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About « OERRH - 19 views

oerresearchhub.org/about research oer oer-initiative openness open-access open-education reference
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  • Thieme Hennis on 11 Jun 13
     
    "The Open Educational Resources Research Hub (OER Research Hub) provides a focus for research, designed to give answers to the overall question 'What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?' and identify the particular influence of openness. We do this by working in collaboration with projects across four education sectors (K12, college, higher education and informal) extending a network of research with shared methods and shared results. By the end of this research we will have evidence for what works and when, but also established methods and instruments for broader engagement in researching the impact of openness on learning. OER are not just another educational innovation. They influence policy and change practices. In previous research (OpenLearn, Bridge to Success and OLnet) we have seen changes in institutions, teacher practice and in the effectiveness of learning. We integrate research alongside action to discover and support changes in broader initiatives. Our framework provides the means to gather data and the tools to tackle barriers. The project combines: A targeted collaboration program with existing OER projects An internationalfellowship program Networking to make connections A hub for research data and OER excellence in practice The collaborations cover different sectors and issues, these include: the opening up of classroom based teaching to open content; the large-scale decision points implied by open textbooks for community colleges; the extension of technology beyond textbook through eBook and simulation; the challenge of teacher training in India; and the ways that OER can support less formal approaches to learning. By basing good practice on practical experience and research we can help tackle practical problems whilst building the evidence bank needed by all."
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New college application questions encourage creative thinking - latimes.com - 40 views

www.latimes.com/...essays-20121219,0,204684.story college application
shared by Enid Baines on 20 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • "So where is Waldo, really?"
  • It is the kind of mind-stretching, offbeat or downright freaky essay question that is becoming more common these days as colleges and universities seek to pierce the fog of students' traditional self-aggrandizing essays detailing their accomplishments and hardships.
  • s Angeles, tackled another Chicago question. It poses physicist Werner Heisenberg's claim that "you c
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» The Power of Conversation Upside Down Education - 49 views

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      anonymous on 13 Feb 13
       
      Isn't this what we want students to do?  Don't we want them to think?  Don't we want them to help one another understand concepts?  Don't we want those concepts to stick with them long after they leave our classroom?
  • When not in sessions, conversations didn’t end.
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      anonymous on 13 Feb 13
       
      Isn't it wonderful when that happens outside our classrooms?  :)
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  • Sometimes as teachers we forget this. We get caught up in curriculum, information, delivering it, that we don’t stop and allow kids to just talk about it. We don’t give them time to state opinion. I’m really bad about pushing for class discussion instead of small group discussions. I know I wouldn’t have spoken out as much to the group as a whole as I did in smaller groups.
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      anonymous on 13 Feb 13
       
      Doesn't this follow the concept of the college professor who is teaching college students in a new way?  Rethinking the Way College Students Are Taught: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/tomorrows-college/lectures/rethinking-teaching.html 
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Learning Never Stops: Learners TV - Free Online Education - 1 views

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  • Michael Sheehan on 07 Feb 13
     
    Useful site for college students. Over 29,000 free lectures, videos, animations, and other resources to help college level students.
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Book Chat: Why Does College Cost So Much? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      yeah but then what? you still aren't dealing with the economic motivation for attending college, and the fact that it may not pan out for disadvantaged students. i.e. they get the 4.0 and degree, and still don't have the networks or corporate savvy to get a good job. 
  • Georgia HOPE scholarship has increased college attendance in Georgia
  • erit-based price discounts only help determine which school a student attends.
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  • Everyone has three objectives for higher education: lower tuition, higher quality, and less government spending on subsidies. The unfortunate truth is that we can have any two of these, but we can’t have all three. If we mandate low tuition, we have to give on one of the other two. Either the government has to increase spending on subsidies, or the quality of the education schools will be able to provide will suffer. There are no easy choices
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How to Save College | The Awl - 23 views

www.theawl.com/...how-to-save-college MOOCs HigherEd education change
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  • alexis alexander on 07 Jul 13
     
    "I wrote a thing last fall about massive open online courses (MOOCs, in the parlance), and the challenge that free or cheap online classes pose to business as usual in higher ed. In that piece, I compared the people running colleges today to music industry executives in the age of Napster. (This was not a flattering comparison.) Aaron Bady, a cultural critic and doctoral candidate at Berkeley, objected. I replied to Bady, one thing led to another, the slippery slope was slupped, and Maria Bustillos ended up refereeing the whole thing here on The Awl."
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A warning to college profs from a high school teacher - 92 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...ofs-from-a-high-school-teacher teachertraining education testing NCLB
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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Jul 13
     
