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Nils Peterson

Education Department Proposes To End Federal Funding To For-Profit Colleges Whose Stude... - 2 views

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assessment stakeholder financial aid higher_education accountability

shared by Nils Peterson on 24 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The Education Department proposed much-anticipated regulations Friday that would cut off federal aid to for-profit college programs if too many of their students default on loans or don't earn enough after graduation to repay them.
  • To qualify for federal student aid programs, career college programs must prepare students for "gainful employment."
  • But shares were mixed among companies such as ITT Educational Services Inc., Corinthian Colleges Inc., Education Management Corp. and Career Education Corp. Those companies operate career colleges focusing more on two-year programs or lower-income students and may need to make big changes
Nils Peterson

EVOKE -- When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion | A World Bank Blog on ICT use ... - 2 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 21 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Question 4 – What happens when you bring 10,000 players together in an open innovation platform? A lot!  There have been many highlights these past 14 days and below are some of the more outstanding unexpected outcomes of how the game has taken on a life of its own
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 21 Jul 10
       
      So the game context mediated some peer-to-peer learning around authentic problems
Joshua Yeidel

Wave Bots - The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave - 2 views

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google_wave

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 12 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 12 Mar 10
     
    "Wave doesn't offer a built-in way to export the content of a wave to a file, but the PDF Wave Exporter is a start."
Joshua Yeidel

Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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higher_education Google Wave

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Jan 10
     
    "If you're wondering what use Google's new Wave tool might have for teaching, one online-learning leader has an answer: combining classes from different colleges."
Gary Brown

Best Colleges: The Real Rankings - CBS MoneyWatch.com - 2 views

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ranking colleges PLE

shared by Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ultimately, though, the usefulness of any college ranking will depend on what criteria matters most to you and your teen. The best strategy: Use a few of the rankings to amass quantifiable and
  • Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09
     
    key advice for prospective college students--and a way to think about providing models that engage authentic learning opportunities as critical benchmark.
  • Gary Brown on 28 Sep 09
     
    key advice for prospective college students--and a way to think about providing models that engage authentic learning opportunities as critical benchmark.
Theron DesRosier

Searching for India's Hole in the Wall | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education - 2 views

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shared by Theron DesRosier on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Theron DesRosier on 20 Jul 10
     
    "The contrast here was for me pretty stark: One the one hand, you had two computers set up outside which received minimal maintenance, and which anyone could use from 9-5 each day. There was no direction on how to use this equipment, but that didn't stop kids from figuring it out via trial and error (or, more often, from other kids). On the other hand, you had a dozen computers locked up in a school just a short walk away, gathering dust for lack of 'qualified teachers' to use them, and direct their use."
Joshua Yeidel

Google Embraces Partners to Straddle Desktop-Cloud Divide - PC World Business Center - 2 views

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google cloud

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 12 Jan 10
     
    "Google has unveiled plans today to allow Google Docs to store any type of files, and revealed a new tool from Memeo to enable users to access, migrate, and synchronize files between their desktop and Google Docs. " (Snc tool is for Google Apps Premium only). Getting to be a more attractive option...
  • Matthew Tedder on 13 Jan 10
     
    Yes.. That is something I'd really like to use. My laptop warranty is out, they won't sell me any more extensions, one hard disk is loosing more and more sectors (and Maylee pulled off the right ALT key last night). Now only if Google Mail enabled me to build a number of views (filters) of my email (not just one), and Docs had inline revision viewing, I'd be ready to use it more. As it is, I use a variety of office apps because each seems to have strengths in different areas. I sometimes even move between apps with the same document. Mostly, I use OpenOffice, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, and LyX. LyX is the most philosophically advanced, I think.... but none escape the subjectivity of the matter. LyX removes any concern for how the document looks. You tell it what each information element is, not how it should look. Then you export to various formats and styles. Information search is vastly more powerful when all information elements are tagged according to what they are. And it produces just very beautiful content. OpenOffice has the broadest set of import/export capabilities and also with the best quality results, I'd say. All tables in all document types being accessible as database tables is also sometimes useful, as well as a variety of other capabilities. Google Docs is obviously best at collaboration but I find it sometimes frustrating to get formatting I want or working with revisions from others and myself. Microsoft Office is pretty high quality and full featured, as most realize, but lacks in import/export quality in comparison with some alternatives.
Nils Peterson

