The figure below shows a rectangle with width 3 and height y. The product 3y represents the area of the 3-by-y rectangle. Change the value of y by dragging the red point up and down the vertical axis. Note that as the point is dragged, the area of the rectangle changes simultaneously.
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6.1 Learning about Multiplication Using Dynamic Sketches of an Area Model - 29 views
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This is a great exploration for students to begin making connections between whole number multiplication and decimal multiplication. One modification I would make is to have students make a partition (on grid paper) to show the partial products so I could connect the figure to a symbolic algorithm for multiplication and the distributive property. For example, if it was 1.2 x 3, the partial products might be (1x3) + (.2 x 3).
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Example of using area model to explore multiplication by values greater than 1 and values between 0 and 1.
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Are kids really motivated by technology? | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 10 views
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You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating. Worse yet, students are almost always ambivalent toward digital tools.
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Technology, as Dina Strasser likes to say, is a motivational red herring
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What students are really motivated by are opportunities to be social — to interact around challenging concepts in powerful conversations with their peers.
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Technology’s role in today’s classroom, then, isn’t to motivate. It’s to give students opportunities to efficiently and effectively participate in motivating activities built around the individuals and ideas that matter to them.
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Once you have the answers to these questions — only after you have the answers to these questions — are you ready to make choices about the kinds of digital tools that are worth embracing.
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You can’t motivate students with technology because technology alone isn’t motivating
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You can't motivate students with technology because technology alone isn't motivating. Worse yet, students are almost always ambivalent toward digital tools.
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Malaria Lifecycle Part 1: Human Host | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - 50 views
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EXCELLENT video on malaria lifecycle showing how the parasite infects a human host
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Wikipedia:FAQ/Schools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Students should never use information in Wikipedia (or any other online encyclopedia) for formal purposes (such as school essays) until they have verified and evaluated the information based on external sources. For this reason, Wikipedia, like any encyclopedia, is a great starting place for research but not always a great ending place.
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It is possible for a given Wikipedia article to be biased, outdated, or factually incorrect. This is true of any resource. One should always double-check the accuracy of important facts, regardless of the source. In general, popular Wikipedia articles are more accurate than ones that receive little traffic, because they are read more often and therefore any errors are corrected in a more timely fashion. Wikipedia articles may also suffer from issues such as Western bias, but hopefully this will also improve with time. For more information
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Although the majority of edits attempt to improve the encyclopedia, vandalism is frequent.
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If an anonymous or relatively new user changes a statistic or date by even a little bit, without justifying their edit, they are particularly likely to raise a red flag. If an individual continues to vandalize after being warned, then they may even be blocked from further editing.
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keeps a full history of every change to every article
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It is for this reason that readers must be particularly diligent in verifying Wikipedia against its external sources, as discussed above. It is also a good idea, if you feel uncomfortable about an article, to check its history for recent "bad-faith" edits. If you find a piece of uncorrected vandalism, you might even decide to help future users by correcting it yourself. That's a great feature of Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia can be an excellent starting place for further research.
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Students can compare information in Wikipedia with information in other encyclopedias or books in the library. As a general rule, contributors to Wikipedia are encouraged to cite their sources, but, of course, not all do. For the sake of verifiability, it is advisable to cite an article that has listed its sources. Most of our better articles have sections such as "References," "Sources," "Notes," "Further reading," or "External links," which generally contain such information.
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The 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools is a selection of 5,500 articles deemed suitable for school children and has been checked and edited for this audience and protected against editing or vandalism. It contains about the equivalent content to a 20 volume encyclopaedia organized around school curriculum subjects, and is available online and as a free download for use by schools.
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Educators can use Wikipedia as a way of teaching students to develop hierarchies of credibility that are essential for navigating and conducting research on the Internet.
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Wikipedia's objective is to become a compendium of published knowledge about notable subjects.
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Red Tape - Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords - 6 views
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job seekers applying to the state's Department of Corrections have been asked during interviews to log into their accounts and let an interviewer watch while the potential employee clicks through wall posts, friends, photos and anything else that might be found behind the privacy wall.
