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Joshua Yeidel

Browsealoud - accessibility software, text to speech software, screen reader, dyslexia,... - 0 views

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accessibility web_2.0

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  • Browsealoud reads web pages aloud for people who find it difficult to read online. Reading large amounts of text on screen can be difficult for those with literacy and visual impairments.
  • Browsealoud makes using the Internet easier for people who have: Low literacy and reading skills English as a second language Dyslexia Mild visual impairments
  • Joshua Yeidel on 09 Jan 09
     
    Browsealoud makes using the Internet easier for people who have: * Low literacy and reading skills * English as a second language * Dyslexia * Mild visual impairments Browsealoud is _not_ a replacement for a screen reader, but is convenient for some classes of users. As critical learning functions move increasingly online, we will need to know about this kind of affordance.
Theron DesRosier

techPresident - Looking at Voter-Generated Presence on Candidate Websites - 0 views

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2.0 networked governance identity google juice

shared by Theron DesRosier on 09 Dec 08 - Cached
  • As candidates cede authority over their web presence to supporters, allowing the posting of voter-generated content to campaign sites
  • Theron DesRosier on 09 Dec 08
     
    This article compares the Google index rating of canditates who allowed the posting of voter generated content on their site with those that didn't. In other words: Web 2.0 vs. Web 1 approach relative to the number of pages google had indexed from the site.
Nils Peterson

