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What you can do, Tips for Faculty in Higher Education

Tips on making e-books for online learning.

What a great way to customize the reading assignments and resources for students in our online courses. This seems like it could also save money on textbook costs for our students.

Take a look at Piazza to host course related Q/A sessions. Thinking about follow up after guest skype interviews. Carol H

See the Guide to Using Twitter in university, research, teaching, and impact activities. Carol H @ltaparaprof

The faculty at my college have been discussing this current article that discusses how "at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years." To read Part 2 of the article copy and paste this link into the URL: http://chronicle.com/article/A-Perfect-Storm-in/126969/

Institutions of higher education have witnessed a proliferation of online courses in the past several decades. Culture and the impact of it must be considered.

6 universities participating to crete a database that measures 33 variables for the online coursework of 640,000 students - tracks student performance and retention across demographics.

Here's an idea about e-mail you might find useful with students.

Diigo Group lists built from scratch by subject experts could yield low cost-alternatives to old-fashioned texts as suggested in this Wired Campus article.

Some good principles to think about here.

A new study argues that American academic institutions expect a level of independence that is uncomfortable for many first-generation college students, who researchers say are more likely to come from poorer backgrounds that emphasize collaboration and interdependence.

Kolowich, S. (2012) Who takes MOOCs? Inside Higher Education, June 5 Article about a survey of 14,000 participants in Stanford's Andrew Ng's course on machine learning. It should be noted that the response rate is around 14% of all those that enrolled. The most common reason was that participants were curious about the topic. NOTE from poster - take a look at Coursera as well.

Grade Change - Tracking Online Education in the United State - 2013 The eleventh annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group, with data collection conducted in partnership with the College Board.

I know that most of the members of this group work in higher education. Some of us work in teacher preparation programs and need resources for K-12 teachers. I've found Edutopia to be a reliable resource. Their Technology Blogs have some thoughtful ideas that will help learners at the college level.

This essay describes some of the most cost-effective and appropriate ways to use computers, video, and telecommunications technologies to advance the Seven Principles.

by Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann "Since the Seven Principles of Good Practice were created in 1987, new communication and information technologies have become major resources for teaching and learning in higher education. If the power of the new technologies is to be fully realized, they should be employed in ways consistent with the Seven Principles. Such technologies are tools with multiple capabilities; it is misleading to make assertions like "Microcomputers will empower students" because that is only one way in which computers might be used." This article originally appeared in print as: Chickering, Arthur and Stephen C. Ehrmann (1996), "Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever," AAHE Bulletin, October, pp. 3-6.

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.