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Lorena O'English

http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2010/03/using-jing-to-assess-online-student.html - 2 views

ow.ly/1eiSp

assessment screencasting

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  • Lorena O'English on 05 Mar 10
     
    This is an interesting idea - and not limited to Jing - there are a bunch of free and easy to use screencasting tools...
Gary Brown

A Conversation with Martin Scorsese: The Importance of Visual Literacy | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/conversation-martin-scorsese

visual thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 04 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The filmmaker touches on topics ranging from the importance of teaching visual literacy to violence in films to the preservation of classic movies
  • Gary Brown on 04 Mar 10
     
    for our collection. There are additional links to resources on this page.
Nils Peterson

WSU Today Online - Real-life global experience … in the classroom - 3 views

www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/...Publications.asp

shared by Nils Peterson on 03 Mar 10 - Cached
  • “We’ve saved Boeing, for example, hundreds of thousands of dollars,” he said. “Sending a project to us runs about $8,000 to $10,000, the work gets done, and the students get an educational experience on top of that.”
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 03 Mar 10
       
      but they do not report asking boeing for assessments or feedback on rubrics
  • And the company mentors add tremendous value. In a class of 50, with 10 mentors, I’ve effectively reduced the student-instructor ratio to 5:1.”
Gary Brown

WSU Today Online - Faculty, staff help requested on engagement survey - 2 views

www.wsutoday.wsu.edu/...Publications.asp

assessment

shared by Gary Brown on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Measuring student engagement is important for WSU
  • Gary Brown on 02 Mar 10
     
    fyi in case you missed
Gary Brown

2 Efforts to Provide Data on Colleges to Consumers Fall Short, Report Says - Administra... - 2 views

chronicle.com/...64433

accountability

shared by Gary Brown on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Higher education will have to be more accountable for its performance and more open to consumers about the actual cost of attending a college, and help people make easier comparisons among institutions, in order to succeed as the nation's economic engine, says a new report from two nonprofit think tanks here.
  • too little information to make informed choices about where they will get the most from their tuition dollars, say researchers at the two organizations, the libertarian-leaning American Enterprise Institute, and Education Sector, which is a proponent of reforming higher education
  • And without a more thorough and open form of accountability, institutions will not have any incentive to make the changes that will improve students' success,
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  • "If existing flaws are not resolved, the nation runs the risk of ending up in the worst of all worlds: the appearance of higher education accountability without the reality," the authors say.
  • The two voluntary systems criticized in the study are the University and College Accountability Network, begun in September 2007 by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities to provide information about private colleges, and the Voluntary System of Accountability,
  • it does not obligate institutions to gather or reveal any data that are not already available elsewhere,"
  • associations are beginning to offer workshops and other opportunities for system participants to learn how to use the data they're collecting to improve the college experience for students, she said
  • VSA has the testing lobby written all over it
  • We may all appreciate the cultural context inhibiting public accountability but it is also important to understand that this same accountability is lacking internally where it effectively thwarts attempts to manage the institution rationally; i.e., informed with a continuous flow of mission-critical performance information. With the scant objective information at their command, college presidents and their associates must perform as shamans, reading the tea leaves of opinion and passion among stakeholders.
  • On balance, America's institutions of higher education function in a managerial vacuum.
  • Gary Brown on 02 Mar 10
     
    More of the same and the discussion is familiar--our challenge is to bring this topic to the attention of our points.
Theron DesRosier

Building a Network, Expanding the Commons, Shaping the Field: Two Perspectives on Devel... - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...ding-network-expanding-commons

sotl network

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  • Theron DesRosier on 01 Mar 10
     
    " The two articles presented here discuss the possibilities of using online technologies to respond to these challenges. Authors Jennifer Meta Robinson and Tom Carey consider the question of how online environments might not only house collections of SOTL contributions and reflections on pedagogical practice, but also host ongoing exchanges about how these contributions can be used and developed more fully by both teachers and researchers. While Robinson and Carey share much common ground--indeed, as will be obvious, they have participated together in many discussions about these issues--they come at the challenges from different perspectives."
Gary Brown

