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Michael Comins

How Important Is Wi-Fi to a College Education? [#Infographic] | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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    How Important Is Wi-Fi to a College Education? [#Infographic]
Michael Comins

12 Trends Transforming the Post-Sec Landscape - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - Highe... - 0 views

  • 1.Rapid growth in for-profit post-secondary
  • 2.Expanded online learning offerings
  • 3.Massively open online courses (MOOC)
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  • 4.The rise of very low cost DIY
  • 5.Rapid growth of informal online learning markets
  • 6.Expanding open education resources (OER)
  • 7.Rapid growth in blended learning
  • 8.Innovations in adaptive learning
  • 9.High rates of unemployment
  • 10.Alternative market signaling strategies
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  • unbundling of post-secondary services.
  • 12.Wired students armed with mobile devices
Michael Comins

'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 0 views

  • “It’s almost like they want to find the content by themselves,”
  • Ms. Morgan borrows the phrase “free-range learning” to describe students’ behavior, and she finds that they generally shop around for content in places educators would endorse. Students seem most favorably inclined to materials from other universities.
  • They “don’t want to ask librarians or tutors in the study center or stuff like that,” she says. “It’s more the informal networks that they’re using.”
Michael Comins

How Technology Is Changing Traditional Learning Methods | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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    How Technology Is Changing Traditional Learning Methods
Michael Comins

Passwords, Security and the Future of Authentication [#Infographic] | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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    Passwords, Security and the Future of Authentication [#Infographic]
Michael Comins

Mobile Computing Just Became the Third Digital Revolution of the Last Decade [#Infograp... - 0 views

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    Mobile Computing Just Became the Third Digital Revolution of the Last Decade [#Infographic]
Michael Comins

What Is the Future of Libraries on College Campuses? [#Infographic] | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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    What Is the Future of Libraries on College Campuses? [#Infographic]
Michael Comins

New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into 'Flipped' Lessons - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views

  • by organizing educational videos and letting professors “flip” them to enhance their lectures.
Michael Comins

Study Renews Call to Slow Growth of K12 Inc. Virtual Schools - Digital Education - Educ... - 0 views

  • Among the key conclusions of that analysis is that students in virtual schools run by K12 are performing worse academically and dropping out of courses at much higher rates than their brick-and-mortar counterparts.
  • Such recommendations have been supported by some virtual school advocates, including a structure where funding is based on course completions and not course enrollments, such as the Florida Virtual School's funding model.
Michael Comins

Tablet Ownership Triples Among College Students - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

  • The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their tablet ownership.
  • One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year’s survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.
Michael Comins

Ditching a Textbook: An Update - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • the experiment was a great success. Students did indeed develop some skill in finding and using sources, and they put great effort into learning about their chosen topics. They also did a wonderful job of running class discussions focused around those topics.
Michael Comins

Ditching a Textbook: An Update - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • I started off by selecting a few myself (e.g., technology and privacy, technology and civic discourse, immigration), and showing students the kinds of resources they might be able to find. Then, for the latter part of the course, they chose the issues, found sources, and shared them in the class Zotero library. Working in teams or as individuals (depending on which section they were in), they were then responsible for running a class session and assigning readings for that session.
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