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Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - 17 views

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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.
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Taking Lecture and Class Notes - 68 views

www.dartmouth.edu/...notes.html teaching
shared by Kate Pok on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
    • Kate Pok
      Kate Pok on 02 Nov 11
       
      Useful site with handouts for students on note-taking.
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Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare - 86 views

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shared by sha towers on 06 Jan 11 - Cached
  • trisha_poole on 06 Jan 11
     
    Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
  • sha towers on 13 Apr 11
     
    MIT's opencourseware feels like the logical outgrowth of Illich's "learning webs" (from Deschooling essay) 
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Defining Active Learning | Faculty Focus - 40 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...defining-active-learning learning engagement
shared by April Johnson on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Most faculty know that active learning is important even though many still lecture pretty much exclusively.
  • Steve Ransom on 09 Feb 11
     
    Words Matter: "The process of having students engage in some activity that forces them to reflect upon ideas and how they are using those ideas. Requiring students to regularly assess their own degree of understanding and skill at handling concepts or problems in a particular discipline. The attainment of knowledge by participating or contributing. The process of keeping students mentally, and often physically, active in their learning through activities that involve them in gathering information, thinking and problem solving."
  • April Johnson on 11 Feb 11
     
    This has interesting points about active learning!
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Smart Boards: A classroom asset? - Local News from Myrecordjournal.com - 5 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • most common SmartBoard uses were showing videos and information from the Web.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 22 Mar 11
       
      Yes... to project stuff. A wall would be a whole lot cheaper!
  • oschese now prefers the "$2 whiteboard," a two- by two-and-a-half foot dry-erase whiteboard a small group of students can use while working on a problem. That type of board is truly interactive, he said, and makes learning social.
  • "Interactive whiteboards don't really lend themselves to that kind of pedagogy," Noschese said. "I think the teaching style has a lot more impact on the kids than a piece of equipment."
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  • "It's still just showing them something on a screen," Noschese said. "It needs to be more student-centered."
  • Noschese still uses his SmartBoard, mainly as a projector.
  • Teacher training can reduce the risk of the devices being used as glorified projectors or reinforcing the lecture model.
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The Future of Learning: An Interview with Alfred Bork - 82 views

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shared by maureen greenbaum on 29 May 11 - No Cached
  • nteraction should be frequent
  • as in human conversation
  • active environment maintains student interest for a long period of time, even with difficult learning material.
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  • the computer, keeping detailed records on student performance and using these records in making decisions about what is next to be presented to the student.
  • In our traditional learning environments, some students learn and some do not. It is this second group of students that we want to help.
  • problem of almost all modern learning is the lecture, a noninteractive way of learning
  • , on a moment-to-moment basis, just what the student knows and just what learning problems are occurring
  • It begins immediately with a question, with no preceding text.
  • experience the joy of discovery.
  • tutorial approach to learning makes it possible for everyone to learn.
  • critical factor is that we can react to individual student problems
  • key concept for structuring highly interactive learning experiences is the Benjamin Bloom concept of mastery learning.
  • goal is for everyone to learn everything to the mastery level, grades will no longer be useful
  • A student who has not learned in one way probably needs a different approach, rather than another go-round with the material that was not previously successful in assisting learning.
  • In such an environment, learning and evaluation are no longer separate activities but are part of the same process, intimately blended. So the student is not conscious of taking tests, and we avoid the problems of cheating.
  • highly interactive learning is intrinsically motivating. Motivation is particularly important in a distance-learning environment, since none of the "threats" of the classroom, such as low grades, are available.
  • mastery-based computer segment could also offer human contact. Small groups could work together, either locally or remotely via electronic communication.
  • existing authoring systems. Since they were, and still are, mostly directed toward supplying information, these were inadequate for creating highly interactive software.
  • Bertrand Ibrahim at the University of Geneva,
  • omputer stores much of the information as the students progress through the material.
  • Teaching faculty, in the sense that we know them today, may cease to exist, except for in smaller, advanced courses. But their skills and experiences will be important in the design of learning modules.
  • High costs of development can lead to low costs per student, if many students use the material.
  • $30,000 per student-hour of high-quality learning material
  • highly effective highly interactive distance-learning courses would have a large potential market, making them much cheaper per student than current courses, and if well developed, they will be much superior for almost all students
  • The typical approach is to give some released time to faculty and to give limited support for programming and media production. It is unlikely, almost impossible, that good learning material will be developed this way.
  • Universities are too stuck in their current ways of doing things to be able to compete with well-developed material from "outside." Most university faculty and administrators do not appreciate the current problems of learning and so are not prepared for these future directions.
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Teaching Science Is Bolstered by Fewer Lectures and More Working in Groups - NYTimes.com - 70 views

