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Harrisburg U Suffers Withdrawal of Social Media -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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anonymous on 28 Sep 11

"The wait is almost over. A weeklong exercise in withdrawal from social media usage will end for the campus community at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology shortly. The Pennsylvania university, which performed a similar move last year, has been blocking network access to 10 popular sites, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Hi5, Twitxr, and Plurk, as well as texting outlets. This year's activity has been dubbed, "Back to Blackout." The intent of the blackout is to inspire thinking about how, when, and where people use and abuse social media, according to Eric Darr, executive vice president and provost. "We believe that technology is not inherently good or bad. Rather, technology becomes useful or destructive in the hands of users. This exercise is an attempt to better understand an important technology, social media, that clearly impacts how we live and work. It might inspire students, faculty, and staff to think more about their social media habits and to further raise awareness about the impact that social media has on daily life and work.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The wait is almost over. A weeklong exercise in withdrawal from social media usage will end for the campus community at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology shortly. The Pennsylvania university, which performed a similar move last year, has been blocking network access to 10 popular sites, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut, Hi5, Twitxr, and Plurk, as well as texting outlets. This year's activity has been dubbed, "Back to Blackout." The intent of the blackout is to inspire thinking about how, when, and where people use and abuse social media, according to Eric Darr, executive vice president and provost. "We believe that technology is not inherently good or bad. Rather, technology becomes useful or destructive in the hands of users. This exercise is an attempt to better understand an important technology, social media, that clearly impacts how we live and work. It might inspire students, faculty, and staff to think more about their social media habits and to further raise awareness about the impact that social media has on daily life and work.""</div>

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What Ottawa's new copyright laws will mean for Canadians | Canada Politics - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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copyright canada resources

shared by Christie Robertson on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached

Christie Robertson on 30 Sep 11

Copyright law is back on the table

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Copyright law is back on the table</div>

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Full Interview: Cathy N. Davidson on Evolving Education | Spark - 0 views

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cathydavidson Davidson 21stcentury education

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Blackboard: A Tale Of 2 Companies | Gilfus Education Group - 0 views

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lms blackboard

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anonymous on 02 Sep 11

"The Utah Education Network is a case in point. It left Blackboard, the market leader, for Instructure, a year old Utah-based developer with an open source product called Canvas. Consider the way messages are sent and received on Instructure's Canvas: The receiver has a choice between traditional university E-mail, gmail, Facebook and text messaging; Blackboard's system uses traditional E-mail and was designed before Facebook was created. For a student body that uses social media the way earlier generations used pencil and paper, the differences between the two competitors are profound."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Utah Education Network is a case in point. It left Blackboard, the market leader, for Instructure, a year old Utah-based developer with an open source product called Canvas. Consider the way messages are sent and received on Instructure's Canvas: The receiver has a choice between traditional university E-mail, gmail, Facebook and text messaging; Blackboard's system uses traditional E-mail and was designed before Facebook was created. For a student body that uses social media the way earlier generations used pencil and paper, the differences between the two competitors are profound."</div>

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Marcia Baxter Magolda - self authorship - 0 views

Marcia has done fascinating research on student development through a longitudinal study of students over a 20 year period. As she tracked students over time, she defined 3 stages of what she call...

education teaching

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 Sep 11 no follow-up yet

Are You Prepared for a Social Media Crisis | The Higher ED CIO - 2 views

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anonymous on 16 Sep 11

"Altimeter's research examined companies considered to be advanced in social business and their preparations for or ability to avoid a social media crisis. Given the accelerated us of social media on campus within core services, meaning higher education's adoption of a social media business model, the possibility of a social media crisis arising is something that should be expected and planned for."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Altimeter's research examined companies considered to be advanced in social business and their preparations for or ability to avoid a social media crisis. Given the accelerated us of social media on campus within core services, meaning higher education's adoption of a social media business model, the possibility of a social media crisis arising is something that should be expected and planned for."</div>

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Introducing the OERu - 3 views

http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/10/05/introducing-the-oeru-and-some-questions/ The OERu (the Open Educational Resources University) aims to provide a route to formal accreditation through study of fr...