2009 Annual Meeting | Conference Program - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09 - Cached
  • This session explores the notion that assessment for transformational learning is best utilized as a learning tool. By providing timely, transparent, and appropriate feedback, both to students and to the institution itself, learning is enhanced – a far different motive for assessment than is external accountability.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      need to get to these guys with our harvesting gradebook ideas...
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      decided to attend another session. Hersh was OK before lunch, but the talk by Pan looks more promising
  • Academic and corporate communities agree on the urgent need for contemporary, research-based pedagogies of engagement in STEM fields. Participants will learn how leaders from academic departments and institutions have collaborated with leaders from the corporate and business community in regional networks to ensure that graduates meet the expectations of prospective employers and the public.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      here is another session with links to CTLT work, both harvesting gradebook and the ABET work
  • Professor Pan will discuss the reflective teaching methods used to prepare students to recognize and mobilize community assets as they design, implement, and evaluate projects to improve public health.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      Students tasked to learn about a community, ride the bus, make a Doc appt. Then tasked to do a non-clinical health project in that community (they do plenty of clinical stuff elsewhere in the program). Project must build capacity in the community to survive after the student leaves. Example. Work with hispanic parents in Sacramento about parenting issue, ex getting kids to sleep on time. Student had identified problem in the community, but first project idea was show a video, which was not capacity building. Rather than showing the video, used the video as a template and made a new video. Families were actors. Result was spanish DVD that the community could own. Pan thinks this is increased capacity in the community.
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  • Freshman Survey annually examines the academic habits of mind of entering first-year students.  Along with academic involvement, the survey examines diversity, civic engagement, college admissions and expectations of college. 
  • The project aims to promote faculty and student assessment of undergraduate research products in relation to outcomes associated with basic research skills and general undergraduate learning principles (communication and quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and integration and application of knowledge).
  • They focus educators on the magnitude of the challenge to prepare an ever-increasingly diverse, globally-connected student body with the knowledge, ability, processes, and confidence to adapt to diverse environments and respond creatively to the enormous issues facing humankind.
  • One challenge of civic engagement in the co-curriculum is the merging of cost and outcome: creating meaningful experiences for students and the community with small staffs, on small budgets, while still having significant, purposeful impact. 
  • a)claims that faculty are the sole arbiters of what constitutes a liberal education and b) counter claims that student life professionals also possess the knowledge and expertise critical to defining students’ total learning experiences.  
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      also, how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
  • This session introduces a three-year national effort to document how colleges and universities are using assessment data to improve teaching and learning and to facilitate the dissemination and adoption of best practices in the assessment of college learning outcomes.
  • Exciting pedagogies of engagement abound, including undergraduate research, community-engaged learning, interdisciplinary exploration, and international study.  However, such experiences are typically optional and non-credit-bearing for students, and/or “on top of” the workload for faculty. This session explores strategies for integrating engaged learning into the institutional fabric (curriculum, student role, faculty role) and increasing access to these transformative experiences.
  • hands-on experiential learning, especially in collaboration with other students, is a superior pedagogy but how can this be provided in increasingly larger introductory classes? 
  • As educators seek innovative ways to manage knowledge and expand interdisciplinary attention to pressing global issues, as students and parents look for assurances that their tuition investment will pay professional dividends, and as alumni look for meaningful ways to give back to the institutions that nurtured and prepared them, colleges and universities can integrate these disparate goals through the Guilds, intergenerational membership networks that draw strength from the contributions of all of their members.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      see Theron's ideas for COMM.
  • Civic engagement learning derives its power from the engagement of students with real communities—local, national, and global. This panel explores the relationship between student learning and the contexts in which that learning unfolds by examining programs that place students in diverse contexts close to campus and far afield.
  • For institutional assessment to make a difference for student learning its results must result in changes in classroom practice. This session explores ways in which the institutional assessment of student learning, such as the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education and the Collegiate Learning Assessment, can be connected to our classrooms.
  • Interdisciplinary Teaching and Object-Based Learning in Campus Museums
  • To address pressing needs of their communities, government and non-profit agencies are requesting higher education to provide education in an array of human and social services. To serve these needs effectively, higher educationneeds to broaden and deepen its consultation with practitioners in designing new curricula. Colleges and universities would do well to consider a curriculum development model that requires consultation not only with potential employers, but also with practitioners and supervisors of practitioners.
  • Should Academics be Active? Campuses and Cutting Edge Civic Engagement
  • If transformational liberal education requires engaging the whole student across the educational experience, how can colleges and universities renew strategy and allocate resources effectively to support it?  How can assessment be used to improve student learning and strengthen a transformational learning environment? 
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      Purpose of university is not to grant degrees, it has something to do with learning. Keeling's perspective is that the learning should be transformative; changing perspective. Liberating and emancipatory Learning is a complex interaction among student and others, new knowledge and experience, event, own aspirations. learners construct meaning from these elements. "we change our minds" altering the brain at the micro-level Brain imaging research demonstrates that analogical learning (abstract) demands more from more areas of the brain than semantic (concrete) learning. Mind is not an abstraction, it is based in the brain, a working physical organ .Learner and the environment matter to the learning. Seeds magazine, current issue on brain imaging and learning. Segway from brain research to need for university to educate the whole student. Uses the term 'transformative learning' meaning to transform the learning (re-wire the brain) but does not use transformative assessment (see wikipedia).
  • But as public debates roil, higher education has been more reactive than proactive on the question of how best to ensure that today’s students are fully prepared for a fast-paced future.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 22 Jan 09
       
      Bologna process being adopted (slowly) in EU, the idea is to make academic degrees more interchangeable and understandable across the EU three elements * Qualification Frameworks (transnational, national, disciplinary). Frameworks are graduated, with increasing expertise and autonomy required for the upper levels. They sound like broad skills that we might recognize in the WSU CITR. Not clear how they are assessed * Tuning (benchmarking) process * Diploma Supplements (licensure, thesis, other capstone activities) these extend the information in the transcript. US equivalent might be the Kuali Students system for extending the transcript. Emerging dialog on American capability This dialog is coming from 2 directions * on campus * employers Connect to the Greater Exceptions (2000-2005) iniative. Concluded that American HE has islands of innovation. Lead to LEAP (Liberal Education and America's Promise) Initiative (2005-2015). The dialog is converging because of several forces * Changes in the balance of economic and political power. "The rise of the rest (of the world)" * Global economy in which innovation is key to growth and prosperity LEAP attempts to frame the dialog (look for LEAP in AACU website). Miami-Dade CC has announced a LEAP-derived covenant, the goals must span all aspects of their programs. Define liberal education Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world intellectual and practical skills responsibility integrative skills Marker of success is (here is where the Transformative Gradebook fits in): evidence that students can apply the essential learning outcomes to complex, unscripted problems and real-world settings Current failure -- have not tracked our progress, or have found that we are not doing well. See AACU employer survey 5-10% percent of current graduates taking courses that would meet the global competencies (transcript analysis) See NSSE on Personal and social responsibility gains, less tha
  • Dr. Pan will also talk about strategies for breaking down cultural barriers.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 24 Jan 09
       
