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Sharin Tebo

Brainteasers and College Readiness | Edutopia - 62 views

www.edutopia.org/...-college-readiness-ben-johnson

shared by Sharin Tebo on 04 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • If I went to school and halfway listened, I got decent grades just because I could remember what I saw and heard.
    • Sharin Tebo
      Sharin Tebo on 04 Mar 15
       
      This was/still partially is ME!
Maureen Greenbaum

Are College Lectures Unfair? - NYTimes.com - 47 views

mobile.nytimes.com/...e-college-lectures-unfair.html

college lectures teachng learning

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 17 Sep 15 - No Cached
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  • Research comparing the two methods has consistently found that students over all perform better in active-learning courses than in traditional lecture courses. However, women, minorities, and low-income and first-generation students benefit more, on average, than white males from more affluent, educated families.
  • research has demonstrated that we learn new material by anchoring it to knowledge we already possess
  • low-stakes quiz at the start of each meeting of their introductory psychology course. Compared with students who took the same course in a more traditional format, the quizzed students attended class more often and achieved higher test scores; the intervention also reduced by 50 percent the achievement gap between more affluent and less affluent students.
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  • act of putting one’s own thoughts into words and communicating them to others, research has shown, is a powerful contributor to learning. Active-learning courses regularly provide opportunities for students to talk and debate with one another in a collaborative, low-pressure environment.
Peter Linehan

College Inc. - Study: highly-rated professors are. . . overrated - 39 views

voices.washingtonpost.com/..._high-rated_professors_ar.html

college teaching

shared by Peter Linehan on 12 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Peter Linehan on 12 Jun 10
     
    Those end of semester ratings may not mean what you think.
Peter Linehan

To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery - NYTimes.com - 21 views

www.nytimes.com/...06cheat.html

education highereducation

shared by Peter Linehan on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Peter Linehan on 06 Jul 10
     
    The article describes the high technology war on cheating in colleges. I wonder if it really is working. Wouldn't it be better to restructure courses to make cheating less profitable?
anonymous

Podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges - 0 views

www.recap.ltd.uk/...index.php

podcast education

shared by anonymous on 28 Feb 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 28 Feb 09
     
    Welcome to educational podcasting with the first UK directory to list podcasts for educational use - used by teachers, parents and carers with children and young people at school, college and elsewhere.
Tony Baldasaro

Colby College | Colby Magazine | Summer 2009 - 0 views

www.colby.edu/...articles.php

colby online_learning teaching education

shared by Tony Baldasaro on 24 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Tony Baldasaro on 24 Jul 09
     
    Professor Cal MacKenzie writes about the potential power of computer-based learning at Colby College.
UN English Programme

Capitol Community College - 0 views

www.ccc.commnet.edu/...vocabulary.htm

english vocabulary

shared by UN English Programme on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • UN English Programme on 20 May 09
     
    Tips for vocabulary building, activities and quizzes from Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Dimitris Tzouris

Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views

chronicle.com/...20888

chronicle news apple ipad technology education

shared by Dimitris Tzouris on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • So it's worth taking a careful look at whether the company will once again create a new category of device that make waves in education -- as it did with personal computers, digital music players, and smartphones -- or whether the iPad and other tabletss might be doomed to remain a niche offering.
  • Mr. Jobs did mention iTunesU twice when listing the kinds of content that could be viewed on the iPad, referring to the company's partnership with many colleges to offer them free space for multimedia content like lecture recordings. But he otherwise focused on consumer uses -- watching movies, viewing photos, sending e-mail messages, and reading novels published by five trade publishers mentioned at the event. That does not mean that the company won't later promote the iPad's use on campuses, though, since it waited until after iPods and iPhones were established before beginning to work more heavily with colleges to promote those in education.
  • the biggest impact of the iPad would be in the textbook market.
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  • only 2 percent of students said they bought an e-textbook this past fall semester.
  • The City University of New York, for instance, is looking closely at encouraging e-textbooks as part of an effort to lower student costs. "At end of the day, it's how do you drive savings for our students, who are feeling a great economic impact," said Brian Cohen, CUNY's chief information officer.
  • If students do buy them and begin to carry them around campus, they could be a more powerful educational tool than laptop computers.
  • Jim Groom, an instructional technologist at the University of Mary Washington, expressed weariness with all the hype around the Apple announcement. He said he is concerned about Apple's policies of requiring all applications to be approved by the company before being allowed in its store, just as it does with the iPhone. And he said that Apple's strategy is to make the Web more commercial, rather than an open frontier. "It offers a real threat to the Web," he said.
  • He also pointed out that several PC manufacturers have sold tablet computers before, which have been tried enthusiastically in classrooms. Their promise is that they make it easy for professors to walk around classrooms while holding the computer, while allowing them to wirelessly project information to a screen at the front of the room. But despite initial hype, very few PC tablets are being used in college classrooms, he said. Now that Apple's long-awaited secret is out, the harder questions might be whether the iPad is the long-awaited education computer.
Wayne Holly

