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Gary Brown

Postgraduate Wrath - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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employers

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  • "So, what I want to know is, why are you wasting money on glossy fundraising brochures full of meaningless synonyms for the word 'Excellence'? And, why are you sending them to ME? Yes, I know that I got a master's degree at your fine institution, but that master's degree hasn't done jack ---- for me since I got it! I have been unemployed for the past TWO YEARS and I am now a professional resume-submitter, sending out dozens of resumes a month to employers, and the degree I received in your hallowed halls is at the TOP OF IT and it doesn't do a ----ing thing."
  • Who knows how smart and conscientious and skilled the graduate really is. He might falter in face-to-face interviews, or have an overly-thin resume. But that doesn't change the fact that the school in question admitted the student, put him through a public policy curriculum, and accredited him. If the writer is a klutz, then that, too, reflects upon the university that trained him.
  • Obviously, this student doesn't recall any non-vocational learning that happened, or doesn't respect it. He even terms the education he received "imaginary."
  • Gary Brown on 14 May 10
     
    As we wrestle with resistence to employer feedback in assessment, this side of the story gains a bit of press.
Gary Brown

More thinking about the alignment project « The Weblog of (a) David Jones - 0 views

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alignment

shared by Gary Brown on 14 May 10 - Cached
  • he dominant teaching experience for academics is teaching an existing course, generally one the academic has taught previously. In such a setting, academics spend most of their time fine tuning a course or making minor modifications to material or content (Stark, 2000)
  • many academic staff continue to employ inappropriate, teacher-centered, content focused strategies”. If the systems and processes of university teaching and learning practice do not encourage and enable everyday consideration of alignment, is it surprising that many academics don’t consider alignment?
  • student learning outcomes are significantly higher when there are strong links between those learning outcomes, assessment tasks, and instructional activities and materials.
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  • Levander and Mikkola (2009) describe the full complexity of managing alignment at the degree level which makes it difficult for the individual teacher and the program coordinator to keep connections between courses in mind.
  • Make explicit the quality model.
  • Build in support for quality enhancement.
  • Institute a process for quality feasibility.
  • Cohen (1987) argues that limitations in learning are not mainly caused by ineffective teaching, but are instead mostly the result of a misalignment between what teachers teach, what they intend to teach, and what they assess as having been taught.
  • Raban (2007) observes that the quality management systems of most universities employ procedures that are retrospective and weakly integrated with long term strategic planning. He continues to argue that the conventional quality management systems used by higher education are self-defeating as they undermine the commitment and motivation of academic staff through an apparent lack of trust, and divert resources away from the core activities of teaching and research (Raban, 2007, p. 78).
  • Ensure participation of formal institutional leadership and integration with institutional priorities.
  • Action research perspective, flexible responsive.
  • Having a scholarly, not bureaucratic focus.
  • Modifying an institutional information system.
  • A fundamental enabler of this project is the presence of an information system that is embedded into the everyday practice of teaching and learning (for both students and staff) that encourages and enables consideration of alignment.
  • Gary Brown on 14 May 10
     
    a long blog, but underlying principles align with the Guide to Effective Assessment on many levels.
Joshua Yeidel

Evaluations That Make the Grade: 4 Ways to Improve Rating the Faculty - Teaching - The ... - 0 views

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evaluations assessment

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    Four (somewhat) different types of course evals, closing with a tip of the hat to multiple measures.
Joshua Yeidel

As AAU Admits Georgia Tech to Its Exclusive Club, Other Universities Await the Call - F... - 0 views

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aau higher_education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    "On Tuesday the invitation-only association made it official, naming Georgia Tech to the exclusive group that now numbers 63 universities... but several other university leaders may be scratching their heads and wondering why their campuses haven't made the grade."
Joshua Yeidel

Digication e-Portfolios: Highered - Assessment - 0 views

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portfolio assessment program

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    "Our web-based assessment solution for tracking, comparing, and reporting on student progress and performance gives faculty and administrators the tools they need to assess a class, department, or institution based on your standards, goals, or objectives. The Digication AMS integrates tightly with our award winning e-Portfolio system, enabling students to record and showcase learning outcomes within customizable, media friendly templates."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    Could this start out as with program portfolios, and bgrow to include student work?
Gary Brown

New test measures students' digital literacy | eCampus News - 0 views

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tests information literacy critical thinking

shared by Gary Brown on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Employers are looking for candidates who can navigate, critically evaluate, and make sense of the wealth of information available through digital media—and now educators have a new way to determine a student’s baseline digital literacy with a certification exam that measures the test-taker’s ability to assess information, think critically, and perform a range of real-world tasks.
  • iCritical Thinking Certification, created by the Educational Testing Service and Certiport, reveals whether or not a person is able to combine technical skills with experiences and knowledge.
  • Monica Brooks, Marshall University’s assistant vice president for Information Technology: Online Learning and Libraries, said her school plans to use iCritical Thinking beginning in the fall.
  • Gary Brown on 13 Apr 10
     
    the alternate universe, a small step away...
Joshua Yeidel

ILT - Nov 2009 issue - 0 views

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learning social learning

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    "In three issues for Inside Learning Technologies, Jane Hart shares the rpos and cons of building three types of social learning environment, and how to deliver them at low or no cost."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    Assessment is not even mentioned, but the series is still useful.
Joshua Yeidel

Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Using Facebook for Your Customer Communi... - 0 views

