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Whither the Wikis? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 14 Jul 10 - Cached
  • higher education’s relationship with wikis — Web sites that allow users to collectively create and edit content — has been somewhat hot-and-cold
  • tolerance, even appreciation, of Wikipedia as a useful starting point for research
  • using wikis to pool human knowledge of various topics into single, authoritative accounts falls into the “not” category
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  • professoriate is too entrenched in traditional publishing
  • one of two things to happen before wikis can take hold in scholarship
  • “Either senior, post-promotion faculty will need to lead some successful wiki-based projects, or there will need to be an overhaul in the way we think about publication.”
  • highlight individual voices
  • open peer-review — another concept that has struggled to get traction.
  • blogs as a new-media invention that satisfies the scholarly desire for attribution
  • Scholarpedia, meanwhile, only lets selected experts play in its virtual sandboxes, making it more like a traditional journal or encyclopedia than a true wiki
  • Discipline-specific wikis might have an easier time building a community
  • A wiki might also garner more use if it focuses on a relatively young discipline
  • The greatest contributions wikis have made to academic research can be found not in actual wikis but in collaborative tools built on a similar model,
  • “Whether it’s the idea of user-generated content, or inviting many eyes onto a project (e.g., CommentPress), or, tools that facilitate collaboration, such as Google Docs or Zoho Office, wiki-like ideas are increasingly important to the scholarly community.”
  • the areas where they have gotten the most play in higher education seems to be in classrooms and various administrative apparatuses
  • wikis have become popular vehicles for class exercises
  • Vanessa Vaile on 14 Jul 10
     
    on the use and future of wikis in higher ed
Vanessa Vaile

News: Harnessing Social Media - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • There was always more potentially relevant information out in the world than people could ever hope to know. But Twitter, Facebook, social bookmarking sites, and countless other content streams and conversation threads — constantly available in the era of wireless networks and mobile computing — have thrust many in academe into an endless, unwinnable race to keep up.
  • At a session on Friday here at the Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, called “Managing the Flow of Information,” a roomful of higher ed technologists commiserated about the information assault and discussed how to figure out what information to ignore without abnegating their obligation to stay current.
  • While some instructors might take the sight of students typing on keyboards and smartphones as a sign of chronic inattention, the authors of this study take it as the opposite.
Vanessa Vaile

News: Technologically Illiterate Students - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 17 Jul 10 - Cached
  • definition of technological literacy needs updating. In the 1990s, she explained, the U.S. Education Department defined it to mean the ability to operate a computer. These days, computers are so user-friendly that being capable of operating one does not say much about a person’s competence.
  • a line between computer users who can handle only basic programs such as word processors and search engines, and those who understand the structures and concepts that underlie modern technology, and how to think critically within them
  • less about who has hardware, but who has access to information; who has those problem-solving skills
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  • sumption that today’s student are computer-literate because they are “digital natives” is a pernicious
  • task-specific tech savvy
  • tech-skeptical
  • not mean tech-negative
  • critical capacity to glean the implications, and limitations, of technologies as they emerge and become woven in
  • Arguing that there should be new standards for tech literacy and that most students don’t meet them implies a third piece -- one that is likely to make course designers hem and haw: You need to teach them.
  • instructors might try to do their best to integrate discussions that might improve students’ tech literacy into existing units in the syllabus
  • more collaborative work
  • source-checking websites
  • real-world examples to support their idea
  • meta-discussions about the limitations of technological tools
  • ethical use of technology
  • filtering the pertinent from the misleading
  • critical thinking skills that enable them to use various technologies wisely
Vanessa Vaile

Blog U.: Online Education and Blogging - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 26 Jan 10 - Cached
  • For conference presentations or article submissions there is no substitute for invested time in reflection, writing, and re-writing. For blogging - well it goes on the page as it goes through the brain.The best preparation I received for blogging was teaching online. One of the most important elements for running a successful online course involves presence. The instructor must be "present" in the course discussion boards and blogs. Teaching online gave me tons of practice in writing rapid, hopefully thought provoking, discussion and blog posts around the curriculum and the student's work
Vanessa Vaile

Blog U.: Reforming Higher Education: To What End? - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 24 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Vanessa Vaile on 24 Aug 11
     
    column by Lee Skellerup Bessette on problems of change in higher ed, educators vs accountability by analytics & design by algorithm
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