About Powers - Urgent Evoke - 2 views

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evoke 21 century skills global competencies

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  • Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10
     
    10 skills and abilities that will help you tackle the world's toughest problems
  • Nils Peterson on 19 Mar 10
     
    Evoke skills, collaboration, courgage, creativity, entrepreneurship, local insight, knowledge share, resourcefulness, spark, sustainability, vision.
Nils Peterson

Open Access or Close It? Two Views | HASTAC - 2 views

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shared by Nils Peterson on 25 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Now here is the irony:   this morning, in the wake of the Publisher's Weekly article, I really wanted to be able to give all of my HASTAC readers a url so they could go right to my article.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 25 Jun 10
       
      so, her disciplinary and departmental affiliation rewards her for publishing in a closed community rather than for working in a world community and then when she wants to engage a world community she can't
  • My larger point?  We are in a confusing and damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't moment for publishing.  Scholarly publishing loses money.  Scholars who do not publish (at present) lose careers.  How do we balance these complex and intertwined issues in a sane way?  That is our question.
    • Nils Peterson
      Nils Peterson on 25 Jun 10
       
      publishing reputation is a surrogate for reputation in community
Lorena O'English

Saving the Google students - latimes.com - 2 views

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infolit

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  • Lorena O'English on 22 Mar 10
     
    This is an excellent overview of the need for info literacy instructiohn, written by a (pink-slipped) high school librarian...
Gary Brown

Quick Takes: May 13, 2010 - Inside Higher Ed - 2 views

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accreditation

shared by Gary Brown on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • A proposed change in the Council for Higher Education Accreditation's policies for recognizing accrediting agencies is drawing criticism from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Under the proposed change, which is part of a larger revision of the council's procedures for reviewing the work of accreditors, would require agencies to show that they "inform the public of decisions on [individual colleges' or programs'] accreditation status and the reasons for these decisions."
  • CHEA language is ambiguous about the purpose of the new requirement." CHEA is seeking comment on the new standards.
  • Gary Brown on 07 Jun 10
     
    changing pressures influencing changes in accreditation, and a link to weigh in....
Joshua Yeidel

ILT - Jan 2010 issue - 2 views

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web2.0 social networking social learning elgg

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 16 Apr 10
     
    Jane Hart describes five kinds of learning that social learning environments "have to support", describes Elgg as a platform for social learning, and lists some success factors based on her consulting for (no surprise) Elgg-using organizations.
Gary Brown

SAGE Journals Online - 2 views

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evaluation

shared by Gary Brown on 23 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Gary Brown on 23 Sep 10
     
     SAGE Journals Online for the next 3 weeks.
Theron DesRosier

Disaggregate power not people - Part two: now with more manifesto @ Dave's Educational ... - 2 views

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cormier Personal learning environments social networking

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  • Theron DesRosier on 12 Oct 10
     
    "Definition 2 - disaggregating power There is a very different power relationship between being given a space which 'enables contexts' and 'allows supports' for a user and a space that you build and support for yourself. It dodges those institutionally created problems of student mobility, of losing the connections formed in your learning and gives you a professional 'place' from which you can start to make long term knowledge network connections that form the higher end of the productive learning/knowing that is possible on the web. The power is disaggregated in the sense that while attending an institution of learning you are still under the dominance of the instructor or the regulations surrounding accreditation, but coming to your learning space is not about that dominance. The power held (and, i should probably add, that you've given to that institution in applying for accreditation/learning it's not (necessarily) a power of tyranny) by the institution only touches some of your work, and it need not impede any work you choose to do. Here's where I get to the part about the 'personal' that's been bothering me The danger in taking definition two as our definition for PLE is that we lose sight of the subtle, complex dance of person and ecology so eloquently described by Keith Hamon in his response to my post. Maybe more dangerously, we might get taken up as thinking that learning is something that happens to the person, and not as part of a complex rhizome of connections that form the basis of the human experience. Learning (and I don't mean definitions or background) and the making of connections of knowledge is something that is steeped in complexity. At each point we are structured in the work (written in a book, sung in a song, spoken in a web session) of others that constantly tests our own connections and further complexifies our understanding. This is the pattern of knowledge as i understand it. It is organic, and messy, and su
Joshua Yeidel

