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How to Outlive the Profession of English: Research and Methods (Syllabus) | HASTAC - 0 views

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syllabus

shared by Peggy Collins on 23 Jul 09 - Cached

Peggy Collins on 23 Jul 09

from a academic in TX this link to an interesting syllabus for an English course

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Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment - 0 views

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outcomes_assessment

shared by Corinna Lo on 23 Jul 09 - Cached

Stimulus Spot Check | ProPublica: Stimulus Chase - 0 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 21 Jul 09 - Cached

Below is a random sample we assembled of 520 of the 5,800 stimulus-funded transportation projects nationwide, showing how much money to date the federal Department of Transportation has disbursed to individual transportation projects nationwide. We're asking you to help us figure out the status of these projects — whether the project has been started or has been completed, what company got the contract, and how many jobs the company says it retained or created for its stimulus contract.
- Nils Peterson on 21 Jul 09
  
  A different approach to harvesting. In this case, the audit is being commissioned by a 3rd party, the auditors are the community. The assessment criteria are simple (another assessment should come from state & local inspectors). The interesting data are the presence or status of the projects compared to what is claimed by the funder.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A different approach to harvesting. In this case, the audit is being commissioned by a 3rd party, the auditors are the community. The assessment criteria are simple (another assessment should come from state & local inspectors). The interesting data are the presence or status of the projects compared to what is claimed by the funder.</div>
  
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SimplyBox - Think Inside the Box - 0 views

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social_bookmark

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Joshua Yeidel on 21 Jul 09

Social Bookmarking on steroids -- not just links, but clips from pages you can put in a box.

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Wired Campus: David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the E... - 0 views

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Open_teaching

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Lorena O'English on 20 Jul 09

"By changing their homework assignments from disposable, private conversations between them and me (the way printed or e-mailed assignments work in students' minds) into public, online statements that became part of a continuing conversation, we realized very real benefits."

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News: Online and Interpersonal - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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edtech feedback

shared by Lorena O'English on 20 Jul 09 - Cached

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"Two professors from the University of Westminster in London explained research finding that use of educational technology such as blogs and online questionnaires, combined with personal tutors, could enhance the feedback loop while also making face-to-face communication more efficient."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Two professors from the University of Westminster in London explained research finding that use of educational technology such as blogs and online questionnaires, combined with personal tutors, could enhance the feedback loop while also making face-to-face communication more efficient."</div>

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GOOD | How do we achieve harmony? - 0 views

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education

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Matthew Tedder on 18 Jul 09

hmmm...

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History Is Scholarship; It's Also Literature - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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- Gary Brown on 17 Jul 09
  
  consider relationship of writing to critical thinking; grades to competencies....
  
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For me, the biggest challenge in teaching a course like this is getting students engaged in the difficult task of analyzing the exercises
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The deeper institutional issue is granting credit to graduate students for such a course
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"good writing" seems to mean, for many faculty members, that "You need to write in the style I like," or "I want to do less copy editing."
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Without departmental support, however, writing with literary imagination is not only difficult to teach but detrimental to graduate students because they will not get credited for the work nor be allowed by dissertation committees to use what they have learned
- Gary Brown on 17 Jul 09
  
  And why assessment cannot be extricated from teaching....
  
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History Is Scholarship; It's Also Literature Before we can educate graduate students about good writing, we may have to re-educate their professors
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EduTools Homepage - 0 views

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education_technology

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Many Colleges Assess Learning but May Not Use Data to Improve, Survey Finds -... - 0 views

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Assessment

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FT.com / Technology / New Technology Policy Forum - A closed mind about an open world - 0 views

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MRG opensource

shared by Nils Peterson on 16 Jul 09 - Cached

It is not that openness is always right. Rather, it is that we need a balance between open and closed, owned and free, and we are systematically likely to get the balance wrong.
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We still do not intuitively grasp the kind of property that cannot be exhausted by overuse (think of a piece of software) and that can become more valuable to us the more it is used by others (think of a communications standard).
- Nils Peterson on 16 Jul 09
  
  key phrase: property that can become more valuable the more it is used.
  
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Nils Peterson on 16 Jul 09

This was an MRG 7/15/09 what struck me was the idea of understanding property that becomes more valuable with wider use.

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Feedity Plans - RSS Plans Pricing, Business RSS Services, Corporate RSS Feeds - 0 views

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web_2.0 rss mashup

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10 Web Apps To Build The Next Big Thing Without Writing Any Code - 0 views

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web_2.0 webdesign

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 16 Jul 09 - Cached

Joshua Yeidel on 16 Jul 09

Google is not the only way to mashup.

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