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social learning web2.0

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    "Last week I got exposed to the other side of Facebook, namely their ability to rescind or suspend accounts without any notification, explanation, or seemingly any recourse."
Joshua Yeidel

Ning's Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff - 0 views

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ning web2.0 social networking

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    "One month after long-time Ning CEO Gina Bianchini was replaced by COO Jason Rosenthal, the company is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere. Rosenthal has also just announced that the company has cut nearly 70 people - over 40% of its staff."
Theron DesRosier

Ning Update - Creators - 0 views

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update ning

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  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Apr 10
     
    Ning converting to pay site.
Gary Brown

How to Prepare Students for Careers - 0 views

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careers

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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
Nils Peterson

News & Broadcast - World Bank Frees Up Development Data - 0 views

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open data Hans Rosling World Bank

shared by Nils Peterson on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • April 20, 2010—The World Bank Group said today it will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers.
  • Hans Rosling, Gapminder Foundation co-founder and vigorous advocate of open data at the World Bank, said, “It’s the right thing to do, because it will foster innovation. That is the most important thing.”He said he hoped the move would inspire more tools for visualizing data and set an example for other international institutions.
  • The new website at data.worldbank.org offers full access to data from 209 countries, with some of the data going back 50 years. Users will be able to download entire datasets for a particular country or indicator, quickly access raw data, click a button to comment on the data, email and share data with social media sites, says Neil Fantom, a senior statistician at the World Bank.
Joshua Yeidel

Op-Ed Columnist - Riders on the Storm - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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web_2.0

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  • Sunstein’s fear was that the Internet might lead to a more ghettoized, polarized and insular electorate.
  • Yet new research complicates this picture
Theron DesRosier

The Future of Thinking - The MIT Press - 0 views

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mit education web2.0

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  • Theron DesRosier on 22 Apr 10
     
    "Over the past two decades, the way we learn has changed dramatically. We have new sources of information and new ways to exchange and to interact with information. But our schools and the way we teach have remained largely the same for years, even centuries. What happens to traditional educational institutions when learning also takes place on a vast range of Internet sites, from Pokemon Web pages to Wikipedia? This report investigates how traditional learning institutions can become as innovative, flexible, robust, and collaborative as the best social networking sites. The authors propose an alternative definition of "institution" as a "mobilizing network"-emphasizing its flexibility, the permeability of its boundaries, its interactive productivity, and its potential as a catalyst for change-and explore the implications for higher education."
  • Theron DesRosier on 22 Apr 10
     
    A new book by Cathy Davidson.
Nils Peterson

Community as Curriculum - vol 2. The Guild/Distributed Continuum @ Dave's Educational Blog - 0 views

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  • Community as curriculum is not meant as a simple alternative to the package version of learning. It is, rather, meant to point to the learning that takes place on top of that model and to point to the strategies for continuing learning throughout a career. There is a base amount of knowledge that is required to be able to enter a community, and there are methods for acquiring the specific kinds of literacy needed to learn within a specific community.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Apr 10
       
      "[Rather it is] meant to point to the learning that takes place *on top of that model* and to point to the strategies for continuing learning throughout a career." Dave is stacking community learning as a layer OVER more traditional models, which I think is a different view than we articulated in our Spectrum
Theron DesRosier

Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War - PowerPoint - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
  • The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake. Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Hammes said, are known as “hypnotizing chickens.”
Joshua Yeidel

Digication :: NCCC Art Department Program Evaluation :: Purpose of Evaluation - 0 views

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portfolio assessment program

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 27 Apr 10
     
    An eportfolio for program evaluation by the Northwest Connecticut Community College Art Department. Slick, well-organized, and pretty using Digication as a platform and host. A fine portfolio, which could well be a model for our programs, except that there is not a single direct measure of student learning outcomes.
Theron DesRosier

Washington Wire - WSJ.com : Obama Puts Different Twist on Lipstick - 0 views

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weighing the lamb kozol

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  • The expression “you can’t fatten your lambs by weighing them” may be an expression in southern illinois but it was also used by Jonathan Kozol in his keynote speech to the Children’s Defense Fund in the early 90’s. I know. I have the tape of the speech. Obama likes to take the words of others and use as his own. Comment by catherine - September 10, 2008 at 6:32 am
  • Theron DesRosier on 16 Jan 09
     
    The expression "you can't fatten your lambs by weighing them" may be an expression in southern illinois but it was also used by Jonathan Kozol in his keynote speech to the Children's Defense Fund in the early 90's. I know. I have the tape of the speech. Obama likes to take the words of others and use as his own. Comment by catherine - September 10, 2008 at 6:32 am
Joshua Yeidel

Pearson: eLearning & Assessment | MyLabs - 0 views

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lms cloud pearson

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 30 Oct 08
     
    Another way in which LMS can move into the cloud (not necessarily Web 2.0, though)
Nils Peterson

New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Brief Introducti... - 0 views

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  • A key element in this transformation is shifting the unit of analysis from the learner in a single course to the learner over time, inside and outside the classroom. What does this shift imply for the ways we understand learning and development? If we accept this new learning paradigm, what kinds of accommodations do we need to make in our approaches to the curriculum, the classroom, the role of faculty, and the empowerment of learners?
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 12 Mar 09
       
      See our conversations about transformative assessment and problems as the motivators of study that span courses. We have a blog post from June, early in the Harvesting Gradebook work, that talks about these problems spanning courses
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