    "You are a college professor. I have just retired as a high school teacher. I have some bad news for you. In case you do not already see what is happening, I want to warn you of what to expect from the students who will be arriving in your classroom, even if you teach in a highly selective institution."
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Traditional colleges aim to boost LMS usage | Inside Higher Ed - 3 views

www.insidehighered.com/...l-colleges-aim-boost-lms-usage Moodle LMS datacollection datamining eLearning
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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 02 Apr 12
     
    "Less than two decades since professors and students traded exclusively in oral discussion and printed documents, online learning environments have become ubiquitous. More than 90 percent of all colleges and universities -- small and large, public and private -- have invested in an institutionwide LMS.."
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ipl2: Information You Can Trust - 0 views

www.ipl.org Media_Resources Teacher_Resources Online_Learning_Environments Science Language_Arts Social_Studies
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  • Marc Patton on 29 Jun 12
     
    ipl2 is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology, with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University
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2011 College Completion Data | Complete College America - 4 views

www.completecollege.org/state_data college readiness graduation rates college data completion higher education
shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 11 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 11 Jan 12
     
    Includes state profiles from 33 states - includes a 20 page summary, tables, separate profiles for each state and full report; uses the following metrics: total degrees and certificates, graduation rates for certificate/assoc/bacc, time to degree, credits to degree, remediation enrollment, remediation graduation, transfers
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Parchment | Parchment Inc. - 5 views

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  • Michael Foster on 24 Jan 12
     
    Check your chances of getting into the colleges you're interested in via parchment.com.
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Freakonomics » What Should Be Done About Standardized Tests? A Freakonomics Q... - 42 views

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  • Gaston Caperton
  • Standardized tests have much in common with French fries. Both of them differ in composition as well as quality. French fries are available in numerous incarnations, including straight, curly, skins-on, skins-off, and, in recent years, with sweet potatoes. Regarding quality, of course, the taste of French fries can range substantially – from sublime to soggy. It’s really the same with standardized tests.
  • Take the No Child Left Behind Act, for instance, a federal accountability law requiring scads of standardized tests to be used in evaluating schools. Do you know that almost all of the standardized tests now being employed to judge school quality are unable to distinguish between well taught and badly taught students?
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  • all schools – kindergarten through college – should employ exit exams allowing us to determine what students have actually learned. We owe it to our students to make sure that they’ve been properly taught.
  • Then there are the questions of what to do with the results. I have actually sat through an extended discussion of how we could use regression analysis to parse out the contribution different teachers made to a group of students’ performance on a set of standardized tests. The answer was, yes it was possible, and could in fact be used to award merit pay increases. But nobody left the room feeling very comfortable that there would be any gain in what we knew made for good teaching.
  • Roughly half of the nation’s students are taking tests under NCLB that are completely free of open-ended questions.
  • educators have a strong incentive to “teach to the test.” In this case, that means teaching low level skills at the expense of the more demanding material that everyone says students need to master in today’s complicated world.
  • But is it fair to give students what amounts to a counterfeit passport to college or work? And do such tests spur high school teachers and principals to aim high with their students? To both questions, the answer is, “No.” In most states today, high school exit tests serve the same role as the standardized tests mandated by NCLB: they try to jack up the floor of student achievement in the nation’s schools. The best high school exit tests would be end-of-course exams akin to the “comprehensive” exams that many colleges and universities require students to pass in their majors before graduation – tests, that is, that would raise the ceiling of student achievement.
  • High-stakes testing has narrowed and dumbed down curricula; eliminated time spent on untested subjects like social studies, art, and even recess; turned classrooms into little more than test preparation centers; reduced high school graduation rates; and driven good teachers from the profession. Those are all reasons why FairTest and other experts advocate a sharp reduction in public school standardized testing and a halt to exit exams.
  • igh school grade
  • point average is a better predictor of college success than either the SAT or the ACT.
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Back-to-College Special: Academic Contributions Aren't Just Cerebral - OpenSecrets Blog - 6 views

www.opensecrets.org/...tions-arent-just-cerebral.html academic campaign finance PAC campaign finance
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  • smilex3md on 30 Aug 13
     
    Back-to-College Special: Academic Contributions Aren't Just Cerebral
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Improving Students' College Math Readiness: A Review of the Evidence - 37 views

educationnorthwest.org/...1446 college readiness mathematics bridge programs dual credit programs remediation developmental education
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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 24 Feb 14
     
    by Michell Hodara, October 2013 (Education Northwest, part of an initiative out of the Community College Research Center)
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U. S. Electoral College, Official - What is the Electoral College? - 32 views

