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Maureen Greenbaum

Colleges Can Still Save Themselves. Here's How. - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 37 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 05 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
smilex3md

Traditional Education Beats Online in Key Areas, Opinion Poll Finds - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 25 views

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shared by smilex3md on 16 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • smilex3md on 16 Oct 13
     
    Gallup Poll on American's views of online courses: Mixed - "online instruction is at least as good as classroom-based courses in terms of providing good value, a format most students can succeed in, and instruction tailored to each individual. But they question the rigor of testing and grading, and whether employees will view such degrees positively..."
H DeWaard

The Pedagogy Project | HASTAC - 45 views

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shared by H DeWaard on 29 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • H DeWaard on 29 Jan 15
     
    shaking up the syllabus, projects and assessments to change how courses are designed and delivered in higher ed
Dallas McPheeters

ACRL | Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education - 34 views

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shared by Dallas McPheeters on 16 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information." 1
    • Dallas McPheeters
      Dallas McPheeters on 16 Jul 10
       
      Information Literacy defined along with standards for higher ed students as well as teachers and librarians.
  • An information literate individual is able to: Determine the extent of information needed Access the needed information effectively and efficiently Evaluate information and its sources critically Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally
    • Dallas McPheeters
      Dallas McPheeters on 16 Jul 10
       
      Higher ed information literacy standards summarized.
LuAnne Holder

Academic Freedom vs. Mandated Course Content - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 41 views

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shared by LuAnne Holder on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • LuAnne Holder on 19 Nov 10
     
    An article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed that discusses the tension between course consistency among multiple sections of the same course and academic freedom for instructors to design their courses as they see fit.
Ed Webb

Dawn of the cyberstudent | University challenge | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09 - Cached
  • students often have more experience of using new technologies than many university managers — even if they need guidance in using them effectively
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      And there's the rub. Students can often read, too, in the basic sense. But our job as higher educators is to get them to really read, to read critically and do something with that reading. So, too, with the affordances of web2.0.
  • the research process is likely to become much more open
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      We can hope
  • a balance that suits them, which may lead to more varying degrees of face-to-face and online contact,
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  • "If you are in Second Life listening to a lecture, your ability to fly through a bush isn't that relevant,
  • All this will put added pressure on university staff, with increasing demands to respond to students 24/7. Read suggests one answer could be for universities in different parts of the world to share the load so that, as often happens already in industry "the work moves around with the sun".
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
       
      Interesting concept. Dickinson and other internationally-connected institutions would be in good shape to innovate here.
  • learning culture
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    Guardian on how higher ed will have to adapt. Not sure the revolution is here quite yet.
  • Ed Webb on 27 Jan 09
     
    "Cyberstudent" is a hideous term.
Maggie Verster

Bounds of Democracy :: Epistemological Access in Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Maggie Verster on 28 Aug 09
     
    Bounds of Democracy: Epistemological Access in Higher Education
Michele Brown

IBM Launches Academic Cloud -- Campus Technology - 33 views

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  • Michele Brown on 21 Feb 10
     
    IBM will be opening up its software portfolio online to academia to enable faculty to incorporate technology into their curricula. The cloud allows people in higher education to use IBM software at no charge without having to install and maintain it on their respective university's computers.
Rich Robles

News: 'The Great Brain Race' - Inside Higher Ed - 27 views

www.insidehighered.com/...wildavsky

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  • Rich Robles on 05 Apr 10
     
    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.
Chris Betcher

New South Wales Teacher Education Council :: Home - 14 views

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shared by Chris Betcher on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Betcher on 05 Jan 11
     
    The New South Wales Teacher Education Council is the association of the deans of education and heads of schools of education in universities and other higher education institutions in New South Wales. It was established to promote the continued development of teacher education and meets regularly to further its goals and discuss issues of common interest.
D. S. Koelling

Shared Governance Is a Myth - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 14 views