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shared by Casey Finnerty on 15 May 11 - Cached
  • At the end of the study, students in the experimental class who took a test on the material scored 74 percent, on average, more than twice the average of students in the comparison course who took the test. On midterm exams the two classes had scored almost exactly the same.
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Five Things Students Say They Want From Education| The Committed Sardine - 88 views

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shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • 1. Real-world application and relevancy
  • 3. Innovation
  • 5. Interactive technology
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  • 4. Teacher mentors
  • 2. Choice
  • make the class a welcoming place instead of a dreaded one.
  • more time to reflect on what they learn
  • The teachers [who] are still using overhead projectors should be run out of town!
  • more practical, hands-on experience and not just lectures and homework
  • where they can experiment, discuss, and reflect on what they observed, and then redo the activity.
  • teacher who engages them in learning rather than constantly ‘telling’ them what they should learn, and a curriculum that explains the ‘what’ and ‘why’ and connects it to their lives.”
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http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/resources/PublicationsArchives/StudiesWhitepapers/Classroom... - 36 views

www.cmu.edu/...ClassroomResponse_Nov07.pdf lecture webcasting and educational use
shared by Frederick Eberhardt on 06 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Frederick Eberhardt on 06 Oct 11
     
    A Teaching with Technology White Paper, 2007. Carnegie Mellon University www.cmu.edu/teaching
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modeling instruction - 41 views

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shared by Sigrid Murphy on 05 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Frank Noschese on 05 Apr 11
     
    When students create the knowledge, there is no need for textbooks, lectures, or videos
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COMP8440 - ANU - College of Engineering and Computer Science - 24 views

cs.anu.edu.au/...lectures.php anu college programming opensource curriculum FLOSS projectmanagement
shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 10 Apr 11
     
    This course provides an overview of the historical and modern context and operation of free and open source software (FOSS) communities and associated software projects. The practical objective of the course is to teach students how they can begin to participate in a FOSS project in order to contribute to and improve aspects of the software that they feel are wrong. Students will learn some important FOSS tools and techniques for contributing to projects and how to set up their own FOSS projects.
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Teacher-Led Professional Development: Eleven Reasons Why You Should be Using Classroom ... - 108 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11 - Cached
  • "I'm done talking ... it's time to take this training into the classroom - that's where the teaching is going on. Besides, you need to build your local capacity."
  • f the large group is "the lecture," the CWT is the "lab."
  • Steve Ransom on 18 Apr 11
     
    Another great post by Peter Pappas
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Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design | Faculty Focus - 102 views

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shared by Betty O'Connell on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • days could more accurately be described as the electronic version of class hand-outs. These courses usually consist of a course description, a syllabus, lecture notes, reading lists, and assignment checklists. In other words, whatever materials a student might have viewed on paper in the past are now read onscreen, and whatever presentations a student might have watched in the classroom are now observed on their screen
  • Online Course Design Pitfall #1: Upload your course materials, then call it a day.Reading your course material on a computer screen does not make for a memorable learning experience. Step back and take a fresh look at your content in the larger context of the world and the Web
  • Online Course Design Pitfall #2: Let the course management system drive your thinking.Course management systems (CMS) are usually preconfigured with a course template that instructors are expected to populate with their course description, syllabus, assignments, and announcements. Often these templates
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Socrative Teacher - 85 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 30 Jun 11
     
    Class voting systems can be expensive and take time to set up. This is a wonderful site that lets your students take part in a poll or vote using any internet enabled device, such as a mobile phone. Students log in by going to http://m.socrative.com http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+&+Web+Tools
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EDU - YouTube - 108 views

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shared by Larissa Wright-Elson on 29 Oct 11 - Cached
  • tom campbell on 29 Oct 11
     
    youtube education channel
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