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      richweitkamp on 25 Jul 13
       
      What do you think "qualified citizens" means?
  • The Electoral College consists of 538 electors. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President.
  • you are actually voting for your candidate’s electors.
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      richweitkamp on 25 Jul 13
       
      Why might some think that this is unfair?
  • if any
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Navigating Text Complexity - 80 views

www.ccsso.org/avigating_Text_Complexity.html text complexity text complexity CCSS Common Core ELA reading literacy
shared by Jeremy Brueck on 12 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Includes lesson videos and model text-dependent questions.
  • Our text complexity roadmaps bring together the quantiative, qualitative, and reader and task considerations of texts.
  • take a close look at what text complexity is and why it's important to preparing students for college and career.
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  • what makes a text complex
  • how will it help prepare my students for college and career?
  • What tools can I use to select rich, worthy texts for instruction in my classroom?
  • How can analyzing the qualitative characteristics of a text inform my instruction of a text?
  • Jeremy Brueck on 12 Sep 13
     
    "Understanding text complexity is essential to implementing the Common Core State Standards in ELA & Literacy. But what makes a text complex and how will it help prepare my students for college and career? What tools can I use to select rich, worthy texts for instruction in my classroom? How can analyzing the qualitative characteristics of a text inform my instruction of a text? These have been our guiding questions in developing this text complexity resource for teachers. "
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Pairing Music and Linguistic Intelligences by Maryann DiEdwardo - 1 views

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  • maryann diedwardo on 27 Sep 13
     
    Music Transforms the College English Classroom by Maryann DiEdwardo is based on her case study research.
  • maryann diedwardo on 27 Sep 13
     
    Music Transforms the College English Classroom by Maryann DiEdwardo is based on her case study research.
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Colleges Can Still Save Themselves. Here's How. - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 37 views

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  • disruption that technology has inflicted on the retail sector over the past decade is often used to illustrate what is about to happen in higher education.
  • institutions rarely introduce the sometimes radical changes they need to make, because one group of constituents believes the sky will fall tomorrow anyway, while others refuse to acknowledge that this time is different.
  • question is whether institutions will quicken their pace of change to lower their costs and better serve the changing educational needs of students and the global economy.
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  • moving away from a one-size-fits-all system, in which students largely follow the same calendar and curriculum on their way to collecting 120 credits for a bachelor's degree
  • More of the decisions colleges make about their direction must be rooted in data.
  • Now the data exist to track students, the classes they took, how they performed, and their outcomes after graduation—all of which can inform decisions.
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Calls from Washington for streamlined regulation and emerging models | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...regulation-and-emerging-models higher ed higher regulation competency based innovation accreditation
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  • more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
  • reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
  • flow of federal financial aid to a wide range of course providers, some of which look nothing like colleges.
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  • give state regulators a new option to either act as accreditors or create their own accreditation systems.
  • “States could accredit online courses, or hybrid models with elements on- and off-campus.”
  • any new money for those emerging models would likely come out of the coffers of traditional colleges.
  • cut back on red tape that prevents colleges from experimenting with ways to cut prices and boost student learning.
  • decentralized, more streamlined form of accreditation.
  • regional accreditors are doing a fairly good job. They are under enormous pressure to keep “bad actors” at bay while also encouraging experimentation. And he said accreditors usually get it right.
  • Andrew Kelly, however, likes Lee’s idea. Kelly, who is director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Higher Education Reform, said it would create a credible alternative to the existing accreditation system, which the bill would leave intact.
  • eliminating bureaucracy in higher education regulation is a top priority
  • “Accreditation could also be available to specialized programs, individual courses, apprenticeships, professional credentialing and even competency-based tests,”
  • “The gateway to education reform is education oversight reform,”
  • broad, bipartisan agreement that federal aid policies have not kept pace with new approaches to higher education.
  • expansion of competency-based education. And he said the federal rules governing financial aid make it hard for colleges to go big with those programs.
  • accreditors is that they favor the status quo, in part because they are membership organizations of academics that essentially practice self-regulation.
  • “The technology has reached the point where it really can improve learning,” he said, adding that “it can lower the costs.”
  • changes to the existing accreditation system that might make it easier for competency-based and other emerging forms of online education to spread.
  • offering competency-based degrees through a process called direct assessment, which is completely de-coupled from the credit-hour standard.
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