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schools are requiring them to "friend" a coach or compliance officer,
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it had reviewed 2,689 applicants via social media, and denied employment to seven because of items found on their pages
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For student athletes, though, the access isn't voluntary. No access, no sports.
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the rush to social media monitoring raises an often overlooked legal concern: It's against Facebook's Terms of Service
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You will not share your password ... let anyone else access your account or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account
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And the state of Illinois has followed Maryland's lead and is considering similar legislation to ban social media password demands by employers
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The Perfect Workspace (According to Science) - 99U - 42 views
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making your own decisions about how to organize your workspace has an empowering effect and has been linked with improved productivity
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simple use of a pin-board to post your own pictures and messages could help you feel that the space is yours
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furniture that is curved and rounded rather than sharp and straight-edged
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sitting in circles provokes a collective mindset
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blue and green has been shown to enhance performance on tasks that require generating new ideas.
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red has been linked with superior performance on tasks involving attention to detail.
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dimmer
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invest in a green plant or two
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window with a view
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“We don’t understand psychologically why putting someone in an impoverished space should work, when it doesn’t work for any other animal on the planet,”
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more of online “innovations” like competency-based education.
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reauthorization of the Higher Education Act might shake out.
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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.
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“States could accredit online courses, or hybrid models with elements on- and off-campus.”
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any new money for those emerging models would likely come out of the coffers of traditional colleges.
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cut back on red tape that prevents colleges from experimenting with ways to cut prices and boost student learning.
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decentralized, more streamlined form of accreditation.
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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.
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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.
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eliminating bureaucracy in higher education regulation is a top priority
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“Accreditation could also be available to specialized programs, individual courses, apprenticeships, professional credentialing and even competency-based tests,”
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“The gateway to education reform is education oversight reform,”
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broad, bipartisan agreement that federal aid policies have not kept pace with new approaches to higher education.
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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.
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accreditors is that they favor the status quo, in part because they are membership organizations of academics that essentially practice self-regulation.
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“The technology has reached the point where it really can improve learning,” he said, adding that “it can lower the costs.”
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changes to the existing accreditation system that might make it easier for competency-based and other emerging forms of online education to spread.
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offering competency-based degrees through a process called direct assessment, which is completely de-coupled from the credit-hour standard.
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Moving Toward the Paperless Institute - National Writing Project - 16 views
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But in our 2007 summer institute, we facilitators wondered aloud, "What if these responses could be put online?" Within minutes, Eric ignited a sea of change in red Clay by creating a way for fellows to answer these questions via an online survey tool. Now, instead of mad scribbling, happy goodbyes, and plans for beer that night, the sounds at the end of any day in the summer institute have become mad typing, happy goodbyes, and plans for beer that night."
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This quote gets me thinking about ways that our own Writing Project is moving towards a paperless institute.
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USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people's access to writt... - 0 views
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Right now, in Geneva, at the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, history is being made. For the first time in WIPO history, the body that creates the world's copyright treaties is attempting to write a copyright treaty dedicated to protecting the interests of copyright users, not just copyright owners. At issue is a treaty to protect the rights of blind people and people with other disabilities that affect reading (people with dyslexia, people who are paralyzed or lack arms or hands for turning pages), introduced by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay. This should be a slam dunk: who wouldn't want a harmonized system of copyright exceptions that ensure that it's possible for disabled people to get access to the written word? The USA, that's who. The Obama administration's negotiators have joined with a rogue's gallery of rich country trade representatives to oppose protection for blind people. Other nations and regions opposing the rights of blind people include Canada and the EU. Update: Also opposing rights for disabled people: Australia, New Zealand, the Vatican and Norway.
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Copyright "rights for the user" champion and author, Cory Doctorow, reports on efforts to guarantee rights for the blind and others with reading disabilities to gain access to the printed word. It's happening at the UN's World Organization for Intellectual Property, and it's the first time they are working on rights for copyright USERS in addition to copyright HOLDERS. Read about how U.S. negotiators have opposed this protection for disabled. It's an important issue for educators worldwide, but especially for those in the U.S., whose copyright law has been written to strongly favor corporate interests.