JESS3 / The State of The Internet on Vimeo - 2 views

vimeo.com/9641036

Internet

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  • The State of The Internet
  • Gary Brown on 28 Feb 10
     
    good resource
Nils Peterson

Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies | Socialmedia.biz - 1 views

www.socialmedia.biz/...-on-essential-media-literacies

shared by Nils Peterson on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Howard hit on one major take­away that I had from our week in the UK. “Increas­ingly I think the dig­i­tal divide is less about access to tech­nol­ogy and more about the dif­fer­ence between those who know how and those who don’t know how,” he said. He’s con­vinced that what’s most impor­tant is not access to the Inter­net — we have more than a bil­lion peo­ple on the Inter­net now and there are 4 bil­lion phones out there — but access to knowl­edge and lit­era­cies for the dig­i­tal age. “The abil­ity to know has sud­denly become the abil­ity to search and the abil­ity to sift” and dis­cern. “Skill plus social” is the key.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 28 Feb 10
       
      Howard Rhiengold on his idea about the digital divide
Joshua Yeidel

Mind - New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...23mind.html

mind

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 24 Feb 10
     
    ""We think that humans build relationships precisely for this reason, to distribute problem solving across brains," said James A. Coan, a a psychologist at the University of Virginia. "We are wired to literally share the processing load, "
  • Joshua Yeidel on 24 Feb 10
     
    A biological aspect of social learning, in an article about the power of human physical contact.
Jayme Jacobson

Blurring the Boundaries: Social Networking & ePortfolio Development - 2 views

docs.google.com/Doc

portfolios social networking learning identity

shared by Jayme Jacobson on 24 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Jayme Jacobson on 24 Feb 10
     
    Helen Barrett does a nice job of formally bringing together a number of threads we've been exploring. She weaves in Pink's new book "Drive," Csíkszentmihályi and Flow and many other popular but relevant voices. I think this is worth absorbing into some of our work.
Gary Brown

Discussion: American Evaluation Association | LinkedIn - 1 views

www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers

visual thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 23 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • The Periodic Table of Visualization Methods gives examples and categorizes each of approximately 100 ways to express data visually http://ow.ly/v9RI
  • Gary Brown on 23 Feb 10
     
    interesting resource
Gary Brown

Video Chat with Education Author Alfie Kohn - 1 views

www.convergemag.com/...ucation-Author-Alfie-Kohn.html

motivation homework

shared by Gary Brown on 23 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "The reality is that outcomes in education are determined in large part by the attitudes and goals and perspectives of the real living human beings, the learners in our classrooms,"
  • So if they regard homework as pointless, as frustrating, as unlikely to be beneficial, as something they thoroughly detest, it would be extroardinary to find research that finds an achievement effect despite the way they regard it, and in fact the research provides just what would be predicated from a non-behaviorist point of view, namely that it doesn't tend to be beneficial."
  • Gary Brown on 23 Feb 10
     
    Kohn, as usual, challenges convention, probably intractable assumptions about how people learn. But please don't confuse us with facts.
Nils Peterson

Top Fed Official Warns Jobs Will Be Scarce As 'Paradigm Shift' Slows Hiring - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...fficial-warns-jo_n_471681.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Over the last three quarters worker productivity jumped an average of 6.8 percent, the highest three-quarter average in more than 40 years. Meanwhile, the economy has shed 8.4 million jobs since December 2007.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Feb 10
       
      In our univ. cost cutting, can any productivity gains be claimed? measured as graduates/total payroll perhaps. measured as learning outcomes for 21st century...doubtful
Theron DesRosier

Obama proposes to raise academic standards by linking them to state benchmarks - washin... - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2010022202330.html

accreditation accountability standards

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  • Theron DesRosier on 22 Feb 10
     
    "President Obama announced Monday he will seek to raise academic standards across the country by requiring states to certify that their benchmarks for reading and mathematics put students on track for college or a career. "
  • Theron DesRosier on 22 Feb 10
     
    NCLB Revives.
Gary Brown

Higher Education: Assessment & Process Improvement Group News | LinkedIn - 2 views

www.linkedin.com/news

accountability

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  • Gary Brown on 21 Feb 10
     
    The Forbes take--more vocationalism, more quality, less focus on quality, contain costs. Not interesting except as an example of how the work of higher ed is perceived in the business press.
Nils Peterson

