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Mirza Ramic

A Manifesto for Active Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Mirza Ramic on 03 Oct 13
     
    Great read on cultivating active learning, including the role of technology (though not transformative technology) in the classroom. Talks about engaging the more "shy" / deeply thinking students in class via Twitter chat - "smart students like to talk, smarter students like to listen."
Devon Dickau

Classroom iPad Programs Get Mixed Response - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • At those early-adopter schools, iPads are competing with MacBooks as the students' go-to gadget for note taking and Web surfing.
  • the iPad's technological limitations—its inability to multitask and print, and its limited storage space—have kept students dependent on their notebooks. "That's the problem with the iPad: It's not an independent device,
  • really excited about the technology but have not been "pushing the capabilities" of the device.
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  • Seton Hill University, which gave iPads to all full-time students, are working with the developers of an e-book app called Inkling to come up with new ways to integrate the iPad into classroom instruction
  • he faculty at Indiana University has formed a 24-member focus group to evaluate iPad-driven teaching strategies.
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Sep 10
     
    What about providing students iPads so that they purchase textbooks on these devices to save resources for both the students and the school? Can we assume that all students will be comfortable using an iPad, or might there be implications for students with learning differences? What about the socioeconomic gap for students who cannot afford a computer to LOAD the books onto their iPads (even if the iPads themselves were provided)?
Devon Dickau

'Chalk and Talk' Colleges Are Challenged by India's Company Classrooms - Technology - T... - 0 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The most high-tech classrooms in India are not at a university but at a technology company's training facility.
  • To make up for those perceived deficiencies, Indian companies spent more than $1-billion last year on corporate-training programs for new employees, according to an industry group that has been pushing for change at universities.
  • Each classroom bears the name of a famous innovator—Archimedes, J.P. Morgan, Steve Jobs. In a morning class in the Benjamin Franklin classroom, I observed about 100 students learning the Unix programming language. Each seat had its own PC, and most students had opened a copy of the instructor's PowerPoint presentation and followed along on their own screen, sometimes scrolling back to see what they had missed, sometimes looking ahead.
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  • The trainees, called "freshers" because they are fresh out of college,
  • The trainees said that their undergraduate teaching had been delivered mostly in chalk-and-talk form, with the professor lecturing at the front of the classroom. A few professors had tried PowerPoint, they said, but even that was unusual.
  • "More technology would have meant a lot more knowledge."
  • It turns out, how wired the classrooms are is not the point—the style of teaching is much slower to change than the gear in the rooms.
  • Devon Dickau on 05 Oct 10
     
    Indian college classrooms have not integrated technology into learning and teaching, so private companies - teaching the skills needed to perform in their specific career paths - are taking the lead, showing that universities need to catch up.
Devon Dickau

One Step Closer to a National Digital Library - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 07 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Can the nonprofit world create a national digital library to put America's collective intellectual wealth within everyone's reach?
  • the idea of "a Digital Public Library of America," envisioning it as "an open, distributed network of comprehensive online resources" drawn from the country's libraries, archives, museums, and universities.
  • the biggest obstacle to the Digital Public Library, in his view, is not money but "finding our way through our baroque copyright laws," especially those that govern so-called orphan works, whose copyright status is unclear.
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  • It didn't take long for people there to arrive at a conclusion, which is: We can do it.
Devon Dickau

New College Networks, Unlike Facebook, Connect 'Social' to Studies - Technology - The C... - 4 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 16 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Universities are turning to social networking to create online learning communities that mix serious academic work, and connections among working scholars, with Facebook-style fun.
  • write and share blogs, join subject groups, and participate in academic discussions
  • "You may not want to friend your dean on Facebook, but you still want to be connected to your dean
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  • open for user input, allowing it to evolve over time
Chris Dede

The Future of Predictive Analytics in Higher Ed - 1 views

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shared by Chris Dede on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Chris Dede on 18 Sep 12
     
    This is the easy part of predictive analytics - the hard part is those aspects related to learning.
Chris Dede

Gates and Hewlett Foundations Focus on Online Learning - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Chris Dede on 12 Oct 10
     
    Gates funding higher ed tech
Jeffrey Siegel

Charting the Tech-tonic Shifts in Education -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 27 Sep 12
     
    speakers painted a picture of higher education undergoing a seismic shift--and offered a vision for the future.
Jennifer Bartecchi

Apple Profiles the of Hands-On Tech in Educational Settings - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Bartecchi on 10 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 10 Sep 12
     
    In this feature, Apple profiles HOW their products are used in a variety of educational settings. It's one of the least 'promotion-based' sites I've seen from Apple in awhile... Typically, I'm cynical when a company "profiles" its own products; however, this one is done fairly well. This site could be a helpful model when attempting to demonstrate functional use of a product, highlighting the ends, not the means...
  • Matthew Ong on 11 Sep 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this link! I know that there are some schools which have bought iPads and then didn't know what they were going to do with them. This community obviously had a clear idea of how to use them, what problems they were going to solve and how to assess their outcomes. Nice!
James Glanville

