An examination of the educational records of more than 62,000 adult undergraduates at 48 colleges finds that students who had sought and been awarded academic credit by their institutions for "prior learning" earned in the military, corporate training and other non-classroom settings were more than twice as likely to graduate, and to persist even if they did not graduate, than were their peers who had not earned such credit.
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Developing an Effective Teaching Portfolio - On Hiring - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views
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A job seeker stops looking at requests for "evidence of teaching effectiveness" as a hurdle and learns to make the most of them.
Social networking sites and our lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life ... - 53 views
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Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites in a survey that explored people's overall social networks and how use of these technologies is related to trust, tolerance, social support, and community and political engagement. The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people's social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people's varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class.
National Jukebox LOC.gov - 74 views
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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
21st-Century Campus Report: Campus 2.0 - 14 views
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Now in its third year, the CDW-G 21st-Century Campus Report examines the role of technology in higher education. CDW-G surveyed more than 1,000 college students, faculty and IT staff to understand their perceptions of campus technology.
News: 'The Great Brain Race' - Inside Higher Ed - 27 views
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Author discusses new book, in which he argues that the advances in higher education all over the world shouldn't be feared by the United States.
Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg - 57 views
News: The 'Prior Learning' Edge - Inside Higher Ed - 15 views
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“CAEL’s research confirms that prior-learning assessment can help adults move faster toward their associate’s and baccalaureate degrees. We need to see more institutions offering this option and more adults participating in it.”
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The concept of "prior learning assessment" is decades old, and it has grown to include multiple types of mechanisms for measuring knowledge and skills that students have accumulated through various types of formal and less formal formats, such corporate training, work experience, and independent study. The most common types of assessments include standardized exams developed by the College Board (the College Level Examination Program exams and Advanced Placement exams), the American Council of Education's guides for recognizing credit for instructional programs offered in the military and by employers, and institutional reviews of individualized student portfolios.
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Rich Robles
I currently work at the University of Cincinnati Honors Program as the Assistant Director for First-Year Experience and Leadership programs. I'm also a PhD student at Miami University in the Student Affairs and Higher Education program.