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Chris Millet

Governing Boards Turn to Technology to Reinvent the University - Leadership & Governanc... - 0 views

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shared by Chris Millet on 06 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Eduardo M. Ochoa, assistant secretary for postsecondary education at the U.S. Department of Education, said at a panel session on Monday that "less labor-intensive" instruction methods will be required to increase the nation's number of college graduates. He conceded that technology presents upfront costs for colleges. But, he said, "eventually, the way things are done becomes qualitatively different."
  • While the course redesigns differ from campus to campus, they often involve the use of low-stakes online quizzes to promote student mastery of material. Such quizzes and other online tasks can replace the need for class time and reduce the number of professors required to teach a course, Ms. Twigg said. On average, the course redesigns reduce costs by 37 percent, she said.
  • Ms. Twigg has argued for more than a decade that, when used effectively, technology can both improve student achievement and reduce costs.
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  • It is a "myth" in higher education that "we can cut our way into survival," Mr. Yudof said.
Allan Gyorke

As Costs of New Rule Are Felt, Colleges Rethink Where to Offer Online Courses - Governm... - 3 views

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World Campus distance education accreditation

shared by Allan Gyorke on 05 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Allan Gyorke on 05 Jul 11
     
    "Under federal rules that take effect on July 1, Bismarck State will have to seek approval to operate in every state where it enrolls students, or forgo those students' federal aid. With some states charging thousands of dollars per application, the college is weighing whether it can afford to remain in states where the cost of doing business outweighs the benefits, in tuition terms."
  • Allan Gyorke on 05 Jul 11
     
    Under the new rules, some of the smaller online institutions may go under or need to partner with a larger institution like Penn State to continue offering online courses.
Cole Camplese

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - 1 views

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ci597 disruption psuhack technology internet

shared by Cole Camplese on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
  • In other words the cost of connection is rapidly approaching zero, and for a very simple reason: the value of the web increases with every single additional person who joins it. It’s in everybody’s interest for costs to keep dropping closer and closer to nothing until every last person on the planet is connected.
  • Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs (and a couple of decades or so after that, as sheets of paper or grains of sand) and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I’m sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for ‘productivity.’
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  • The same thing is happening in communication technology. Most of us are stumbling along in a kind of pidgin version of it, squinting myopically at things the size of fridges on our desks, not quite understanding where email goes, and cursing at the beeps of mobile phones. Our children, however, are doing something completely different. Risto Linturi, research fellow of the Helsinki Telephone Corporation, quoted in Wired magazine, describes the extraordinary behaviour kids in the streets of Helsinki, all carrying cellphones with messaging capabilities. They are not exchanging important business information, they’re just chattering, staying in touch. "We are herd animals," he says. "These kids are connected to their herd – they always know where it’s moving." Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology."
  • Cole Camplese on 11 May 11
     
    Great piece by the late Douglas Adams in 1999.  So true in the rearview mirror!
  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    An 11 year old text, the message of which still needs to be delivered to many people today.
bkozlek

ChromeBooks For Education Priced At $20 Per Month - 0 views

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chromebooks education

shared by bkozlek on 11 May 11 - No Cached
  • ChromeBooks, centralized, almost entirely cloud-based machines by Google, will be available for students and schools at $20/per month/per user, enabling full updates, central login controls, and a central administrator panel to handle users and control access. The price includes a web console, full support, warranty and replacements, and how-tos along with free updates. They will be available on June 15 and offer many of the same features available in Chromebooks for Business.
  • bkozlek on 11 May 11
     
    There is something appealing about a purely cloud based machine. Potential for huge savings in IT costs.
Cole Camplese

How Long Does It Take To Develop An Hour Of Elearning? | Upside Learning Blog - 5 views

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elearning costs

shared by Cole Camplese on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • As I was looking through my feeds this morning, I noticed a post from Karl Kapp in which he mentions a presentation by the Chapman Alliance, which talks about development costs for an hour of Elearning based on a survey.
Cole Camplese

Push Pop Press: Al Gore's Our Choice - 2 views

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design ipad book future psuhack

shared by Cole Camplese on 29 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Cole Camplese on 29 Apr 11
     
    I don't care if you agree with the science, this represents the first real interactive text designed for iOS that I have seen.  I can't even imagine how much this thing cost to make, but it looks really stunning.  But at 4.99 it seems like a mind bending opportunity to learn about interaction design.
bartmon

Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward - 1 views

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  • At 7.5 million users, Weebly doesn't have the size or visibility of platforms like Tumblr (more than 25 million blogs) or WordPress (about 54 million). But Weebly, which tries to make it cheap and easy for businesses to create their own websites, now powers 2 percent of the Internet, according to research firm Netcraft.
  • They did it using a "freemium" model, giving away most services at no cost but charging for additional features.
  • Veltri, the chief operating officer, says that 51 percent of businesses still don't have a Web presence.
  • bartmon on 17 Aug 11
     