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From Lab to Red Carpet - NYTimes.com - 24 views
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If anything, stories like Ms. Portman’s show that great success, like DNA, is constructed of a few basic building blocks: tenacity, focus, and the old Woody Allen line about just showing up.
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QuadernsDigitals.NET: DISEÑO DE MINI-QUEST CON LA HERRAMIENTA APTURE, UN RECU... - 2 views
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Tratamos de mostrar los problemas que surgen a menudo en la práctica diaria docente a la hora de acometer realmente una webquest con el alumnado, y proponemos una alternativa viable para solventar esos problemas: la realización de mini-quest de una sola sesión, ayudándonos de la herramienta web Apture, que genera ventanas emergentes incrustadas dentro de la pantalla inmediata de visión del alumnado.
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Education Week: 'Curriculum' Definition Raises Red Flags - 36 views
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Calls for shared curriculum for the common standards have triggered renewed debates about who decides what students learn, and even about varied meanings of the word "curriculum," adding layers of complexity to the job of translating the broad learning goals into classroom teaching.
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Keys to long life: Longevity study unearths surprising answers - 41 views
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Keys to long life
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Friedman and Leslie R. Martin , a 1996 UCR alumna (Ph.D.) and staff researchers, have published those findings in "The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study" (Hudson Street Press, March 2011).
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It's never too late to choose a healthier path, Friedman and Martin said. The first step is to throw away the lists and stop worrying about worrying. "Some of the minutiae of what people think will help us lead long, healthy lives, such as worrying about the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids in the foods we eat, actually are red herrings, distracting us from the major pathways," Friedman said. "When we recognize the long-term healthy and unhealthy patterns in ourselves, we can begin to maximize the healthy patterns." "Thinking of making changes as taking 'steps' is a great strategy," Martin advised. "You can't change major things about yourself overnight. But making small changes, and repeating those steps, can eventually create that path to longer life."
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SPAN 103N W01 S111: Foro de lenguaje y cultura - Semana 9 - El embarazo - Due Sunday, 7/17 - 7 views
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Suggestions: Use past tense (preterite) more often to talk about things that happened in the past. The verbs you recognized are good examples. At this point, though, not only should you recognize words, but phrases and TENSES/CONCEPTS, as well. These are the grammar examples you will need to share on your chart. Did you see any reflexive verbs? Commands? Preterite? If so, share the example AND the English equivalent (translation). -
Also, for your chart you might end up being short on Country-Specific resources. When looking for things to share, think about sharing info from a particular country. It is too late for this post, but since your resource is from California, perhaps you could find some info on the Hispanic population in California. Where are they from? Then pick one of those countries of origin and find some info about it for us. Bingo! Country-specific example for your chart.
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Since this forum is over, you can post this info on the "country-specific catch-up forum" that I will make available immediately.
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I sense a lot of stress about the forum requirements, so I am going to provide group feedback this way. Make sure to click on each "sticky note" to get my feedback on the post. This will help you complete your chart as best as possible.
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HIGHLIGHTS: You will see a lot of highlights on this page. Pink/red highlights indicate a mistake is present. I have not highlighted ALL mistakes, just some that you should be able to fix with what you know at this point. GREEN means GOOD! I have highlighted many phrases that indicate good/correct grammar usage. Sometimes I highlight in green things that I really like :-) Green means GO!!!
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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT BEING SHORT ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC REFERENCES, I WILL SHARE IDEAS ON HOW TO INCLUDE THOSE AND PROVIDE A SEPARATE "Country-Specific Catch-Up Forum" where you can explore individual countries a bit further.
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Vi la pagina
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Me encanta
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unico
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Lo unico que puedes hacer es revisar y leer tus viejos forums y buscar ejemplos que
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usastes.
