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"Mobile Technologies in the Eyes of Students and alumni In June 2010, Ball State University released a study showing that of college students owning phones, 49% owned smartphones. an ECaR report released a few weeks ago documented that this number has since risen to 62% -- showing a rapid rise in adoption. a study by the Pearson Foundation found that a quarter of college students owned a tablet as of January 2012, a population that has been growing at 400% yearly."

"Open-Access Courses: How They CompAre For millions of students worldwide, free, open coursewAre provides A window, if not A front-row seAt, to top university clAsses. The formAts Are As vAried As the people who tune in. Some consist mAinly of lectures recorded on iTunes, while other courses seek to replicAte A clAssroom experience by offering study groups, computer-grAded tests, And weekly Assignments. And while you might get A bAdge or certificAte showing you mAstered the mAteriAl, you generAlly won't get direct interAction with the professor, who mAy hAve recorded the lectures A few yeArs Ago. Here is A look At five introductory economics clAsses: four through open coursewAre And one in A trAditionAl clAssroom. "

"The number of people browsing the Web from a mobile device has more than tripled since 2009, and it is sure to continue growing, with browser platforms such as iOS and android offering mobile browser support that is almost identical to what we have come to expect from a desktop experience. as the mobile consumer market continues to grow, so will the aspirations of individuals and companies who look to embrace what the mobile Web has to offer. With this in mind, many website owners have begun to develop a strategy for providing information and services to their mobile visitors. However, mobile strategies can vary massively from website to website, depending on what the company wants to offer visitors. For example, eBay's strategy will be very different from an individual's strategy for a portfolio website, which might simply be to improve readability for those viewing on a mobile device."

"For a stranger, the main library at the University of Illinois at Chicago can be hard to find. The directions I got from a pair of clerks at the credit union in the student center have proven unreliable. I now find myself adrift among ash trees and drab geometric buildings. Finally, I call for help. Firouzeh Logan, a reference librarian here, soon appears and guides me where I need to go. Several unmarked pathways and an escalator ride later, I am in a private room on the second floor of the library, surrounded by librarians eager to answer my questions."

"After you creAte your syllAbus, go bAck to And tAke A closer look At your leArning outcomes for the course. As you reAd through the outcomes, write A discussion question relAted to eAch outcome. For exAmple, suppose you teAch A politicAl science course And one of your leArning outcomes is, "Students will be Able to discuss current issues in politicAl science informed by populAr mediA And scholArly evidence." Now tAke thAt leArning outcome And write A discussion question. "

"Most Significant Metatrends for the Next 10 Years 1. The world of work is increasingly global and increasingly collaborative. 2. People expect to work, learn, socialize, and play whenever and wherever they want to. 3. The internet is becoming a global mobile network--and already is at its edges. 4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos and rich media. 5. Openness--concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information--is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world. 6. Legal notions of ownership and privacy lag behind the practices common in society. 7. Real challenges of access, efficiency, and scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success. 8. The internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning and education, while refining our notion of literacy. 9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities, and training. 10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing. Excerpts of the 10 top metatrends identified in a Communiqué from the Horizon Project Retreat, January 2012, an NMC Horizon Project publication under Creative Commons attribution license. "

"At A recent retreAt to mArk the tenth AnniversAry of the New MediA Consortium's Horizon Project, which produces An AnnuAl report on technology trends Affecting higher educAtion, pArticipAnts identified 28 importAnt metAtrends. The 10 most significAnt Are: the world of work is increAsingly globAl And increAsingly collAborAtive; people expect to work, leArn, sociAlize, And plAy whenever And wherever they wAnt to; the Internet is becoming A globAl mobile network -- And AlreAdy is At its edges; the technologies we use Are increAsingly cloud-bAsed And delivered over utility networks, fAcilitAting the rApid growth of online videos And rich mediA; openness is moving from A trend to A vAlue for much of the world; legAl notions of ownership And privAcy lAg behind the prActices common in society; reAl chAllenges of Access, efficiency, And scAle Are redefining whAt we meAn by quAlity And success; the Internet is constA ntly chAllenging us to rethink leArning And educAtion, while refining our notion of literAcy; there is A rise in informAl leArning As individuAl needs Are redefining schools, universities, And trAining; And business models Across the educAtion ecosystem Are chAnging"

Teaches you how to replace the calendar in angel with a google calendar.  When you update your google calendar it updates in angel.  You can't make updates to the calendar in angel, it has to be done through Google.  Great if you have multiple sections of the same class--only update once!

Nice find. I used this tool for all my classes and it works great. Now, though, I use that embed code and put the code into a section header in a lessons page. That way it's in the students view the moment the get into the course. Then I hide the calendar tab.

Love this idea! Jeff - do you have a separate google calendar for each course, or do you have one for all your courses? also, I'm interested in using google blogs (blogger) for journals and would like to embed the codes, just as done for google calendar. Have you heard of anyone doing so? I tried changing a tab to a link for a blog, but am not sure if this is the best way. I did see an article in which the instructor had students create their own blog, then submit the link. The links were then put into a chart put into the course. any other ideas?

Ever wonder how much work you actually do in a day? There can be a lot of distractions between meetings, your manager's questions, impromptu pot-lucks and gab fests. Some days it can feel like it's impossible to get anything done. That's because according to Jason Fried it IS. Jason is the co-founder of 37 Signals, a company that builds web-based collaboration tools. He's also the co-author of the bestseller Rework - a book all about how to make work work better. although he himself is a manager, Jason has no problem blaming workplace inefficiencies on meetings and managers. (Runs 22:49)

"Colleges themselves are also finding a need to craft multiple identities online, setting up a different Facebook page and Twitter account for every department or research lab. The University of Virginia's library has 14 Facebook accounts. (One focuses on the science-and-engineering library, another on the fine-arts library, and so on.) Many colleges now count dozens of official Twitter accounts, plus a tangle of pages on Facebook, channels on YouTube, and photo collections on sites like Flickr. In the past year, more colleges have tried to get a handle on their many online identities, crafting social-networking policies and creating a new job position-social-media strategist-to try to bring some sort of order to the chatter."

"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."

"March 21, 2012 Thinking Developmentally: Designing Courses with a Progression of Learning Experiences By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog add Comment Thinking developmentally is one of those instructional design issues that we don't do often enough. We understand that different learning experiences are appropriate for students at different levels. We expect a higher caliber of work from seniors than from those just starting college. But how often do we purposefully design a progression of learning experiences?"

Thinking developmentally is one of those instructional design issues that we don't do often enough. We understand that different learning experiences are appropriate for students at different levels. We expect a higher caliber of work from seniors than from those just starting college. But how often do we purposefully design a progression of learning experiences?

"Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses - known as MOOCs - a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree. and in what some see as a threat to traditional institutions, several of these courses now come with an informal credential (though that, in most cases, will not be free). "

Can you imagine 160,000 students registered in a course?

See also http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/03/06/discussion-of-moocs-more-links-and-questions/ for more info on MOOCs. This link notes the completion rates for some courses.

I have always wanted to have my own blog.  I even tried a book blog once, but I couldn't read fast enough to blog often enough.  There's nothing worse than a blog that is only updated once a month!  Bill Carozza has inspired me to try again, but this time on something I do everyday and professionally.  Check out this article for a few good reasons educators should blog.