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shared by D. S. Koelling on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • It takes years of rank and the bitter­sweet experience of extensive committee service to realize that faculty influence on the operation of the university is an illusion, and that shared governance is a myth.
  • Committees report to administrative officers who are at liberty to accept, reject, or substantially alter faculty recommendations.
  • One would think that faculty senates exercise jurisdiction over a range of college life and policy. In reality, the right of many senates does not extend beyond making recommendations to the president, who is under no obligation to accept them.
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  • A more probable source of this way of doing business is the residue of an old ideal of the university. Such survivals of previous practices are not unusual in social life. Physicians, for example, experience a struggle between two competing understandings of their field: the prevalent view that treating patients is a business, and the residue of the old ideal that it is a calling. Ministers live the same ambiguity. Faculty committees constitute the respect that today's university pays to the old notion that it is a community of students and scholars. The impotence of the committees is acknowledgment that at this time in history, institutions of higher education are business ventures, in certain ways similar to factories.
  • If education is primarily a business, managers hire the faculty. If universities are communities of students and scholars, faculty members hire the managers.
  • The growing disempowerment of the faculty is accelerated by the distance of governing boards from campus processes.
maureen greenbaum

Edu-Traitor! Confessions of a Prof Who Believes Higher Ed Isn't the Only Goal | HASTAC - 52 views

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shared by maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • many brilliant, talented young people are dropping out of high school because they see high school as implicilty "college prep" and they cannot imagine anything more dreary than spending four more years bored in a classroom when they could be out actually experiencing and perfecting their skills in the trades, the skills, and the careers that inspire them.
  • The abolishing of art, music, physical education, tech training, and shop from grade schools and high schools means that the requirement for excellence has shrunk more and more right at the time when creativity, imagination, dexterity, adaptability to change, technical know-how, and all the rest require more not less diversity. 
    • Peg Mahon
      Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
       
      AMEN!
  • we make education hell for so many kids, we undermine their skills and their knowledge, we underscore their resentment, we emphasize class division and hierarchy, and we shortchange their future and ours,
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  • There are so many viable and important and skilled professions that cannot be outsourced to either an exploitative Third World sweat shop or to a computer, that require face-to-face presence, and a bucketload of skills--but that  do not require a college education:  the full range of IT workers, web designers, body workers (ie deep tissue massage), yoga and pilates instructors, fitness educators, DJ's, hair dressers, retail workers, food industry professionals, entertainers,  entertainment industry professionals, construction workers, dancers, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, landscapers, nanny's, elder-care professionals, nurses's aids, dog trainers, cosmetologists, athletes, sales people, fashion designers, novelists, poets, furniture makers, book keepers, sound engineers, inn keepers, wedding planners, stylists, photographers, auto mechanics, and on and on.  
  • maureen greenbaum on 09 Aug 11
     
    Cathy Davidson
  • Carol Ansel on 09 Aug 11
     
    In general, I agree. However, novelists and poets don't need college?? And perhaps less so to artists and musicians? Perhaps... but what better way to learn the history and analysis of their Art, in order to place their own work in context?
  • Peg Mahon on 10 Aug 11
     
    I could not agree more with you Maureen. As a long time middle school teacher in Oakland and Mpls I am thoroughly convinced that our nation and our states are nuts to have cut all of the tech and arts classes out of elementary, middle and high schools. EVERY student should learn a trade/skill set in high school. The hs drop out rate is horrifying and no surprise that the crime rate follows. We have a nation of under achieving teens because the adults have not kept up with funding the myriad of opportunities that would capture and harness their interests and creativity. I look forward to reading your book Maureen and to following you on here.
anonymous

University Business - May 2011 [36] - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Aug 11
     
    Collaboration Station: Designing an effective group study space - whether it's out in the open or behind a closed door - takes a team. By Melissa Ezarik (great article on how design impacts study spaces in higher ed)
Siri Anderson

Why Google+ Could be a Game-Changer in Higher Education - Century College Marketing Program Blog - 86 views

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  • Siri Anderson on 10 Aug 11
     
    Stephen Kelly is an innovative thinker about online learning potential with social media. 
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