing us. His point, our tools are changing us. Worth thinking about by us greybeards are his statistics about the number of hours of video uploaded to You Tube per day. For someone who remembers what a byte is, this is a paradigm shifting amount of data being moved and stored for free.
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Mod7: One-to-one Technologies - ETEC522 - Ventures in Learning Technology - September 2009 - 0 views

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  • 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.
    • Nils Peterson
      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
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Don't Shrug Off Student Evaluations - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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  • On their most basic level, student evaluations are important because they open the doors of our classrooms. It is one of the remarkable ironies of academe that while we teachers seek to open the minds of our students—to shine a light on hypocrisy, illusion, corruption, and distortion; to tell the truth of our disciplines as we see it—some of us want that classroom door to be closed to the outside world. It is as if we were living in some sort of academic version of the Da Vinci code: Only insiders can know the secret handshake.
  • Gary Brown on 18 Sep 09
     
    A Chronicle version that effectively surveys the issues. Maybe nothing new, but a few nuggets.
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UMW Blogs » Ten ways to use UMW Blogs - 1 views

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  • Ten ways to use UMW Blogs
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Sep 09
       
      Mary Washington University shows were WSU could have gone with PBJ if the timing and tools had been right. The page has a rich set of examples, including some that point to open participatory learning ecosystems. Here is the attraction of a single shared tool, which is easier to realize with a central offering rather than letting each person find tools in the cloud. Hook this to a centrally supported harvesting tool and the effect might be even greater
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New York Launches Public School Curriculum Based on Playing Games | Popular Science - 0 views

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  • Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09
     
    hmm...
  • Matthew Tedder on 17 Sep 09
     
    This just reminds me that finding a way to make addictive games also educational is a holy grail of software design.
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