Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin
Google today launched a new online education tool called Oppia, currently an open source project with the goal of making it easy for anyone to create onlin
Do you ever feel like you're working hard but not getting anywhere? Maybe you see little improvement in your skills or achievements when you reflect on the last five or 10 years. Or perhaps you struggle to see how you'll fulfil your ambitions during the next few years.
Recognizing the grave consequences for individual opportunity and more generally for our economy and society, the Carnegie Statway ™and Quantway ™Networked Improvement Communities have embraced an audacious goal-to increase from 5 percent to 50 percent the percentage of students who achieve college math credit within one year of continuous enrollment.
As a result of the Carnegie Advancement for Teaching (CAT) work, my college will undergo a pilot program for Fall 2012 where I will be the instructor to achieve college math credit within one year on continuous enrollment.
The Pathways Blog provides information about Carnegie's work to create pathways for student success in developmental education in community colleges and makes connections between Carnegie's work and that of others concerned with student struggle. Even though I follow the pathways blog, there are several more blogs from the foundation and are listed blow:
Whether you're a local student taking occasional online courses or a distant student studying completely online, Parkland's offerings can help you meet your educational goals.
Overview/Introduction
We've been waiting a long time for computers to dramatically change education, but for
the most part, that promise remains unfulfilled. Unlike in the business world, where
the computer quickly became a fixture on every desk and transformed both day-to-day
tasks and the business landscape as a whole, computers have not transformed the goals
of educators, or even the methods used to achieve those goals.
What makes any assessment in education formative is not merely that it precedes summative assessments, but that the performer has opportunities, if results are less than optimal, to reshape the
performance to better achieve the goal. In summative assessment, the feedback comes too late; the performance is over.
Although the universal teacher lament that there's no time for such feedback is understandable, remember that "no time to give and use feedback"
actually means "no time to cause learning." As we have seen, research shows that less teaching plus more
feedback is the key to achieving greater learning. And there are numerous ways—through technology, peers, and other teachers—that students can get
the feedback they need.
This was a very interesting article. I perused the comments and it is very evident that there is still a high degree of skepticism with online education.
Mashable's 5th annual Social Media Day takes place on Monday, June 30, 2014. The goal? It's designed as "a way to recognize the digital revolution happening right before our eyes." This revolution is happening in higher education.
Love that the "practical descriptions of constructivist learning" listed in the article
"[C]onstructivist learning should engage students in meaningful learning and ... the critical features
are that the learning should be ...
* Active and manipulative, engaging students in interactions and explorations with learning materials and provid[ing] opportunities for them to observe the results of their manipulations
* Constructive and reflective, enabling students to integrate new ideas with prior knowledge to make meaning and enable learning through reflection
* Intentional, providing opportunities for students to articulate their learning goals and monitor their progress in achieving them
* Authentic, challenging and real-world (or simulated), facilitating better understanding and transfer of learning to new situations
* Cooperative, collaborative, and conversational, providing students with opportunities to interact with each other to clarify and share ideas, to seek assistance, to negotiate problems, and discuss solutions."
"A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.
All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge."
"With over 3,200 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. " Great examples of video teaching tools for Module 5!
Learn almost anything for free. Our mission is to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. All of our resources are completely free forever, regardless of whether you're a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology.
How can I license my work? There is no registration to use the Creative Commons licenses. Licensing a work is as simple as selecting which of the six licenses best meets your goals, and then marking your work in some way so that others know that you have chosen to release the work under the terms of that license.
UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.
I used this to create a set of flashcards to share among peers. You can access from the web browser, mobile device, and computer or laptop. You can set goals to cover 20 flashcards per day and flag the confidence level.