Free Social Teaching and Learning Network focused solely on education - 58 views

sophia.org

teaching social learning

shared by Wayne Holly on 17 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook — focused solely on teaching and learning. It’s where you can teach what you know and learn what you don’t. Whether you’re a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it’s free.
  • webExplorations on 17 Jan 11
     
    A new startup social networking site focusing on teaching and learning.
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  • webExplorations on 17 Jan 11
     
    It will be interesting to see how this site develops. I plan to use it to host some learning modules I'm working on.
  • Siri Anderson on 19 Jan 11
     
    Sophia hosts free online learning content in multimedia "packets" tied to MN K-12 standards. A blend of Facebook, Wikipedia, Atomic Learning, and Hippocampus.
  • Wayne Holly on 07 Feb 11
     
    Some people describe Sophia as a mash up of Wikipedia, YouTube, and Facebook - focused solely on teaching and learning. It's where you can teach what you know and learn what you don't. Whether you're a high school student, college student, teacher, professor, tutor or parent, Sophia makes knowledge easier to share, easier to find, and easier to organize. And it's free.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Phase 1 Findings from eReader Project, ePublishing Working Group, Fall 2010, Notre Dame... - 19 views

www.nd.edu/...eDame_iPad_Report_01-06-11.pdf

textbooks ipad ebooks experiment research

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 31 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 31 Jan 11
     
    Use of iPads in MGT30700 (Project Management), Fall 2010 from Aug 23-Oct 8 Report Prepared by Corey M. Angst, Ph.D. & Emily Malinowski (MBA 2011) Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame December 21, 2010 First, our findings suggest the greatest value of the iPad may not be its ability to function as an eBook reader but instead its capacity to function as a consolidator or aggregator of information. Second, a statistically significant proportion of students felt the iPad, 1) makes class more interesting, 2) encourages exploration of additional topics, 3) provides functions/tools not possible with a textbook, and 4) helps students more effectively manage their time. See wiki https://wiki.nd.edu/display/oitepublishing/iPad+Configuration+for+Pilot. It also includes an Enterprise Deployment Guide
Steve Ransom

CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - NYTimes.com - 21 views

www.nytimes.com/...04remedial.html

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  • “The course is really a refresher, but they aren’t ready for a refresher. They need to learn how to learn.”
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Mar 11
       
      Learning how to learn... this is the real problem, isn' it? If K-12 is failing, this is it.
  • The knowledge gap at community colleges is increasingly being recognized as a national problem.
  • “Many, many community college presidents will say that math developmental education is the most difficult problem they’re facing,”
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  • “There’s no question that the more remediation a student needs, the less likely they are ever to graduate.”
  • only about 25 percent of full-time students at the community colleges graduate within six years
  • “I embrace developmental education because it pivots lives,” Dr. Mellow said. “If students get an associate’s degree, they can become nurses, making $85,000 a year. If they don’t make it through that developmental class, they’ll barely make minimum wage.”
  • “For those who make it to the exit line, to see the beam on their faces is really incredible.”
D. S. Koelling

