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Paul Beaufait

Rewriting research / Special report: Social academia / Special Reports / Home - Broker - 8 views

  • Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions.
  • Above all, to be successful, a wiki needs constant maintenance. ‘Group buy-in’ and ‘collective adoption’ are essential, which means that all members of the group must share an enthusiasm to make regular contributions. In contrast with academic blogs, where the identity of the main contributor is clear, wikis tend to downplay individual identity in favour of the group. They also feature research that often places equal value on academic and non-academic perspectives.
  • Proponents of wikis argue that such collaboration has the potential to ensure that the quality of research is higher than that produced by individual scholars. But in an academic setting this will happen only if Surowiecki’s collaboration and cooperation problems are resolved.
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  • The most important requirement for a successful collaborative writing project via a wiki is that all those involved must be motivated to contribute.
  • Although it is difficult to argue that the quality of publications is actually improved through blogging or online collaborative writing, evidence from various scholars does suggest that this is a possibility.
  • Perhaps we are witnessing the start of an era of separation between what could become two realms of research. One is the realm of traditional ‘pure’ research where, independent of technologies like the internet, the goal is to achieve scientific discoveries that may eventually trickle down to the outside world. In the other, a realm that is much more closely focused on society and policy, practitioners communicate directly, and in real time, with that outside world.
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    Ward, Janelle. (2009). Rewriting research. The Broker 15, 12-18. Retrieved February 21, 2011, from http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Special-Reports/Special-report-Social-academia/Rewriting-research Source of recast: Online Collaborative Writing: How Blogs And Wikis Are Changing The Academic Publishing Process Link: http://www.masternewmedia.org/online-collaborative-writing-how-blogs-and-wikis-are-changing-the-academic-publishing-process/
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Sarah Hanawald

Academic Earth Is The Hulu For Education - 0 views

  • academic resources were grossly underutilized, as they were scattered across different sites and offered in varying file formats, making them difficult to find and browse.
  • iTunes U hosts a lot of university content as well.
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      Along with a gazillion other things, which is possibly a deterrant.
  • just repurposing existing academic content
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    An organizing entity for what I've been hearing about with college professors putting their lectures online. Apparently, they are not viewed as much as people thought would happen. Now there's a site that pulls them all together. It's called Academic Earth.
priyanshu1

Tips To Improve Academic Performance With Online Tuition - Swiflearn - 0 views

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    Trying to improve your marks? Learn how you can improve your academic performance with Online tuition tips at Swiflearn. Visit us to know more! https://swiflearn.com/blog/tips-to-improve-academic-performance-with-online-tuition/
Darcy Goshorn

Experience with facilitating professional development and TurnItIn - 18 views

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    In an environment where global economy, global collaboration, and global 'knowledge' are  the aspiration of many countries, the understanding of the complexities of plagiarism becomes  a global requirement that needs to be addressed by all educators and learners. This paper  considers a simple definition of plagiarism, and then briefly considers reasons why students  plagiarise. At Unitec NZ, Te Puna Ako: The Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation  (TPA:CTLI) is working closely with faculty, managers, student support services and library  personnel to introduce strategies and tools that can be integrated into programmes and  curricula whilst remaining flexible enough to be tailored for specific learners. The authors  therefore provide an overview of one of the tools available to check student work for  plagiarism - Turnitin - and describe the academic Professional Development (PD)  approaches that have been put in place to share existing expertise, as well as help staff at  Unitec NZ to use the tool in pedagogically informed ways, which also assist students in its  use. Evaluation and results are considered, before concluding with some recommendations. It  goes on to theorise how blended programmes that fully integrate academic literacy skills and  conventions might be used to positively scaffold students in the avoidance of plagiarism.  Conference participants will be asked to comment on and discuss their institutions' approach  to supporting the avoidance of plagiarism (including the utilisation of PDS and other  deterrents), describe their own personal experiences, and relate the strategies they employ in  their teaching practice and assessment design to help their learners avoid plagiarism. It is  planned to record the session so that the audience's narratives can be shared with other  practitioners.
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Sherry Markle

How Do You Cite a Tweet in an Academic Paper? - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    citations for both APA and MLA are included in this blog session.
Sasha Thackaberry

