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Ashley Ater Kranov

Course Reminds Budding Ph.D.'s of the Damage They Can Do - Teaching - The Chronicle of ... - 1 views

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teaching learning assessment

shared by Ashley Ater Kranov on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Ashley Ater Kranov on 30 Oct 09
     
    I think most of us are aware of and agree with what this author is positing - the purpose in sharing this is related to our work with departments in re-thinking how they think about teaching and evaluate it. ""People often think that education works either to improve you or to leave you as you were," Mr. Cahn says. "But that's not right. An unsuccessful education can ruin you. It can kill your interest in a topic. It can make you a less-good thinker. It can leave you less open to rational argument. So we do good and bad as teachers-it's not just good or nothing.""
Judy Rumph

about | outcomes_assessment | planning | NYIT - 1 views

www.nyit.edu/...about

shared by Judy Rumph on 17 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The Assessment Committee of NYIT's Academic Senate is the institutional unit that brings together all program assessment activities at the university - for programs with and without professional accreditation, for programs at all locations, for programs given through all delivery mechanisms. The committee members come from all academic schools and numerous support departments. Its meetings are open and minutes are posted on the web site of the Academic Senate.
  • Judy Rumph on 17 Aug 10
     
    This page made me think about the public face of our own assessment process and how that can influence perceptions about our process.
Gary Brown

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...07mind.html

shared by Gary Brown on 08 Sep 10 - No Cached
    • Gary Brown
      Gary Brown on 08 Sep 10
       
      like practice
Peggy Collins

Blackboard Press Releases - 1 views

www.blackboard.com/...Press-Releases.aspx

shared by Peggy Collins on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Peggy Collins on 04 Nov 09
     
    "Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announced the launch of a native application for BlackBerry(R) mobile devices, debuting at the University of Washington this week, as part of the new Blackboard Mobile(TM) platform which is being leveraged by a growing number of campuses and K-12 schools to deliver a rich set of campus life services and content to mobile devices. The BlackBerry application enables many more users to enjoy an enhanced experience while navigating course catalogs and campus maps, e-mailing professors and classmates and receiving real time updates on course schedules, campus events, news and sports with Mobile Central (formerly MobilEdu(TM)), Blackboard Mobile's flagship suite of applications. Originally optimized for users of Apple(R) iPhone(R) and iPod Touch(R) devices, the best Mobile Central experience is now available to users of BlackBerry devices. The suite is also generally accessible to users of any smart phone or mobile Web enabled device. "This new platform allows us to easily reach our students, faculty and staff around the clock and deliver information whenever and wherever they want it, which increasingly is on mobile devices like the BlackBerry and iPhone," said David Morton, Director of Mobile Communication Strategies at the University of Washington (UW). "As a modern, global university, UW committed to embracing mobile communications and is pleased to be the launch institution for the BlackBerry initiative." "
Joshua Yeidel

5 Non-Western Teaching Strategies - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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teaching education

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 19 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 19 Aug 10
     
    Methods and attitudes from other cultures can enliven the classroom.
Lorena O'English

Effective Assessment in a Digital Age: A guide to technology-enhanced assessment and fe... - 1 views

www.jisc.ac.uk/...digiassass_eada.pdf

shared by Lorena O'English on 07 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Lorena O'English on 07 Sep 10
     
    from JISC (pdf)
Gary Brown

News: Scrutiny for an Accreditor - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...hlc

accreditation

shared by Gary Brown on 26 Dec 09 - Cached
  • The inspector general essentially accused the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools of shirking its federal gate keeping duties because it granted accreditation to a for-profit university despite a single flaw that the inspector general deemed to be serious.
  • The agency's action stunned many higher education leaders, who characterized it as a misstep of dramatic proportions. "We believe that the OIG's recommendation is an unwarranted overreaction," Sylvia Manning, president of the Higher Learning Commission, said in a news release. "To make a sweeping indictment of the HLC's capacity to judge quality based on a single case or even a small group of cases is wrongheaded and overreaching."
  • Added Belle S. Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and head of the Council of Regional Accreditation Commissions: "This is certainly of concern, because they appear to have put themselves in the place of the evaluators, and made a recommendation that's fairly radical based on one instance at one institution."
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  • the Obama administration, in the presence of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, has shown no signs of backing off. While last winter's negotiations over new rules governing accreditation ended in far more accord than did the 2007 discussion that blew up in conflict, the end result left some accreditation experts believing that the federal government was continuing to expand its reach and authority into accreditation matters.
  • Such action, if taken, could impair the ability of the many hundreds of colleges that the commission accredits to award federal financial aid.
  • Gary Brown on 26 Dec 09
     
