CTLT and Friends

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"Based on current estimates, to reach the 60 percent level by 2025, the U.S. higher education system must produce 23 million more college graduates than are expected at present rates of production. The actual size of the gap will shift annually, as we make progress and new data become available. Obviously, we can't close this gap overnight. But, for example, if we can start to increase the rate of attainment each year and produce 150,000 more graduates than the year before - an annual increase of about 5 percent - we will reach the big goal by 2025."

adding 150,000 more college graduates/year each year from now to 2025 is a significant scaling up. Spread over 5000 institutions its only 30/institution on average, which many could manage. Or perhaps Western Governors could absorb many of them.

Google engineer David Wang explains how collaborative editing through concurrency control and operational transform work in Google Wave.

Under-the-hood (but very general) description of how Google wave handles concurrent edits.

The lack of mental models is revealed here in numbers. What faculty perceive as substantial technology integration is perceived somewhat differently by students according to this study.

"Online programs are generally profitable. But despite the buzz about Web 2.0, the education they provide is still dominated by rudimentary, text-based technology." "Any innovation... [is] really to supplement what is still a pretty rudimentary core."

This is from BBC news this morning on the education technology trade show, BETT, in London.

It's way too easy to go global now, whether with your feelings, your money or your nightmares. The road to hell is paved with immediacy:

A funny, personal, and surprisingly moving talk about Tom Waits, Allah, and poems that come like trains of air.

Written with an eye to advising a bright student who is home schooled, but also to capture my advice and strategy for Palouse Prairie. \n\nSince i see we are starting to develop a 'blogging' thread in this Diigo group, and such a tool could be part of strategy for what to tell faculty, I decided to bookmark this into that stream.

A cyberlaw professor argues that Wikipedia is doomed. The online encyclopedia will need to choose between being "high quality" and "open," but both choices are fraught with risk.

Introduction to the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's "Spaces for Interaction" program. AACE runs conferences, and they are asking how technology can improve the posibilities for interaction at and around conferences.