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Cole Camplese

Disrupting College - 0 views

  • rcentage of our citizens—many from low-income, African-American, and Hispanic families. The institutions are now increasingly beset by financial difficulties, and the recent financial meltdown is but a shadow of what is to come. The further looming state budget crises spell difficult times for many colleges and universities. And there is a growing acknowledgement that many American universities’ prestige came not from being the best at educating, but from being the best at research and from being selective and accepting the best and brightest—which all institutions have mimicked.
  • The institutions are now increasingly beset by financial difficulties, and the recent financial meltdown is but a shadow of what is to come. The further looming state budget crises spell difficult times for many colleges and universities. And there is a growing acknowledgement that many American universities’ prestige came not from being the best at educating, but from being the best at research and from being selective and accepting the best and brightest—which all institutions have mimicked.
Cole Camplese

Penn State Live - Devastating appropriation cut advanced for Penn State - 0 views

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    If this doesn't paint a picture where teaching and learning with technology isn't critical I don't know what does.  Our collective challenge is to think about how we approach this moment as an opportunity.
Cole Camplese

Higher education: Is it really the next bubble? | The Economist - 6 views

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    Interesting surface level exploration of the edu bubble.
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    this came up in conversations with friends last week. I have my own opinions on the value of non-education people seemingly always claiming to have answers to very complex, deeply entrenched societal issues (like k12 & higher ed), but I'll try to keep from editorializing too much. I will say that one of the convincing arguments I have heard recently was the view of higher education as a commodity in a positional marketplace; in other words, colleges compete based upon reputation and relative position to one another. when seen that way, it makes more sense why money brought into the college is not spent to keep tuition costs down; colleges have to try and outdo their peers with facilities, expansion, etc. as a result, tuition rises. finally, as mentioned in the article, if the positional argument is to be believed, it may make sense to see higher ed as a tiered structure (it already is this way in reality), and concerns about tuition increases might be focused on how we can help ensure that state-funded schools resist the temptation of entering into budget arms races with elite-level privates.
gary chinn

Reverse Instruction: Dan Pink and Karl's "Fisch Flip" | Connected Principals - 4 views

  • If kids can get the lectures, can get the content delivery and skill modeling as well (or often better) by computer lecture than in person, why do we have use precious class-time for this purpose?  Why do we, in the status quo,  replicate in person in our classrooms what is easily available elsewhere, the content delivery/skill modeling, and then have kids apply their learning to difficult problems at home, without us there to help? Increasingly,  education’s value-add is and will be in the coaching and troubleshooting when students are applying their learning, and in challenging students to apply their thinking to hands-on learning by doing and teaming:  so let’s have them do these things in class, not sit and listen.   We know that collaboration is a critical skill set which can’t be developed easily either on-line or at home alone– let’s have students learn it with us in our classrooms.   Let every classroom be a collaborative problem solving laboratory or studio.
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    not a new article, but I just found it. I think these kinds of strategies are good to have in mind when thinking through implications of lecture capture. "classroom flip" is one example, and a different spin on one that the Blended Learning Initiative at PSU explored; in this case, instruction would be delivered via video instead of text/graphics web pages, but the goal of freeing classroom time is the same.
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    That's one of the problems that we're having with the "lecture capture" term. In some of the scenarios that Chris Millet is putting together, faculty would be using the personal capture features to prepare learning materials for students (short bursts) and then use classroom time for discussion/debate/problems/group work. So then the question becomes how we design classrooms (or learning spaces or studios, labs, etc...) to support that kind of activity.
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    has great potential for mid-week short example problems or "muddiest point" videos as well. it seems like an important part of the roll-out would be communicating the possibilities beyond the straight lecture capture, many of which we've probably not thought of yet.
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    Agreed there. I don't think we should even label it "lecture capture" if we can avoid that term. By the way, we are always looking for good Symposium speakers. If you happen to see someone who you think would be good to bring to a Penn State audience, the planning group would like to hear about it. Most of the ones we've had in the past few years have had a nice blend of an academic background, innovative thinking, understanding of cultural trends, have written popular books, and have excellent speaking skills. Dan Pink may be two into the workplace motivation side of things, but maybe not.
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    I think pink's an interesting guy & good writer. we actually emailed his reps when we were planning an innovation & engineering workshop because his book "drive" talks a good deal about mastery and that was a topic we were interested in. but the quote we received was ~$45k, which was over 3 times our speaker budget. who knows, though, he might have an ed discount. :) I always found esther hargittai's work to be very interesting, though she is perhaps too 'academic' for the purposes of the symposium.
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    Yeah - no - that's a bit high. I'm not sure that he's the best choice anyway. Maybe we just buy some copies of his book instead.
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    I certainly don't envy the symposium planning group; it's a diverse audience, so finding a speaker who resonates with most attendees seems like a daunting task. as for the book, a few friends have told me that pink's 20 minute ted talk has pretty much everything that's in the book, save some examples. very interesting topic, though. would be good fodder for a 'book club' discussion. the other book that might be good for a group read is digital habitats: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Habitats-stewarding-technology-communities/dp/0982503601/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304001207&sr=1-1 there's info in there about communities of practice & technology stewardship that I really liked. who knows, perhaps Etienne Wenger could be an intriguing potential speaker? FYI, I have an extra copy of the book in my cube if anyone wants to borrow it.
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