    The Department of Education and Middle States at odds, and the new scrutiny is revealed.
Gary Brown

Student-Centered Learning: Target or Locus for Universities? -- Campus Technology - 1 views

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future technology student centered

shared by Gary Brown on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Student-centered learning has been largely a rhetorical distinction for decades--e.g., more group work or less group work--because, practically speaking, everything happened in the classroom.
  • Now, the distinction is not just rhetorical, but a life style distinction: scarcity learning (content delivery) in the classroom or abundance learning (discovery) often out in real-world situations. In scarcity learning, the student is the target for delivery systems, while in abundance learning the student is the locus, the starting point, of learning.
  • Gary Brown on 25 Aug 10
     
    missing here is the resistance we encounter--from faculty and students alike. Still a good read from our colleague at AAEEBL.
Joshua Yeidel

Running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster. - By Chris Wilson -... - 1 views

www.slate.com/2233719

software Drupal

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09
     
    "But I can't help but think the new software represents the triumph of hope over experience. Drupal looks great in theory: It's a powerful way to govern a Web site that is born out of the collective efforts of the community. In practice, it tends to be a bit of a mess."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09
     
    Noew that the White House has launched its new Drupal-based site, a Slate columnist weighs in on Drupal's negatives.
Joshua Yeidel

E. Jane Davidson on Evaluative Rubrics | AEA365 - 1 views

aea365.org/blog

higher_education assessment rubric

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 26 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 26 Aug 10
     
    Some context for rubrics like ours
Theron DesRosier

Engaging Departments: Assessing Student Learning, Peer Review single issue - 1 views

secure.aacu.org/...index.cfm

AAC&U assessment program_evaluation learning_outcomes

shared by Theron DesRosier on 26 Aug 10 - No Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 26 Aug 10
     
    "Description This issue explores how departments are developing assessment approaches that deepen student learning. Recognizing that most faculty identify strongly with their discipline and that students are engaged in more complex and sophisticated practice of liberal learning as they complete their majors, the issue presents articles that advance integrative and engaged learning in and across disciplines. The features draw on sessions and presentations from AAC&U's 2009 Engaging Departments Institute. " A pdf download is available on this page.
Matthew Tedder

Comic books are good for children's learning - Telegraph - 1 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...od-for-childrens-learning.html

education

shared by Matthew Tedder on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Matthew Tedder on 09 Nov 09
     
    Comics...
Gary Brown

The Ticker - Governors' Association Urges More Accountability in Academic Performance -... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...8779

accountability

shared by Gary Brown on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Governors' Association Urges More Accountability in Academic Performance
  • An issue brief, released today by the bipartisan group, which represents the nation's chief state executives, calls on states to go beyond federal reporting requirements for graduation rates, for instance, and include degree attainment by part-time students and those who transfer among community colleges.
  • Gary Brown on 09 Nov 09
     
    The call for accountability du jour. Note dissatisfaction with provostial measures while suggesting we need more...provostial measures.
Joshua Yeidel

How budget cuts short-changed the UW - 1 views

crosscut.com/...19457

higher_education uw washington state

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 08 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 08 Jan 10
     
    An article on budget cuts by Ed Lazowska, who holds the Gates Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at UW. Dr Lazowska states that "the principal role of great public universities is to provide socioeconomic upward mobility to the citizens of their states," and claims that the "capacity" of UW and other bachelor-granting institutions is insufficient and shrinking. Many questionable assumptions
Gary Brown

Under Obama, Accreditation Is Still in the Hot Seat - Government - The Chronicle of Hig... - 1 views

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accountability market

shared by Gary Brown on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • George Miller, a California Democrat who is chairman of the House education committee, said defining a credit hour is critical to ensure that students and taxpayers, through federal student aid, are not footing the bill for courses that are not worth the amount of credit being awarded.
    • Gary Brown
      Gary Brown on 13 Sep 10
       