Why Online Students Succeed - 6 views

  • Insights on Online Student Performance In the spring of 2015, Eduventures fielded the Eduventures’ 2015 Online Student Survey of 28,000 students, primarily adult learners over the age of 25, who are currently pursuing a degree or certificate program online. One goal of this research was to help our clients better understand factors driving or hindering success in an online learning environment. As part of our survey, we asked respondents to assess their academic performance to date, with responses ranging from “great” to “very poor,” and to identify specific factors they say contribute to high or low performance.
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    In the spring of 2015, Eduventures fielded the Eduventures' 2015 Online Student Survey of 28,000 students, primarily adult learners over the age of 25, who are currently pursuing a degree or certificate program online. One goal of this research was to help our clients better understand factors driving or hindering success in an online learning environment. As part of our survey, we asked respondents to assess their academic performance to date, with responses ranging from "great" to "very poor," and to identify specific factors they say contribute to high or low performance. Read More at www.eduventures.com/2015/06/why-online-students-succeed/
Clay Leben

Storytelling as Instructional Method - 34 views

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    Academic paper summarizes 4 instructional uses for storytelling.
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Peter Shanks

How Scholars Are Using Twitter (Infographic) - 19 views

  • Among academics who use the service, the majority of their tweets are unrelated to their scholarly work, according to the research.
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    "Among academics who use the service, the majority of their tweets are unrelated to their scholarly work, according to the research." ... perhaps at the university, but in the vocational education sphere I would argue that tweets are much more work focused.
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Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 0 views

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    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
Greg O'Connor

Stepping Up the Backchannel In the Classroom | Langwitches Blog - 0 views

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    Students need our guidance to use virtual platforms for ACADEMIC purposes. We can't rely on their "so called" native status to know how and what to do. Just a few years ago, no one had heard of "backchanneling", nowadays, it has become main stream (although most people might not associate the term "backchannel" and "backchanneling" with something they might be familiar with. when you watch one of your favorite TV shows and are asked to use a twitter hashtag to interact with other viewers or the actors/participants…. you are participating in a backchannel when you are listening to a live political speech and are updating your Facebook status,  "liking" of commenting on someone else's status… you are in a backchannel when you are passing a note (in the same room) or texting a colleague or classmate during a meeting or lecture… YOU are in a backchannel
Admission Times

5 Free Websites Every College Student Should Know - 9 views

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    In this era of rapid changes, top educational websites for students plays a crucial role in providing the relevant information about the Universities in USA. A lot factors are to be assessed and shortlisted regarding the USA Universities, before getting into one. Many key factors like deadlines, scholarships, ranking, application procedure, academic qualification, tuition fees , and exams, plays a critical role on students' as well as on parents' mind.
Sumit Thakur

Does Aggressive advertising by some Universities a threat for the operational viability... - 0 views

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    Myadmission.info is an education portal exclusively focusing & addressing the information needs of the student looking for admission in engineering colleges and guide them the best colleges as per their academic credentials and entrance examination ranks/scores.
Shelly Terrell

The Complete (?) List of Academic (Higher Education and K12) Learning Management System... - 0 views

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    The following Learning Management System Vendors provide Learning Management Systems that are designed primarily for use in Higher Education and K12 learning although some products may also be used in corporate instructor-led training environments.
Sarah Hanawald

Kim Cofino's Collaboration Continuum Cycle - 0 views

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    Very thoughful graphic and language that emphasizes the nature of excellent tech support in an academic (teaching) environment.
Allison Kipta

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) - 0 views

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    This interdisciplinary journal aims to focus on the exchange of relevant trends and research results as well as the presentation of practical experiences gained while developing and testing elements of technology enhanced learning. So it aims to bridge the gape between pure academic research journals and more practical publications. So it covers the full range from research, application development to experience reports and product descriptions.
Jeff Johnson

The LoTi Connection - 0 views

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    Many schools are already inundated with curriculum initiatives, state mandates, and technology infusion programs designed to improve instruction and promote student academic success. The last thing they need is another new initiative to add to a litany of reform efforts. What makes LoTi different?
Jeff Johnson

Professional Learning Community - 0 views

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    The term professional learning community describes a collegial group of administrators and school staff who are united in their commitment to student learning. They share a vision, work and learn collaboratively, visit and review other classrooms, and participate in decision making (Hord, 1997b). The benefits to the staff and students include a reduced isolation of teachers, better informed and committed teachers, and academic gains for students. Hord (1997b) notes, "As an organizational arrangement, the professional learning community is seen as a powerful staff-development approach and a potent strategy for school change and improvement."
Ced Paine

udtechtoolkit - home - 0 views

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    These free tools offer opportunities for struggling learners that promote academic success
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