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Harvey Shaw

Training Magazine's 2012 Salary Survey for Corporate Training - 0 views

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  • Harvey Shaw on 06 Dec 12
     
    Results of a 2012 survey on salaries in the corporate training field.
Steve Henderson

School Reform for Realists - 0 views

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technology education

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  • Steve Henderson on 08 Dec 12
     
    Lessons learned from Cisco's experience indicate that business-education partnerships should: * Be set up so that all aspects of the project are transparent to outsiders, even if corporations profit from the R&D * Foster experimentation, because it is not always clear in advance which ideas and projects will work best * Establish in-depth training for every new technology, with businesspeople and educators learning from each other
Roshanak Razavi

University of Phoenix to Shutter 115 Locations - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...ix-to-close-115-locations.html

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  • Roshanak Razavi on 20 Oct 12
     
    This article on the NYT is timely with one of the reading articles assigned for this week - "Disrupting College".
  • hlarson728 on 22 Oct 12
     
    Speaking of For-Profit institutions, check out this scathing review: Corporate U: Higher Ed the Bain Way, Part 2: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/21/1143219/-Corporate-U-Higher-ed-the-Bain-Way-part-2
Daniel Melia

Valve, a Video Game Maker With Few Rules - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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game maker augmented reality

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  • Daniel Melia on 09 Sep 12
     
    A leading game maker is, among other things, dedicating resources toward education games. It's also worth noting, I think, that a company that rejects typical corporate structure might be a good one for disrupting typical education structures.
Maung Nyeu

Hewlett Packard's Corporate Global Vision | Fast Company - 0 views

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Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 educational_technology online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 19 Jan 12
     
    Hewlett Packard, Inc. started a global initiative to make the best use of technology to advance STEM.
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

MOOC education technology learning educational_technology online

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Allison Gevarter

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS Receive Ready To Learn Grant Funding fr... - 1 views

www.prnewswire.com/...nt-of-education-105023934.html

funding education technology

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  • Allison Gevarter on 18 Oct 10
     
    There could be some real potential here for use of grants beyond the television screen. I'd be interested to track how this money is allocated across platforms, especially emerging ones like apps for phones/iPads.
Michelle Chung

The Largest Global E-Learning Conference - 0 views

www.online-educa.com

technology public_sector elearning conference corporate_training

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  • Michelle Chung on 20 Dec 09
     
    2009 Conference for corporate training and professional development for public sectors.
Chris Dede

Digg's Recent Bans and the Limits of Crowdsourcing - 4 views

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Digg crowdsourcing Web 2 investor influence

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  • Chris Dede on 09 Oct 09
     
    A fascinating description about how corporate pressures can undermine the "crowdsourcing" model
  • Niko Cunningham on 09 Oct 09
     
    Article written for mashable by our own classmate Dave Chen. Good work!
Tomoko Matsukawa

Digital classrooms move deeper into India - 0 views

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t561 digital classroom corporations india chid-centered access

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 25 Sep 12
     
    Big companies like Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) are involved. Affordability is made high through 3-5yr contract with monthly payments. ''Child centric concepts'' are widely being accepted the article says. The challenge they mention here is internet connectivity. No mention about PD or reaction from parents. Also there seem to be still a wide gap in access between private schools and public schools there. 
Sunanda V

Idaho Voters Repeal Online Learning, Performance-Pay Measures - 1 views

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1-to-1 online education graduation politics technology voting

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  • Hannah Lesk on 08 Nov 12
     
    Voters in Idaho voted 2:1 to repeal a RTTT-inspired state law that would have brought 1:1 laptop programs to all high schools and required all students to take 2 online or blended courses in order to graduate from high school. The public felt that the law would have "diverted taxpayer dollars to technology corporations and marginalized teachers."
  • Sunanda V on 15 Nov 12
     
    Idaho voted down several education measures including one to require participation in an online course before high school graduation and a shift to 1-to-1 computing in schools.
Jeffrey Siegel

How to boost educational modernization processes through the teacher figure - 0 views

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Intel teacher new educational model.