Online education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 07 Oct 11 no follow-up yet

Advice on online learning from 13 world experts - 2 views

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Reinventing the College Textbook -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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anonymous on 22 Jun 11

"Determined to make introductory college science courses more manageable for students, two professors at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, are developing a digital textbook based on the free, open-source learning management system Moodle. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Determined to make introductory college science courses more manageable for students, two professors at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, are developing a digital textbook based on the free, open-source learning management system Moodle. "</div>

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Liberal-Arts Colleges Venture Into Unlikely Territory: Online Courses - Wired Campus - ... - 0 views

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online learning

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anonymous on 30 Jun 11

"The small liberal-arts college in this Pennsylvania town offers students an intimate learning experience. There is one professor for every eight students, each of whom pays about $40,000 for that kind of access. Now the college wants to add courses that are partly online into this setting, and it wants other liberal-arts institutions to follow suit."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The small liberal-arts college in this Pennsylvania town offers students an intimate learning experience. There is one professor for every eight students, each of whom pays about $40,000 for that kind of access. Now the college wants to add courses that are partly online into this setting, and it wants other liberal-arts institutions to follow suit."</div>

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Mount Royal University - Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - 1 views

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anonymous on 12 Jul 11

"The Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University is pleased to announce our 2011 Centennial Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, November 10-12, 2011 in Banff Alberta Canada. This gathering of teacher/scholars is a "practitioners conference" dedicated to developing individual and collaborative teaching and learning scholarship, sharing nascent data and findings, going public with compelling results of completed research projects, and building an extended scholarly community. The goals of this event, and the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University, include understanding and improving student learning through systematic scholarly inquiry and building collective knowledge for the future."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University is pleased to announce our 2011 Centennial Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, November 10-12, 2011 in Banff Alberta Canada. This gathering of teacher/scholars is a "practitioners conference" dedicated to developing individual and collaborative teaching and learning scholarship, sharing nascent data and findings, going public with compelling results of completed research projects, and building an extended scholarly community. The goals of this event, and the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University, include understanding and improving student learning through systematic scholarly inquiry and building collective knowledge for the future."</div>

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CIDER Webinar on online teacher presence - Nov 2 (11-12 MST) - 3 views

http://www.tonybates.ca/2011/10/24/cider-webinar-on-online-teacher-presence/

education Online

started by Kathy Schwarz on 25 Oct 11 no follow-up yet

IPTEL 2013 - 0 views

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conference edtech

shared by Christie Robertson on 18 Mar 13 - No Cached

For those interested in a global dialogue on increasing access, equity and engagement through innovations in technology-enabled learning. This conference is designed to provide an international forum to explore lessons, challenges and possibilities related to the provision of technology-enhanced learning in a rapidly changing global context. Of particular interest are research and practice that enhance access, engagement and outcomes for students at all levels, who are learning to use educational technology in their practice.
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Study finds some groups fare worse than others in online courses | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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online learning

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anonymous on 01 Apr 13

"Online education is often held out as a way to increase access to higher education, especially for those -- adult students, the academically underprepared, members of some minority groups -- who have historically been underrepresented in college. But that access is meaningful only if it leads somewhere, and if the education students get helps them reach their goals. New data from a long-term study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College suggest that some of the students most often targeted in online learning's access mission are less likely than their peers to benefit from -- and may in fact be hurt by -- digital as opposed to face-to-face instruction. The study did not, however, account for the quality of the online courses studied, making it difficult to draw from its findings overly sweeping generalizations about the efficacy of online learning."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Online education is often held out as a way to increase access to higher education, especially for those -- adult students, the academically underprepared, members of some minority groups -- who have historically been underrepresented in college. But that access is meaningful only if it leads somewhere, and if the education students get helps them reach their goals. New data from a long-term study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College suggest that some of the students most often targeted in online learning's access mission are less likely than their peers to benefit from -- and may in fact be hurt by -- digital as opposed to face-to-face instruction. The study did not, however, account for the quality of the online courses studied, making it difficult to draw from its findings overly sweeping generalizations about the efficacy of online learning."</div>

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anonymous on 01 Apr 13

Interesting article on online learning - completion rates, completers . . .

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting article on online learning - completion rates, completers . . .</div>

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MOBI MOOC - 0 views

MobiMOOC2012 will only have 4 fixed topics: mLearning introduction, mLearning project planning, mLearning in global contexts and mLearning curriculum implementation, the 6 other subjects will be ch...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 19 Apr 12 no follow-up yet

Free mobile learning ebook - 1 views

Did you download the ebook?

started by Kathy Schwarz on 26 Apr 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 27 Apr 12

Largest supplier of free online learning? - 2 views

Wow that is cool, I too would like to hear from someone who has taken a course through them.

education

started by Kathy Schwarz on 01 May 12 1 follow-up, last by Tyler Wall on 01 May 12

"Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success" MOOC - 0 views

Participating in the Massive online open course (MOOC) "Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success" The course is led by Dr. Curtis Bonk, with the assistance of the CourseSites te...

started by Kathy Schwarz on 03 May 12 no follow-up yet

New book on learning design - 0 views

Laurillard, D. (2012) Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology New York/London: Routledge, 258 pp, from $40