Teaching to the Text Message - NYTimes.com - 50 views

www.nytimes.com/...20selsberg.html

education composition

shared by D. S. Koelling on 21 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • learning how to write concisely, to express one key detail succinctly and eloquently, is an incredibly useful skill, and more in tune with most students’ daily chatter, as well as the world’s conversation.
  • A lot can be said with a little — the mundane and the extraordinary. Philosophers like Confucius (“Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.”) and Nietzsche were kings of the aphorism.
  • I’m not suggesting that colleges eliminate long writing projects from English courses, but maybe we should save them for the second semester. Rewarding concision first will encourage students to be economical and innovative with language.
  • D. S. Koelling on 21 Mar 11
     
    College English prof advocates teaching students to write concisely with text-like assignments.
webExplorations

Disrupting College - 3 views

www.americanprogress.org/...disrupting_college.html

education ctl

shared by webExplorations on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
  • Using online learning in a new business model focused exclusively on teaching and learning, not research—and focused on highly structured programs targeted at preparation for careers—has meanwhile given several organizations a significant cost advantage and allowed them to grow rapidly.
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  • Recommendations for existing institutions of higher education also emerge from an understanding of disruptive innovation. These colleges and universities should: Apply the correct business model for the task. These institutions have conflated value propositions and business models, which creates significant, unsustainable overhead costs. Drive the disruptive innovation. Some institutions have this opportunity, but to do so, they need to set up an autonomous business model unencumbered by their existing processes and priorities. They can leverage their existing fixed resources in this autonomous model to give themselves a cost advantage over what to this point have been the low-cost disruptive innovators. Develop a strategy of focus. The historical strategy of trying to be great at everything and mimic institutions such as Harvard is not a viable strategy going forward. Frame online learning as a sustaining innovation. Institutions can use this new technology to disrupt the existing classroom model to extend convenience to many more students as well as provide a better learning experience.
  • webExplorations on 25 Mar 11
     
    An article showing how online learning is a disruptive technology. Shining [the challenges of today's higher ed] through the lens of these theories on innovation will provide some insights into how we can move forward and a language that allows people to come together to frame these challenges in ways that will create a much higher chance of success. This report assumes that everyone is adept at online learning. This is not the case and students will have to be trained on how to be effective online learners. Courses will also have to address multiple learning styles and not just the read/write that most online courses currently are programmed for. Despite this missing piece, this is a very important article that focuses on some very key issues of our current higher ed system. The recommendations at the end of the article for policy makers are very apt. Highly recommended reading!
  • Jason Finley on 26 Mar 11
     
    Are high schools preparing students for success in college and careers when what we do is so very different from what they will experience when they leave our little boxes?
Randolph Hollingsworth

National Council of La Raza | Early College Project - 4 views

www.nclr.org/...early_college_project

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 11
     
    grew out of developing national network of Latino-serving charter schools; 2002 had 12 Early College High Schools in the US - all schools serve low-income students; seven serve adjudicated/overage students; seven serve over 25% English-language-learner (ELL) students and over 10% special education students. All have open enrollment policies.
Randolph Hollingsworth

EdWorks | KnowledgeWorks (Ohio) - 17 views

knowledgeworks.org/...ohsti

dual credit college

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 11
     
    "Turning Around Ohio's High Schools KnowledgeWorks managed one of the nation's most ambitious high school turnaround efforts with the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative (OHSTI) and the development of Early College High Schools. The effort had a positive impact on more than 50,000 students and trained more than 2,000 teachers in Ohio's most challenging school districts. Specifically, students performed better on state standardized tests, attendance rates rose, and the academic achievement gap between minority and non-minority students began to significantly close."
Randolph Hollingsworth

Texas High School Project - Communities Foundation of Texas - 5 views

www.cftexas.org/...Page.aspx

dual credit college

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 18 Mar 11
     
    Focusing on high-need schools and districts with an emphasis on urban areas and the TX-Mex border; public and private organizations - new models inc Early college high schools, T-STEM academies
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