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 18 Sep 12
     
    Interesting site from Intel. The banner reads "Preparing Students for 21st Century Success." The intersection of corporations and education.
Chris McEnroe

Teachers praised for ICT innovations | Voxy.co.nz - 0 views

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  • Chris McEnroe on 28 Nov 11
     
    I wonder if it's good to have large corporations like Microsoft giving awards to teachers. I have no reason to doubt Julia Breen's work but Microsoft is not in the teaching business. I can't see teacher's giving computer engineers awards for excellent computer engineering.
Maung Nyeu

The Mackinac Center: Outdated thinking stands in the way of online learning | Detroit F... - 3 views

www.freep.com/...ing-stands-way-online-learning

Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 28 Nov 11
     
    In the US, 250000 students are enrolled in full-time public virtual schools in 30 states, according to Susan Patrick of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, a trade association. Although that's just a fraction of the country's 50 million students, it has grown 30% each year. Some schools in Michigan already shown the advantage of digital learning.
  • Stephen Bresnick on 28 Nov 11
     
    This is an interesting article. I am just concerned that it is not unbiased or driven by an agenda other than improving education. I found this information about the Mackinac Center online: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mackinac-center-public-policy I am starting to realize that a lot of the technology in schools rhetoric is driven by corporate and political interests, and as the industry becomes ever more profitable, I'm worried that companies are going to jump in and try to influence policy, rushing through the movement toward the wrong kind of technology in schools- i.e. sacking half of the teaching staff and replacing them with cheap computers. I think one of our most important jobs as Harvard TIE students is to education the public about the right ways to adapt technology in the classroom, and the important role that teachers will continue to play in this movement.
Uche Amaechi

networkleadershipskills » Leading_Organization - 0 views

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  • Openness: overall open attitude toward sharing, networking and transparency. 2. Peering: removing corporate command and control hierarchies and promoting self-organization.
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
       
      Openness is a disposition. Peering can be a skill, disposition, or as posited here, a structural affordance, or obstacle presented by the institution.
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      Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
       
      test
  • Those in formal leadership roles must set a tone for building trust and working together through authentic collaboration
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
       
      Trust and collaboration. Trust is definitely a disposition; collaboration can be both a disposition (to want to collaborate, because of trust and otherwise) and a skill
  • In describing Roca’s organizational shift, executive director Molly Baldwin pointed to peace circles as a defined space where staff can find common ground and “where we can see the world together” (personal communication, February 20, 2009).
    • Uche Amaechi
      Uche Amaechi on 27 Aug 09
       
      This would argue that collaboration and sharing is a skill. But is it a skill alone? Obviously you can influence people's dispositions. But does knowing whether you're trying to teach/influence a disposition or a skill make you a more effective leader?
Devon Dickau

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

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higher education college students classrooms technology education international

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  • 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.
Margaret O'Connell

Hackerspaces - breeding grounds for disruption? - 1 views

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Hackerspaces

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  • One of the most important things about hackerspaces, and an area that differentiates it from other areas in the tech industry, is that most of the ideas and projects aren’t designed for any type of financial return. And unlike academic research labs, hackerspaces are usually very hands-on and focused on practical implementation. In Tokyo Hackerspace, we have a lot of projects or project ideas that revolve around environmental or humanitarian applications of technology as well as art. These types of projects would rarely see the light of day in corporate scenarios (without government subisidies) but are often
  • types of projects that, when further refined, may turn into something that is financially viable or lay the groundwork for something much bigger. 
Brigham Hall

Technology Institute for Music Educators - 0 views

www.ti-me.org

Music technology education

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  • Brigham Hall on 24 Nov 09
     
    The Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME) is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to assist music educators in applying technology to improve teaching and learning in music. I've been a member and supporter for a while. Worth checking out
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