    Interesting for a few reasons. This was an IST class project in 2007 or 08, that led to 3 PSU students dropping out of school and driving across country to chase funding. They are also using the freemium model, a model that a lot of game companies adopted to turn net-loss IPs into profitable IPs the last few years. Finally, the stat "51% of business don't have a web presence" is surprising. I know a lot of small business don't have a presence (I'm looking at you, Watkins Glen hotels and wineries!), but 51% seems high.
  • bkozlek on 17 Aug 11
     
    only tangentially related: http://www.squarespace.com/ is another very impressive website hosted content management system.
Cole Camplese

Sharing Student Notes - Work and Stuff - 1 views

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psutlt notes

shared by Cole Camplese on 31 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • I think it would be cool to add a link in our new LMS where students could share their class notes online with the other students in the class. A rating system could percolate the best notes to the top and a search feature could possibly return a page of student notes using that word or phrase.
  • Cole Camplese on 31 Aug 11
     
    Interesting idea ... I've seen a lot of these kinds of features proposed in the emerging eText area.
  • Allan Gyorke on 03 Sep 11
     
    GradeGuru is specifically designed to do this. http://www.gradeguru.com/home We took a look at it. Interesting idea - ratings of quality notes and note takers with the ability for top performers to earn real rewards. They proposed a cost of something like $2/enrollment/semester though - just not a model that would work for us.
Cole Camplese

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

www.economist.com/...higher_education

shared by Cole Camplese on 24 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Cole Camplese on 24 Apr 11
     
    Interesting surface level exploration of the edu bubble.
  • gary chinn on 25 Apr 11
     
    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.
Derek Gittler

The Default Major - Skating Through B-School - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...edl-17business-t.html

shared by Derek Gittler on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • According to national surveys, they want to hire 22-year-olds who can write coherently, think creatively and analyze quantitative data, and they’re perfectly happy to hire English or biology majors
  • Virginia’s integrated course system is possible because the business school is swimming in money
    • Derek Gittler
      Derek Gittler on 21 Apr 11
       
      How could Social Media integrate these various fields, without hierarchical structures imposing a cost?  Let the network find a way?
Cole Camplese

7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

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psutlt LearningSpaces commons library

shared by Cole Camplese on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The learning commons, sometimes called an “information commons,” has evolved from a combination library and computer lab into a full-service learning, research, and project space. As a place where students can meet, talk, study, and use “borrowed” equipment, the learning commons brings together the functions of libraries, labs, lounges, and seminar areas in a single community gathering place. The cost of a learning commons can be an obstacle, but for institutions that invest in a sophisticated learning commons, the new and expanded partnerships across disciplines facilitate and promote greater levels of collaboration. The commons invites students to devise their own approaches to their work and to transfer what they learn in one course to the work they do for another.
  • Cole Camplese on 26 Apr 11
     
    This is a critical discussion today and will be more important going forward. If TLT wants to create a vision related to creating the best learning spaces in higher education we need to better understand what is and isn't working.  My emerging goal is to establish a strategic direction that has us look at our spaces on a continuum from very informal to very formal in a consistent and systematic way.
  • Allan Gyorke on 26 Apr 11
     
    The writing process around this particular 7 Things paper was a lot of fun. I got a real sense that what we're doing with the Media Commons spaces, especially plans for the Knowledge Commons and Ritenour are in line with the kinds of spaces being developed at other universities. There was a lot of discussion around the political side of these spaces since the physical space, staffing, and resources don't fall into a neat hierarchy of organizational structure. Anyway, I'd really enjoy being part of a discussion about space design. There are a set of recommendations that the informal learning spaces group generated two years ago that haven't been acted upon. Not that those recommendations are still the right way to go, but it's a starting point for some of the discussion: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/about/reports/2009/Learning-Spaces-Vision.pdf/view
gary chinn

PR-USA.net - Flat World Knowledge Puts Faculty in Control With "Make It Your Own" Textb... - 0 views

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opened textbook

shared by gary chinn on 26 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Flat World Knowledge, the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide, today announced the release of a new platform called MIYO (Make It Your Own) (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/miyo). The fully-automated system gives professors greater control over textbook content, and the ability, with one click, to make their modified book available to students free online or in multiple, low-cost digital and print formats.
  • The new system uses familiar drag-and-drop and click features that allow instructors to easily move or delete chapters and sections; upload Word and PDF documents; add notes and exercises; insert video and hyperlinks; edit sentences; and incorporate other content that is free to reuse under a Creative Commons open license.
  • gary chinn on 26 Apr 11
     
    story about release of new platform from one of david wiley's projects.
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