      Pan. found a non-profit agency to be a conduit and coordinator to level the power between univ and grass roots orgs. helped with cultural gaps.
Joshua Yeidel

ACM Ubiquity - An Interview with Michael Schrage - 0 views

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shared by Joshua Yeidel on 20 Nov 08 - Cached
  • I learn about the organization's innovation culture as follows: I say that, when someone comes up with an idea you think is a good one and people say, "We can't do that because..." then whatever follows the words "we can't do that because... " is your innovation culture.
  • UBIQUITY: What turns people into such dolts? SCHRAGE:         Internal imperatives.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 20 Nov 08
     
    An MIT Media Lab expert on innovation says it's about outcomes, not ideas.
Nils Peterson

Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen: Thanks to the People Who Worked on OffTheBus; Here's ... - 0 views

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community huffingtonpost crowd-source

shared by Nils Peterson on 19 Nov 08 - Cached
  • In fact, OffTheBus was such a success that HuffPost intends to make the crowd sourcing and distributed journalism methods developed and honed by OTB during the election an integral part of our editorial process -- utilizing them across all of our different sections.
Nils Peterson

NCIIA - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 13 Nov 08 - Cached
  • The NCIIA works with colleges and universities to build collaborative experiential learning programs that help nurture a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs with strong technical and business skills and the tools and intention to make the world a better place.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 13 Nov 08
       
      Another attempt to bring authentic problems in community to the univeristy curriculum
Nils Peterson

Balancing the Two Faces of ePortfolios - Researching Lifelong ePortfolios and Web 2.0 |... - 0 views

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Helen Barrett showcase-workspace

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  • Nils Peterson on 03 Feb 09
     
    Helen Barrett attempting to balance portfolio typologies
  • Nils Peterson on 03 Feb 09
     
    diagram of relationship between workspace and showcase portfolio
Theron DesRosier

techPresident - Daily Digest: Did the Internet Matter? - 0 views

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techpresident politics 2.0

shared by Theron DesRosier on 01 Dec 08 - Cached
  • "Does the Internet Matter?": That's the title of a new report out from Temple University's Institute for Business and Information Technology. Making use of some techPresident data, Temple's Sunil Wattal, David Schuff, and Munir Mandviwalla considered how social media in particular shaped the '08 presidential primaries. Their conclusion? While YouTube and MySpace may help lesser-known candidates find footing, only blogs seem to correlate with boosts in Gallup poll numbers. ( You might notice that the report requires a password, but we've got one for you: "templeowls.")
  • Theron DesRosier on 01 Dec 08
     
    From the Techapresident post: "Does the Internet Matter?": That's the title of a new report out from Temple University's Institute for Business and Information Technology. Making use of some techPresident data, Temple's Sunil Wattal, David Schuff, and Munir Mandviwalla considered how social media in particular shaped the '08 presidential primaries. Their conclusion? While YouTube and MySpace may help lesser-known candidates find footing, only blogs seem to correlate with boosts in Gallup poll numbers. ( You might notice that the report requires a password, but we've got one for you: "templeowls.")
Joshua Yeidel

HB 1946 - 2009-10 - 0 views

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washington state higher education