Assess this!: Assessment of learning is more complicated than it is (?) - 0 views

assessory.blogspot.com/...sment-of-learning-is-more.html

shared by Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • "I still feel like there's no there there" when it comes to colleges' efforts to measure student learning, Kevin Carey, policy director at Education Sector, said in a speech at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation meeting Tuesday.Views like Carey's, which are widely held by policy experts who look at higher education from the outside, tend to aggravate faculty members and other professionals in the industry to no end...given how much assessment activity is unfolding on the campuses.That's where the disconnect comes in. Most of the assessment activity on campuses can be found in nooks and crannies of the institutions - by individual professors, or in one department - and it is often not tied to goals set broadly at the institutional level. Some of it has been undertaken directly in response to the outside calls for accountability, and seems workmanlike - testing or measurement done for measurement's sake.To be ultimately successful, any meaningful assessment effort must be embraced widely by instructors...and to do that, "you've got to start this conversation as an instructional conversation that includes assessment".... It must begin with agreement (in a department, a college, and ultimately across a discipline or institution) about the learning goals that students should derive from the curriculum - and then intensive work to infuse the skills needed to reach those goals into the curriculum, course by course....
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 10
       
      see Gary's oft-repeated comment about assessment is part of T&L. Also note the tension Ewell mentions
Nils Peterson

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment - 1 views

learningoutcomesassessment.org/occasionalpapertwo.htm

NILOA Trudy Banta

shared by Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Of the various ways to assess student learning outcomes, many faculty members prefer what are called “authentic” approaches that document student performance during or at the end of a course or program of study.  Authentic assessments typically ask students to generate rather than choose a response to demonstrate what they know and can do.  In their best form, such assessments are flexible and closely aligned with teaching and learning processes, and represent some of students more meaningful educational experiences.  In this paper, assessment experts Trudy Banta, Merilee Griffin, Theresa Flateby, and Susan Kahn describe the development of several promising authentic assessment approaches. 
  • Educators and policy makers in postsecondary education are interested in assessment processes that improve student learning, and at the same time provide comparable data for the purpose of demonstrating accountability.
  • First, ePortfolios provide an in-depth, long-term view of student achievement on a range of skills and abilities instead of a quick snapshot based on a single sample of learning outcomes. Second, a system of rubrics used to evaluate student writing and depth of learning has been combined with faculty learning and team assessments, and is now being used at multiple institutions. Third, online assessment communities link local faculty members in collaborative work to develop shared norms and teaching capacity, and then link local communities with each other in a growing system of assessment.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 10
       
      hey, does this sound familiar? i'm guessing the portfolios are not anywhere on the Internet, but we're otherwise in good company
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  • Three Promising Alternatives for Assessing College Students' Knowledge and Skills
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 10
       
      I'm not sure they are 'alternatives' so much as 3 elements we would combine into a single strategy
Joshua Yeidel

Improving Your Assessment Processes: Q&A with Linda Suskie - 0 views

www.magnetmail.net/...email_web_version.cfm

assessment higher_education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 18 Feb 10
     
    "Q: What elements help make institutional effectiveness assessment successful? Suskie: One factor really stands out: If institutional leaders really value assessment results and use them to inform important decisions on important goals, your institutional effectiveness efforts will be a resounding success."
Joshua Yeidel

The Three-Minute Rule - Anthony Tjan - Harvard Business Review - 3 views

blogs.hbr.org/...the-threeminute-rule.html

software_design

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 17 Feb 10
     
    "You can learn a great deal about customers by studying the broader context in which they use your product or service. To do this, ask what your customer is doing three minutes immediately before and three minutes after he uses your product or service."
Theron DesRosier

News: Student Data Systems, Unite! - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

www.insidehighered.com/...data

education standards data assessment change

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  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Feb 10
     
    "Step by step, an infrastructure is emerging that would make it possible for dozens of states to share data about the students in their K-12 and postsecondary education systems, creating the equivalent of a national system of data on students' educational progress. "
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