'Laura B.' was almost certainly Laura Bailey, the daughter of William Shreve Bailey (1806-1886) of Campbell County, a Kentucky mechanic and abolitionist. He published the Newport News (est. 1839), the Kentucky Weekly News (1851-1858), and The Free South (1858-1866).
Randy Bass, Assistant Provost and English prof, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), Georgetown University
worked with Malcoml Brown (Director of ELI) on Evidence of Impact project - "what are the conditions for the most meaningful learning inside and outside the formal curriculum?" and "How do emerging digital tools make it possible to see and capture evidence of meaningful learning in new ways?"
Post-Course Era = end of self-contained course at center of curric
Creating the world's biggest study group - a Univ of KY student Tore Lindeman share his notes from PSY 100 Lab from Summer 2010 - he is also a big contributor to GradeGuru this spring for his MA109 course
4 Steps that Chris Rice also uses in his EADs at UK:
Meet (are we listening? reach out to students to understand their learning preferences and motivations for taking a course)
Show (did we do it? develop learning solutions based on today's students and validate through interative process to ensure ideal product mix)
Test (do you like it? gain faculty approval to finalize the product and content mix specific to each discipline)
Work (are you in? publish the student-tested, faculty-approved teaching and learning solution)
Rest (are you kidding? our research never ends, continual feedback from students ensures that we keep up with their changing needs)
"MindTap - array of digital products and services LMS agnostic with "MindApps" to go across learning platforms - portability and customization by individual students as well as faculty
Find the free stuff here - free Online Student Centers; Companion Sites; eLibraries; Online Writing, Assessment and Skill sites as well as video tool kids
A study published recently in Business Education Digest (Keith, Perreault, and Chin 2009) explores students' perceptions of how prevalent and consequential ethical questions are in the business world. Surveys of business students at a midwestern university revealed that while 83 percent of students either "agree" or "strongly agree" that "situations where ethics may be called into question are frequently encountered in business," students underrate the ethical consequence of several potential conflicts....they found that women were more likely than men to believe that personal ethics and corporate behaviors should align and that ethics are essential to success.... women and men shared similar and relatively lax beliefs about what kinds of disciplinary action are appropriate, reinforcing the researchers' beliefs that more ethics education is necessary for business students.
"Goblin Threat" in Flash by Snowden Library, Academic Center (570) 321-4053
Credits: The Goblin Threat game was created by Mary Broussard with assitance on question writing from Jessica Urich. Inspiration came from Dream Chronicles (available for purchase), and escape games such as Escape Artist. Almost all sound effects from Free Sound Project... see more at http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/gtCredits.html
hmmmm - seems more like an illustrated quiz than a game to me
Great approach to helping instructors understand some basic issues of student privacy and the role of social media. This kind of argument might encourage people to assign the use of (and contribution to) open educational resources. "FERPA was never intended to place students into the box of a physical or online classroom to prevent them from learning from the public."
IU's IT VP and college CIOs "Information and Infrastructure Assurance" with the University Information Policy Office - including communication campaigns for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Filesharing at UI - great website with resources/info