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  • Feb 3 First reading, referred to Higher Education. (View Original Bill)  
  • Joshua Yeidel on 18 Feb 09
     
    Feb 3 First reading, referred to Higher Education. (View Original Bill) Feb 17 Public hearing in the House Committee on Higher Education at 10:00 AM. Feb 18 Executive session in the House Committee on Higher Education at 1:30 PM.
Theron DesRosier

Internal Communications - 0 views

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  • Post your event on the WSU calendar as soon as a date is set
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      RSS from Calendar is empty
    • Joshua Yeidel
      Joshua Yeidel on 18 Feb 09
       
      Cool, Nils!
  • Send details to WSU Today for use in Web site sections such as
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      RSS has items in strange sort order, Yahoo Pipes can re-sort. Bob Frank notified
  • Submit your brief announcements to the popular campus e-mail newsletter
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      No RSS from this
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  • The myWSU portal provides a means to send official notices targeted
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      Link should go to Becoming a Notice sender
  • Create a special email list
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 18 Feb 09
       
      Is there a way to get RSS from Mailman?
Nils Peterson

ECAR on the PLE and the LMS « EDITing in the Dark - 0 views

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ecar web2.0 LMS

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  • The shortcomings of LMSs may, however, have as much to do with institutions’ lack of understanding about how to facilitate learning with them as with the inadequacies of the systems themselves. “
  • the ethos of the LMS and the “wild web” seem to be working against each other if we are trying  to create “professional” or “life long” learners, similar to Martin Weller’s thoughts on the situation.
  • Nils Peterson on 24 Feb 09
     
    I went looking for the ECAR report on LMS & Web 2.0, found this
Matthew Tedder

Researchers Mod Unreal Tournament to Teach Science | SciTechBits - Interesting Bits of ... - 0 views

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education games game

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  • Matthew Tedder on 07 Oct 09
     
    The holy grail of education, at least for software designers, remains a highly addictive game that teaches effectively, at its core.
Gary Brown

News: Assessing the Assessments - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • In other words, a college that ranked in the 95th percentile for critical thinking using one of the tests would rank in roughly the same place using the critical thinking component of one of the other two tests, and vice versa.
    • Gary Brown
      Gary Brown on 05 Nov 09
       
      A stellar example of critical thinking, this sentence.
  • diversity in measurement" to satisfy faculty
Gary Brown

The Ticker - Most Colleges Try to Assess Student Learning, Survey Finds - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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assessment faculty engagement

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  • October 26, 2009, 02:53 PM ET Most Colleges Try to Assess Student Learning, Survey Finds A large majority of American colleges make at least some formal effort to assess their students' learning, but most have few or no staff members dedicated to doing so. Those are among the findings of a survey report released Monday by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, a year-old project based at Indiana University and the University of Illinois. Of more than 1,500 provosts' offices that responded to the survey, nearly two-thirds said their institutions had two or fewer employees assigned to student assessment. Among large research universities, almost 80 percent cited a lack of faculty engagement as the most serious barrier to student-assessment projects.
  • Gary Brown on 26 Oct 09
     
    no news here, but it does suggest the commitment our unit represents.
Joshua Yeidel

News: Are Today's Grads Unprofessional? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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higher_education

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09
     
    "The results of the survey [of employers], released Friday, suggest that colleges need to change how they prepare their students for the working world, particularly by reinforcing soft skills like honoring workplace etiquette and having a positive demeanor. " -- Oh, yes, and get rid of the tatoos and piercings.
  • Joshua Yeidel on 05 Nov 09
     
    Relevant to Gary's post about Career Services and Liberal Arts -- can "professionalism" be part of the curriculum?
Joshua Yeidel

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning - 0 views

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higher_education accountability

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Nov 09
     
    "This paper describes the implementation of a quantitative cost effectiveness analyzer for Web-supported academic instruction that was developed in Tel Aviv University during a long term study."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Nov 09
     