Skim | Home - 2 views

skim-app.sourceforge.net

pdf software mac opensource freeware

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  • Joshua Yeidel on 11 Nov 09
     
    "Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Stop printing and start skimming."
Gary Brown

Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College? - Innovations - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 2 views

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future of education costs

shared by Gary Brown on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Over 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees (over 8,000 of them have doctoral or professional degrees), along with over 80,000 bartenders, and over 18,000 parking lot attendants.  All told, some 17,000,000 Americans with college degrees are doing jobs that the BLS says require less than the skill levels associated with a bachelor’s degree.
  • I have long been a proponent of Charles Murray’s thesis that an increasing number of persons attending college do not have the cognitive abilities or other attributes usually necessary for success at higher levels of learning. 
  • As more and more try to attend colleges, either college degrees will be watered down (something already happening I suspect) or drop-out rates will rise.  
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  • The relentless claims of the Obama administration and others that having more college graduates is necessary for continued economic leadership is incompatible with this view
  • Putting issues of student abilities aside, the growing disconnect between labor market realities and the propaganda of higher education apologists is causing more and more persons to graduate and take menial jobs or no job at all. This is even true at the doctoral and professional level –there are 5,057 janitors in the U.S. with Ph.Ds, other doctorates, or professional degrees.
  • “Estimating Marginal Returns in Education,”
  • In other words, even if on average, an investment in higher education yields a good, say 10 percent, rate of return, it does not follow that adding to existing investments will yield that return, partly for reasons outlined above.
  • should we be subsidizing increasingly problematic educational programs for students whose prior academic record would suggest little likelihood of academic much less vocational success?
  • I think the American people understand, albeit dimly, the logic above.
  • Higher education is on the brink of big change, like it or not.
  • Gary Brown on 21 Oct 10
     
    The tone is not the same as Berliner's, but the numbers suggest WSU's and others goals merit a second look.
Gary Brown

Graphic Display of Student Learning Objectives - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 2 views

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outcomes graphics

shared by Gary Brown on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Creating SLOs or goals for a course is simple to us, usually.  We want students to learn certain skills, we create assignments that will help students reach those goals, and we’ll judge how well they have learned those skills. 
  • This graphic displays the three learning objectives for the course, and it connects the course assignment to the learning objectives.  Students can see—at a glance—that work none of course assignments are random or arbitrary (an occasional student complaint), but that each assignment links directly to a course learning objective.
  • The syllabus graphic is quite simple and it’s one that students easily understand.  Additionally, I use an expanded graphic (below) when thinking about small goals within the larger learning objectives.
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  • In fact, The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course (Linda Nilson) is an interesting way to organize graphically an entire course.
  • An example of a graphic syllabus can be found in Dr. W. Mark Smillie’s displays of his philosophy courses [.pdf file].
  • Some students won’t care.  Moreover, they rarely remember the connection between course content and assignments.  The course and the assignments can all seem random and arbitrary.  Nevertheless, some students will care, and some will appreciate the connections.
  • Gary Brown on 20 Oct 10
     
    Perhaps useful resource
Gary Brown

What students Want from Moodle is not always what Teachers build @sukhwantlot... - 2 views

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lms moodle

shared by Gary Brown on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The comic is a quick over view of what students generally want from any web-based resources (perhaps especially a course resource like Moodle) and what teachers provide more often than not.
  • Gary Brown on 20 Sep 10
     
    No surprise, but just to share and archive
Joshua Yeidel

Systems Week: Glenda Eoyang on Complexity Demands Simplicity | AEA365 - 2 views

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Assessment

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 18 Oct 10
     
    "Complex systems tend to exist in one of three states. Each state needs a different evaluation design."
Joshua Yeidel

Start-Up Aspires to Make the World 'One Big Study Group' - Wired Campus - The Chronicle... - 2 views

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higher_education learning web_2.0

shared by Joshua Yeidel on 13 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Joshua Yeidel on 13 Sep 10
     
    A more modest attempt to "open up" education, using a study-group model rather than a course model like P2PU.
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