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BlueFuego Formula for determining Facebook Page Engagement | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 0 views

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  • bartmon on 08 Jun 11
     
    This is the formula Chas talked about, the blue fuego formula that World Campus uses to measure the engagement from their Facebook presence. I'm not sure this tells you a whole lot, but at least it's something to gauge how much people are using a Facebook page.
Chas Brua

Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education | The Nation - 1 views

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  • Chas Brua on 06 Jun 11
     
    Rather bleak appraisal of the economic system that underlies graduate education -- and why the deck is stacked against reform despite the desperate situation for higher ed. 
  • bartmon on 07 Jun 11
     
    I didn't get through the whole article, but the gist i get is that the author (and the author of most articles like this I read) is primarily focused with graduate students moving on to be tenure-line faculty somewhere. I continually stress to current graduate students that there is life outside of a tenure-line faculty position (although most research-1 professors overseeing graduate student research will never tell you this). Lots of IST PhDs go on to work in high-paying government or consultant positions, and are perfectly happy with that decision.
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AJET 27(2) Taplin, Low and Brown (2011) - Students' satisfaction and valuation of web-b... - 0 views

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  • In particular, most students appear to place little value on WBLT, however a small minority value them very highly. Further research is necessary to identify more carefully the students who value WBLT highly, and whether the gain to these students warrants widespread use of WBLT.
  • Our survey also included a final open ended question "If iLecture was not available next semester, how would that affect you?" Most students responded briefly to this question. Out of the 130 comments made by students, 54% responded with sentiments such as "not much" or "no effect" and 26% indicated it would make their revisions harder or difficult if they could not understand the face to face lectures. This provides qualitative confirmation of our quantitative results. Most students place no or little value on WBLT.
  • bartmon on 06 Jun 11
     
    Interesting Lecture Capture study (and recent, 2011). Basically, a small number of students found value in being able to review lectures via video recording. Study only focused on business majors.
bartmon

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2011 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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  • ubiquitous use of instructional technology poses a challenge that will most likely escalate in the foreseeable future as new and emerging tools for teaching and learning evolve. Indeed, the 2011 Current Issues Survey ranked Teaching and Learning with Technology as one of the top-three issues that has the potential to become more significant. The impact on the budget was noted in the survey as well, with Teaching and Learning with Technology ranking fifth as an issue that consumes financial resources.
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News: What They Are Really Typing - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • The authors of two recent studies of laptops and classroom learning decided that relying on student and professor testimony would not do. They decided instead to spy on students.
  • The average student in the Vermont study cycled through a whopping 65 new, active windows per lecture, nearly two-thirds of which were classified as “distractive.” (One student averaged 174 new windows per lecture.) But only one type of distractive application appeared to have any effect on how well students ended up doing on assessments: instant messaging.
  • bartmon on 06 Jun 11
     
    Interesting stuff Angela sent around a while back. Seems that students are looking at A LOT of stuff during a class period (averaging 60+ active windows? wow), but only IM'ing seems to make an impact on performance in class. Think we should make something like Educause's "7 things you need to know about..." for laptop use in class (as well as texting)? These are two things that always seem to come up at faculty meetings.
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