    The king of indirect measures, putting the "count" in accountability via web log analysis.
Joshua Yeidel

Google Wave Use Cases: Education - 0 views

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higher_education wave

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Nov 09
     
    "After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. Entitled 'Wave in Class,' the wave was started to explore concepts like "Collaborative Note Taking" and "Wave as a Debate Host." "
  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Nov 09
     
    So it begins... the usual range of reactrions when a new technology is introduced, and educators begin to spin salvation or doom on top of it. Interestingly, there are already a couple of comments on this blog that use Wave concepts to challenge the context (the "class").
Joshua Yeidel

Brainstorm - The Occupation Will Be Televised - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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higher_education accountability

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Oct 09
     
    The poster in the accompanying picture says: "Education is not for sale". "In response to the massive re-orientation of education toward job training, privatization and the standardization of curricular outcomes mandated by the Bologna Process, students across Europe have been turning out by the thousands. This past June, as many as 250,000 students, parents, schoolteachers, college faculty and staff coordinated a week-long education strike in 90 cities across Germany."
  • Joshua Yeidel on 23 Oct 09
     
    Apropos of Ashley's comments about European views of accreditation and accountability: apparently standardization of curricular outcomes is facing some opposition.
Gary Brown

Audio: Community Colleges Create a Measuring Stick - Community Colleges - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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accountability community colleges

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  • Joe D. May: Community Colleges Create a Measuring Stick
  • Gary Brown on 11 Nov 09
     
    nothing new here beyond the headline, but another to save for our collection. "Transparency comes with risk," says Joe.
Gary Brown

Scholars Assess Their Progress on Improving Student Learning - Research - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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teaching learning assessment

shared by Gary Brown on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which drew 650 people. The scholars who gathered here were cautiously hopeful about colleges' commitment to the study of student learning, even as the Carnegie Foundation winds down its own project. (Mr. Shulman stepped down as president last year, and the foundation's scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning program formally came to an end last week.) "It's still a fragile thing," said Pat Hutchings, the Carnegie Foundation's vice president, in an interview here. "But I think there's a huge amount of momentum." She cited recent growth in faculty teaching centers,
  • Mary Taylor Huber, director of the foundation's Integrative Learning Project, said that pressure from accrediting organizations, policy makers, and the public has encouraged colleges to pour new resources into this work.
  • The scholars here believe that it is much more useful to try to measure and improve student learning at the level of individual courses. Institutionwide tests like the Collegiate Learning Assessment have limited utility at best, they said.
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  • Mr. Bass and Toru Iiyoshi, a senior strategist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's office of educational innovation and technology, pointed to an emerging crop of online multimedia projects where college instructors can share findings about their teaching. Those sites include Merlot and the Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive.
  • "We need to create 'middle spaces' for the scholarship of teaching and learning," said Randall Bass, assistant provost for teaching and learning initiatives at Georgetown University, during a conference session on Friday.
  • "If you use a more generic instrument, you can give the accreditors all the data in the world, but that's not really helpful to faculty at the department level," said the society's president, Jennifer Meta Robinson, in an interview. (Ms. Robinson is also a senior lecturer in communication and culture at Indiana University at Bloomington.)
  • It is vital, Ms. Peseta said, for scholars' articles about teaching and learning to be engaging and human. But at the same time, she urged scholars not to dumb down their statistical analyses or the theoretical foundations of their studies. She even put in a rare good word for jargon.
  • No one had a ready answer. Ms. Huber, of the Carnegie Foundation, noted that a vast number of intervening variables make it difficult to assess the effectiveness of any educational project.
  • "Well, I guess we have a couple of thousand years' worth of evidence that people don't listen to each other, and that we don't build knowledge," Mr. Bass quipped. "So we're building on that momentum."
  • Gary Brown on 26 Oct 09
     
    Note our friends Randy Bass (AAEEBL) and Mary Huber are prominent.
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