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'Badges' Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas - 0 views
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"Employers might prefer a world of badges to the current system. After all, traditional college diplomas look elegant when hung on the wall, but they contain very little detail about what the recipient learned. "
Some Undergrads Skipping Textbook Buying - 0 views
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Seven out of 10 undergraduate students attending the University of California, Riverside don't buy textbooks, preferring to rent them, rely on instructor-provided materials, or go without. According to a recent "Undergraduate Experience Survey," run annually, 73 percent of respondents reported postponing the purchase, and 74 percent chose to skip buying them altogether. Those counts are similar to results from a 2010 survey.
Mozilla Badges Project - 0 views
Winter Faculty Institute 2012 - 1 views
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5 Predictions for Higher Ed Technology in 2012 - 0 views
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"No doubt, 2011 was a year of shrinking government funding for education, rising student debt, rising unemployment among college grads (gasp! people questioned the value of a college diploma!) and growing private sector investment in education companies. 2012 will likely bring more of the same."
For Mobile Strategies, Open Source Offers Flexibility - 0 views
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"In considering open source versus vendor source, we're looking at the total cost, the project budget, the speed of deployment, and the ability to be agile," said Bailey. "If we need three to five years to implement a low-cost solution, that's not a good choice."
The Blended Learning Toolkit: A DIY Resource for Blended Learning Instructors and Desig... - 0 views
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"Want to get started in blended learning but don't know where to begin? UCF has created the Blended Learning Toolkit (BLT), an open educational web-based resource. In addition to BLT's broad overviews of blended learning models, processes, research findings, and evaluation models useful for institutional administrators, of particular interest to blended learning faculty and instructional designers are numerous detailed do-it-yourself (DIY) resources in the BlendKit Course designed to support them in developing their first blended learning course."
Recalibrating Expectations for eTexts - 0 views
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"One explanation for the lack of student interest in eTexts may be the price: current eText products have yet to deliver on the widespread expectation that "digital should cost less." However, my (admittedly quick) scan of the textbook market suggests that eTexts are actually among the more expensive textbook options for students."
Debating the 'Flipped Classroom' at Stanford - 0 views
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"Mr. Rudolph took particular exception to the programming exercises, in which the computer automatically informed students whether or not they got 100 percent on the task. "It's so black and white," he tells Wired Campus. "They have to make it easy enough so everyone can get 100 percent, basically. In the past I've turned in programming assignments, and only the really smart kids got stellar scores, because they went above and beyond. This model kind of discourages that.""
Google's 3D Human Body Browser Is Now Open-Source - 0 views
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"Zygote Media Group, which provided the imagery for Google's modeling, has built Zygote Body with the code. It offers the same navigation and features. To support this launch, the Google Body team has built a new, open-source 3D viewer at open-3d-viewer.googlecode.com. Thanks to the work of Google engineers, any developer can now use the same kind of 3D model browser for her or his own project."
Digital Public Library of America - 0 views
Facebook Kills University's Historical Profiles - 0 views
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"Facebook disabled the profiles of McDonald and his girlfriend Leola Lewis Wednesday morning, according to Donnelyn Curtis, the University of Nevada librarian who set the profiles up as a way to engage students in learning about history. "
Gove proposes 'wiki curriculum' for the UK - 0 views
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""It struck me then that if we can have a wiki approach of those who have direct experience of the frontline, if we can do it in something as critical as the role of the military, then there is a huge potential to do it in education and other areas as well.""
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)- Code of Best Practices - 0 views
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"In addition to specific exceptions for libraries and educators, academic and research librarians use the important general exemption of fair use to accomplish their mission. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances, especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant."
Why Aren't Students Using E-Books? - 0 views
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"students also share their textbooks because they are so incredibly expensive. And as the digital rights management (DRM) restrictions on e-books makes lending someone your copy difficult if not impossible, students are likely steering away from e-books because they simply don't work for them - practically or economically."
#OpenBadges: challenges and opportunities for assessment - 0 views
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The concept of open badges could also pose a challenge to existing educational institutions, given that they might no longer be the chief conduits for awarding qualifications. Will they fight against the concept of badges or make fundamental changes to become part of the lifelong learning ecosystem, recognising badges in the entry process and awarding badges for more than just the core skills set out by a course, e.g. awarding value badges and recognising badges awarded by peers?
Merit Badges for the Job Market - 0 views
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What if employers didn't care whether applicants held a college diploma but instead asked what educational "badges" they had collected? Like Boy Scout merit badges for professionals, these marks of achievement would show competence in specific skills, and they could be granted by any number of institutions.
US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions: Accessibility and Education - 0 views
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"Full Committee Hearing - The Promise of Accessible Technology: Challenges and Opportunities"
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