A 'Moneyball' Approach to College - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

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shared by James Glanville on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • James Glanville on 17 Dec 11
     
    Brian Lukoff, a Technology & Education Postdoc Fellow working with Eric Mazur, just sent me this article which discusses their new ed tech startup Learning Catalytics.  It's the evolution of the Eric's clicker supported Peer Instruction.  I'm meeting with Brian and Eric on Tuesday to setup a TIE spring internship doing business development for Learning Catalytics.
Mirza Ramic

Have MOOCs hurt public perception of online education? (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Mirza Ramic on 13 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Mirza Ramic on 13 Dec 13
     
    "The advent of this so-called "lousy product" - the MOOC - may be triggering a change, however. Indeed, recent survey evidence suggests that the acceptance of online learning among certain constituencies may be plateauing. Is it possible that a backlash against MOOCs could even precipitate a decline in the broader acceptance of online learning?"
Harley Chang

As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry - 0 views

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shared by Harley Chang on 01 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Harley Chang on 01 Nov 13
     
    Is the rise of technology the downfall of humanities? The article also talks a bit about new tech tools used in humanities classes on page 2.
  • Josh Tappan on 01 Nov 13
     
    I thought it was interesting to note the shift in focus and interest from a broad "knowledge-based" education to a "career readiness" and skills-based education over the past 10 or so years (probably due to the recession) from students AND higher ed. institutions. Do you think this shift is from student demand for more "practical" majors in STEM fields or policy/institution push to enroll more students in STEM majors?
Uche Amaechi

Web 2.0: Good for Education? -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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  •  - Gap between upper-echelon institutions that are able to adapt to Web 2.0 trends and the rest of higher education
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      Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
       
      I'd argue that mass production schools like phoenix are leading the on-line charge in education, embracing web 2.0 and other technologies to better compete against the old guard and other younger institutions. Sure the old guard have more resources, but are they reaching more students? Will they always have more resources?
Devon Dickau

Cal State Bans Students From Using Online Note-Selling Service - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Devon Dickau on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • selling their class notes online
  • NoteUtopia is meant to function as an online community where students can share information, discuss courses and rate professors - a supplement to, not a replacement for, offline education
  • levels the playing field
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  • Indeed, the provision of the state education code does some raise questions about intellectual property and the ownership of ideas and course content. If the students don't own their class-notes - or at least, cannot sell them commercially - who does? The professor? The university? The state?
  • Devon Dickau on 21 Oct 10
     
    Interesting article about how technology is changing the way we define and share intellectual property. Is a professor's lecture the property of the professor, the University or neither? Does a student "own" the notes he takes in class?
Cole Shaw

Featured on UC Irvine's Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center - 0 views

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shared by Cole Shaw on 24 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Cole Shaw on 24 Sep 12
     
    UC Irvine's TLTC frontpage linked to this archived Google presentation on how teachers can use Google apps in Higher Education. Almost felt sales-pitchy and I wondered how much time and energy faculty are willing to invest in configuring and setting that stuff up for their own class, as opposed to using whatever the university's IT team has set up and standardized around.
Sunanda V

How 10 Colleges Are Using Game-Based Learning Right Now - 2 views

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shared by Sunanda V on 14 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Bartecchi on 14 Oct 12
     
    Game-Based Learning in higher education...
  • Matthew Ong on 14 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this Jennifer. I wonder how how transferable these skills are from games to reality. Apart from the motivation and engagement factor, I think research is still inconclusive about the actual benefits of gaming. Any thoughts on such transfer? Thanks for sharing again!
Jason Hammon

Can Higher Education be fixed? The Innovative University - 3 views

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  • Jason Hammon on 12 Nov 12
     
    A look at C. Christensen's book on the Innovative University.
Sunanda V

Antioch U. Will Offer MOOC's for Credit Through Coursera - The Ticker - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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shared by Sunanda V on 16 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Sunanda V on 16 Nov 12
     
    I think it's curious that you're having universities like Antioch and others that are including MOOC courses as for credit options without any kind of evaluation or data on the actual efficacy of MOOCs, let alone specific classes.
  • Cole Shaw on 17 Nov 12
     
    My understanding of the pilot program is that students will still have faculty-led components, though, so it's not purely MOOC. It's more like a blended-learning environment that uses the MOOC as the digital part. So the students will have Antioch exams and homework sets, discussions, etc. If they are satisfied with the efficacy after the pilot, then they will expand the model.
Chris Dede

Community Colleges Try MOOCs in Blended Courses -- Campus Technology - 1 views

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  • Chris Dede on 04 Dec 12
     
    moving towards new models in higher education
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