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Demetri Orlando

The Scale of the Universe 2 - 2 views

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    zoom from the universe to sub-atomic particles
Sarah Hanawald

Apostrophes and Philosophy: Postcards from the Ivory Tower | The Line - 0 views

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education research

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  • Let’s make it an institutional priority to talk on an ongoing basis to any university researcher who can help us teach better.”
  • Sarah Hanawald on 25 Apr 08
     
    Discusses the research at the university and school connection that is so often missing. Short of making sure a certain % of teachers are in grad school in any given year, what can we do?
susan carter morgan

Top News - Tech encourages students' social skills - 0 views

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independent research teaching

shared by susan carter morgan on 25 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Well-integrated technology opens social networks for students and allows children to develop key social skills, according to two recent studies conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bill Campbell

Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - 0 views

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vhsnotes1-5 vhs-bp-oet blendedlearning education onlinelearning

shared by Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Lessons Learned from the Hybrid Course Project
  • Lesson #1: There is no standard approach to a hybrid course.
  • Lesson #2: Redesigning a traditional course into a hybrid takes time.
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  • he broke his content presentations into less than ten minute streaming video clips, and he interspersed his mini-lectures with student-centered problem-solving activities.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      As I was reviewing information from Brain Rules to confirm my recollection about the 10 minute rule, I found the following quote from Medina that also seems signficant with regard to a possible hybrid course advantage. He says the most common communication mistake is "relating too much information with not enough time devoted to connecdting the dots. Lots of force feeding, very little digestion." Might this be an advantage of presenting information online in a content-heavy course? Maybe the logistics of breaking up a 45 minute period that don't work well face-to-face might work better by presenting some content online. My gut says yet, but I'd like to see real examples of this.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      This is interesting because it is consistent with the research report in the book Brain Rules by John Medina. Brain Rules reported that students attention in a class drops a significant amount after 10 minutes and that you need to change gears to get another 10 minutes. So breaking up a video lecture into 10 minutes segments seperated by releveant problem sovling fits right in with that.
  • Hybrid instructors should allow six months lead time for course development.
  • Lesson #3: Start small and keep it simple.
  • "Integrate online with face-to-face, so there aren't two separate courses."
  • "The emphasis is on pedagogy, not technology. Ask yourself what isn't working in your course that can be done differently or better online."
  • Lesson #4: Redesign is the key to effective hybrid courses to integrate the face-to-face and online learning.
  • , instructors need to make certain that the time and resources required to create a hybrid course are available before they commit to the process.
  • Students need to have strong time management skills in hybrid courses, and many need assistance developing this skill.
    • Bill Campbell
      Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
       
      Participation in an online course might be an authentic way to provide high-school (and maybe older middle-school) students the opportunity to practice time management skills in an authentic way. However, this would need to be handled carfully so students who are not successful at first are not completey lost or so far behind that they can't be successful later after learning from their mistakes.
  • Contrary to many instructors' initial concerns, the hybrid approach invariably increases student engagement and interactivity in a course.
  • Lesson #6: Students don't grasp the hybrid concept readily.
  • Lesson #5: Hybrid courses facilitate interaction among students, and between students and their instructor.
  • Surprisingly, many of the students don't perceive time spent in lectures as "work", but they definitely see time spent online as work, even if it is time they would have spent in class in a traditional course.
  • Lesson #7: Time flexibility in hybrid courses is universally popular.
  • Lesson #8: Technology was not a significant obstacle.
  • Lesson #9: Developing a hybrid course is a collegial process.
  • Lesson #10: Both the instructors and the students liked the hybrid course model.
  • They stated that the hybrid model improved their courses because Student interactivity increased, Student performance improved, and They could accomplish course goals that hadn't been possible in their traditional course.
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    Teaching with Technology Today: Volume 8, Number 6: March 20, 2002
  • Bill Campbell on 31 Jan 12
     
    This article about the lessons learned during a higher-ed blended learning project is a decade old but still interesting and relevant.
Demetri Orlando

Robert Paterson's Weblog: The Rise of the Old Academy from the ashes of the University? - 1 views

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    the only thing schools really need to do these days is help kids find their brilliance and nurture them to act on it. Anything else is just mucking things up
Jason Ramsden

CASTLE - Home - 0 views

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Administrators Technology Leadership

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    CASTLE is the nation's only center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators. In addition to our highly-acclaimed School Technology Leadership graduate program, we also help other university educational leadership programs prepare technology-savvy school leaders and provide numerous resources for K-12 administrators and the faculty that prepare them.
susan carter morgan

A New Type of University Writing Course - 0 views

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university writing

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    When I tell people I'm a writing professor, I see first-hand how their anxieties about grammar instruction and the "red pen" live on years after their experiences with freshman composition have ended. When talking about what I do, people start clarifying their diction, altering their grammar, even avoiding eye contact.
Jason Ramsden

YouTube - Kaplan University Desks TV - 0 views

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NCAIS virtual

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    A Kaplan University commercial that speaks about "Desks TV"; school that fits in your life and adapts to how you learn.
Demetri Orlando

Sustainability » Boston University - 0 views

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sustainability

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    cool animation about Boston University's environmental impact.
Jason Ramsden

Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds - New Yo... - 0 views

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  • “I think in the future, capitalization will disappear,” said Professor Sterling, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. In fact, he said, when his teenage son asked what the presence of the capital letter added to what the period at the end of the sentence signified, he had no answer.
    • Jason Ramsden
      Jason Ramsden on 30 Apr 08
       
      What a powerful prognostication...
susan carter morgan

University Woos Freshmen by Putting Them in Ads : NPR - 0 views

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  • High school seniors seem to love the idea of being treated like celebrities.
susan carter morgan

The Chronicle: 6/2/2006: The Fight for Classroom Attention: Professor vs. Laptop - 0 views

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distraction laptops

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  • At other times, she uses the wireless Internet access in the college's classrooms to do some online shopping or chat using instant messenger. "If it's material that I know, most of the time I will surf the Internet a little bit," says Ms. Mei, a junior.
  • "They claim that they're taking notes — and they may well be," he says. "But it still is annoying."
  • "A couple of them have said, 'I don't have any paper,'" says Mr. Aylesworth. He had them borrow some from classmates.
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  • "I'd say banning laptops or shutting off wireless on demand is like throwing the baby out with the bathwater," says Brian D. Voss, chief information officer at the university. "Both are draconian solutions to a problem that requires something a bit more diplomatic."
susan carter morgan

100 Niche Search Engines Every College Student Needs | Online Universities - 2 views

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scholar searches

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    links to scholarly searches
Demetri Orlando

TEDxNYed: Jeff Jarvis: This is BS - 0 views

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tedxnyed

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  • Just as journalists must become more curator than creator, so must educators.
  • we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities.
  • Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.
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  • “In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book,
  • We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers.
  • Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company
  • Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability?
  • education serves a unique role in society of preparing individuals for the “vital combat for lucidity”.
  • Demetri Orlando on 09 Mar 10
     
    Jeff Jarvis's notes for his presentation at TEDxNYed in which he critiques the TED style as perpetuating the sage on the stage.
Jason Ramsden

YouTube - YourTime60 - 0 views

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NCAIS virtual

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  • Jason Ramsden on 07 Aug 09
     
    A Kaplan University commercial that speaks about "YourTime"; the students time and the fact that talent is everywhere, not just in schools.
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