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Me pongo
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nervioso
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If you want to say "I completed," you should use the preterite. Verb = COMPLETAR. Yo completé.
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This post is very interesting. The quote included is informative and summarizes the findings of the source Gabriela consulted. This information is very useful for all of us. The content is excellent, but I would like to see more linguistic information. For example, did you pick up any new words from reading this article? If so, you should list them (WITH English translations for the benefit of classmates). Also, to obtain country-specific resources, you could have looked up premature births in Spanish-speaking countries and focused on one in particular, perhaps sharing information or a resource from that country. Feel free to do this and post on the "make-up forum" available soon.
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Yo necesito leer mis viejos forums
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Yo escribo el charto pronto
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unico problema
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ayudan
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yo vi que usaron el preterite(pasado tenso) como "se logro-was accomplished".
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usted sito
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son
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en español: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXmHnpBgEqw.
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muchísimas ejemplos
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los verbos reflexivos, empieza immediatemente en diapositiva 2: “se usa para identificar afecctiones serias o mortales antes que lo síntomas aparezcan. Se puede empezar el tratamiento antes que la salud del bebé se perjudique por estas afecciones.”
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Objeto Directo ejemplo, de diapositiva 4: “...el tratamiento puede salvarle o evitarle problemas....”
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Objeto Indirecto ejemplo, de diapositiva 16: “...si no le practicaron pruebas preliminares de la audición a su bebé al nacer, asegúrarse de que le practiquen estas pruebas.”
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Y Objecto Doble en diapositiva 22: “...y al recién nacido se les da de alta antes que el bebé....”
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Ejemplos de vocabulario nuevo
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Ahora estoy curiosa como se prueban los recién nacidos in otros países. Encuentro un sitio de Bolivia
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No la encuentro la misma que Bolivia
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la situación en Venezuela
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me dijo
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Hablé con mis vecinos, quienes son de El Salvador
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Tuve que buscar
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yo no realizo que “verb use” fue el verbos yo uso en “my post.”
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el nacio vajo
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nombre de la operación
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Panoramas.dk- Midsummer in Sweden, Red Army Pop Art in Sofia, Buckingham Palace, Salt L... - 45 views
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A great site containing hundreds of 360 degree panorama photos from all over the world. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+%26+Images
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SNHU: How Paul LeBlanc's tiny school has become a giant of higher education. - 1 views
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Students are referred to as “customers.”
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t deploys data analytics for everything from anticipating future demand to figuring out which students are most likely to stumble.
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“Public institutions will not see increasing state funding and private colleges will not see ever-rising tuition.”
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tackle what colleges were doing poorly: graduating students. Half the students who enroll in post-secondary education never get a degree but still accumulate debt
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school spends millions to employ more than 160 “admissions counselors” who man the phones, especially on weekends, guiding prospective students into the right degree program
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vast majority are working adults, many with families, whose lives rarely align with an academic timetable.
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“College is designed in every way for that 20 percent—cost, time, scheduling, everything,” says LeBlanc. He set out to create an institution for the other 80 percent, one that was flexible and offered a seamless online experience
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low completion rate can be blamed partly on the fact that college is still designed for 18-year-olds who are signing up for an immersive, four-year experience replete with football games and beer-drinking. But those traditional students make up only 20 percent of the post-secondary population.
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online courses are created centrally and then farmed out to a small army of adjuncts hired for as little as $2,200 a class. Those adjuncts have scant leeway in crafting the learning experience.
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An instructor’s main job is to swoop in when a student is in trouble. Often, they don’t pick up the warning signs themselves. Instead, SNHU’s predictive analytics platform plays watchdog, sending up a red flag to an instructor when a student hasn’t logged on recently or has spent too much time on an assignment
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highly standardized courses, and adjuncts who act more like coaches than professors
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The Amazon of Higher Education- How tiny, struggling Southern New Hampshire University has become a behemoth.
Conectivismo y aprendizaje en Red. Diego Leal Fonseca #IBERTIC - YouTube - 3 views