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Making Common Cause: Electronic Portfolios, Learning, and the Power of Community | Acad... - 0 views

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  • How Eportfolios Help Us All Learn
  • Sue Maberry on 21 Feb 09
     
    "A key element in this transformation is shifting the unit of analysis from the learner in a single course to the learner over time, inside and outside the classroom. "
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New Media Technologies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: A Brief Introducti... - 0 views

www.academiccommons.org/...introduction-issue pedagogy
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  • there has been relatively little interaction between those most interested in new technologies and those invested in the scholarship on teaching and learning.
    • Sue Maberry
      Sue Maberry on 21 Feb 09
       
      To what extent is this true at Otis? I wish we had more time to actually talk about these issues...
  • We need, in short, to merge a culture of inquiry into teaching and learning with a culture of experimentation around new media technologies.
  • to understand better the changing nature of learning in new media environments and the potential of new media environments to make learning--and faculty insights into teaching--visible and usable.
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  • synoptic case study of the Visible Knowledge Project (VKP), a five-year project looking at the impact of technology on learning, primarily in the humanities, through the lens of the scholarship of teaching and learning. 
  • Learning for adaptive expertise: the role of new media in making visible the thinking processes intrinsic to the development of expert-like abilities and dispositions in novice learners; Embodied learning: the impact of new media technologies on the expansion of learning strategies that engage affective as well as cognitive dimensions, renewed forms of creativity and the sensory experience of new media, and the importance of identity and experience as the foundation of intellectual engagement; and Socially Situated learning: the role of social dimensions of new media in creating conditions for authentic engagement and high impact learning.
  • As Michael Wesch puts it in his commentary on the meaning of these changes, “Nothing good will come of these technologies if we do not first confront the crisis of significance and bring relevance back into education.
  • ePortfolios
  • A key element in this transformation is shifting the unit of analysis from the learner in a single course to the learner over time, inside and outside the classroom.
  • Sue Maberry on 21 Feb 09
     
    Introduction to the whole issue which has several excellent essays related to best practices
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