      "Worth" opens up some interesting implications.  Intended I suspect, to dampen courses like basket-weaving, the production of outcomes cannot be far off, the production of economic impact related to those outcomes a step or less behind. 
  • Senators also questioned the independence of accreditors, which are supported by dues from member institutions and governed by representatives of the colleges they accredit.
  • Sen. Michael B. Enzi, the top Republican on the Senate Education Committee, has said he wants Congress to look beyond just problems in the for-profit sector. He said at a hearing last month that he would be "working to lay the groundwork for a broader, thorough, and more fair investigation into higher education" that would ask whether taxpayers are getting an appropriate value for the money they spend on all colleges.
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  • State and federal governments are better equipped to enforce consumer protections for students, say accreditors, who have traditionally focused on preserving academic quality.
  • Judith S. Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, which represents about 3,000 colleges, said that over the past several years accrediting organizations have responded to the growing calls for accountability and transparency from the public and lawmakers. The groups, she said, have worked to better identify and judge student achievement and share more information about what they do and how well the institutions are performing.
  • Peter T. Ewell, vice president of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, said the debate boils down to whether accreditors should serve primarily as consumer protectors or continue their traditional role of monitoring academic quality more broadly.
  • Richard K. Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability & Productivity and a member of the Spellings Commission
  • "We should be moving to more of a Consumer Reports for colleges, to provide the public with information that the college rankings do imperfectly," he said.
  • accreditation will have to evolve to meet not only government's expectations but also the changing college
  • market
  • Nearly two years into the Obama Administration, colleges have not gotten the relief they expected from the contentious battles over measuring quality that defined the Bush Education Department.
  • Bracing for the prospect of new rules and laws that could expand their responsibilities, accreditors and the institutions they monitor are defending the self-regulation colleges use to ensure academic quality. But they are also responding to the pressures from the White House and Capitol Hill by making some changes on their own, hoping to stanch the possibility of more far-reaching federal requirements.
  • Advocates of change say the six regional and seven national accreditors have varying standards that are sometimes too lax, allowing for limited oversight of how credits are awarded, how much learning is accomplished, and what happens to the mission of institutions that change owners.
Gary Brown

Building A New Framework for Collegiality - WorldWise - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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collegiality

shared by Gary Brown on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • I think part of the problem is not the shortage of time as such, but a feeling that the time available is not under the individual’s control. In other words, the essential independence of spirit that goes with being an academic is being undermined.
  • Academic life is meant to be collegial, that is based on 'shared power and authority vested among colleagues’ according to the dictionary, but the models of collegiality that have evolved are often solutions to the problems of another age, when universities were typically much smaller and less complex.
  • Perhaps there are other models of collegiality which might produce a better sense of say? Funnily enough, the most interesting models seem to come from business, often painted as academe’s alter ego.
  • Gary Brown on 16 Aug 10
     
    I note the recognition of one of our key challenges, and the search for solutions in other models and sectors....
Ashley Ater Kranov

Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - Teaching - The Chroni... - 1 views

chronicle.com/...49497

learning styles education teaching

shared by Ashley Ater Kranov on 30 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Ashley Ater Kranov on 30 Dec 09
     
    This is an interesting article about a new study that shows what the title says it does. What concerns me is that some instructors who predominately use an approach to teaching that promotes passive learning will use this as a rationale for not changing how they teach. There is plenty of brain-based research that shows that active learning for a purpose acheives greater attainment of student learning outcomes, no matter one's learning style. And while I've certainly not read tons on learning styles, that that I have read never asserted the need to match teaching to individual learning styles. The point, rather, seemed to be in greater self-awareness so that an individual could actively grow their weak areas. To some extent, the approach to the argument presented in this article is so American - so polarized - so not a useful approach.
Gary Brown

The Ticker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

chronicle.com/...9217

accreditation department of education

shared by Gary Brown on 15 Dec 09 - Cached
  • The U.S. Education Department today released a report critical of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, saying the regional accrediting organization did not set minimum standards for its member institutions on program length or credit hours.
  • The accreditor responded that "the fundamental concern of higher education's constituencies is whether students graduate with appropriate knowledge, skills, and competencies, not how many hours they spend in a classroom."
  • Gary Brown on 15 Dec 09
     
    A critical indicator of why I see our work as work with accreditors rather than for accreditors.
Nils Peterson

Home Page | The College Completion Agenda - 1 views

completionagenda.collegeboard.org

shared by Nils Peterson on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The percentage of American adults with postsecondary credentials is not keeping pace with other industrialized nations. Improving postsecondary success for all our citizens, but most urgently for low-income and minority students, is critical to our nation's economic and social health. To help policymakers and educators achieve the goal of 55% by 2025, The College Board Advocacy & Policy Center has developed the College Completion Agenda
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 16 Aug 10
       
      The 2010 progress report is linked here.
Jayme Jacobson

The Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (LIFE) Center » Blog Archive... - 1 views

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highlight visualization informal timeline eportfolio

shared by Jayme Jacobson on 11 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Jayme Jacobson on 11 Mar 09
     
    This looks like it might be something we would want to follow up on. would like to see this in action.
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