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Randolph Hollingsworth

Digital Texts and the Future of Education: Why Books? (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 55 views

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    includes study re intro statistics; problems and promises for mobile content delivery as "information dissemination" of a book vs interactive, collaborative work by students around selected texts
david stong

Competency-Based Education Programs versus Traditional Data Management (EDUCAUSE Review... - 23 views

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    "Competency-based education programs challenge traditional data management approaches across the academic institution because they defy conventional notions of time in relation to fixed-length terms, synchronous delivery, and student-faculty interactions."
Maureen Greenbaum

The future of the classroom - Fortune Tech - 5 views

  • the future of education really hinges on the shifting roles of teacher and student.
  • students will learn at their own pace, using software that adapts to their strengths and weaknesses. In other words: aided by emerging technology, the teacher-student relationship—and the classroom itself—will be remade. That is the coming education revolution.
  • front of a classroom, a teacher would monitor students' progress and assist those who are struggling on an ad-hoc basis.
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  • Gates Foundation has invested just under $9 million in a program administered by education nonprofit EDUCAUSE that will allow 20 schools to figure out a solid, financially sustainable way to achieve personalized learning as part of a program called Next Generation Learning Challenges. All of the schools awarded grants will use some combination of digital and traditional instruction.
  • every move a student makes in a digital course will be tracked and analyzed to not only change a program to meet a student's current needs, but to track a student's progress—and determine their educational needs—not just during a given course, but throughout their lives.
  • "The old model of getting educated in four years and coasting for the next 40 years" is growing increasingly less relevant, says Andrew Ng, co-CEO
Cindy Edwards

Are You Ready for Mobile Learning? (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 35 views

  • Avoid overly complex material that includes lots of facts and figures. Complex subject matter is often more effectively conveyed through handouts and readings than through a podcast.
  • Always keep in mind the learner's context when selecting content for a podcast.
  • Only use lectures as podcasts when you have a strong pedagogical rationale for doing so.
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  • imit the scope of the content to only a few main themes.
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    This article is a good overview of mobile learning and not just ipods and ipads.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Timeline for Planning a Breakthrough Model School | EDUCAUSE.edu - 2 views

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    15 months to plan out a blended, personalized, competency-based learning model in a K-12 school.
Kenneth Sherwood

Chapter 6: Why Openness in Education? | EDUCAUSE - 2 views

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      This is a nice, memorable set of assertions. What opportunities does it provide, or challenges does it present to those working within traditional university structures today?
Matthew Henry

An Open Letter to Students: You're the Game Changer in Next-Generation Learning (EDUCAU... - 120 views

  • I'll be blunt here. It's going to be hard for you to be heard as a credible advocate if you don't first lay down the gauntlet. That happens when you own key educational responsibilities and make the demand that if you fulfill these, you expect your claim to your core educational rights to be taken seriously. Simply put, your doing so could change the conversation completely—to one that is more literally and figuratively constructive
  • Knowing your larger purpose enables you to do what comes next.
  • Engagement means literally transforming the way you think and committing yourself to building those skill-sets you don't currently possess.
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  • you have to be willing to engage at a high level.
  • Our decisions, models, and innovations should be based, first, on learning.
  • learning-centered, data-rich, high-value pathways to your educational goal
  • not using technology
  • the learning-centered progression, one-on-one mentor model ensures that students and faculty engage on learning data early and often and that both regulate learning and navigate to completion
  • We in higher education should do the work to ensure that your learning is tied to the competencies expected in these career paths.
  • because of the rate of change in industry and society, we are probably preparing you for jobs that don't exist yet and life experiences you can't anticipat
Steven Parker

7 Things You Should Know About... Learning Technology Topics | EDUCAUSE.edu - 123 views

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    library list of EDUCAUSE 2 page summaries '7 things you should know about...' extensive range of topics including items such as 3D printing, flipped classrooms, MOOCs etc. 
Ed Webb

Liberal Education Today : 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation - 63 views

  • 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation “7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Annotation” introduces readers to programs like Diigo, SideWiki, and ReFrameit (pdf). A group of liberal arts faculty and staff use Diigo to share their research into computer gaming for teaching and research.
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