close the gap between what our students are learning and the expectations of the job markets in their field
Liberal Education in the Emerging Digital Ecosystem | Rebecca Frost Davis - 0 views
No More Digitally Challenged Liberal-Arts Majors - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 4 views
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We celebrate the graduates who seem most like ourselves—the ones who set out to become academics—and we don't talk much about what happens to those graduates after they've earned their Ph.D.'s. Without that conversation, we ill serve many of our students, and we undercut the impact that our fields could have beyond academe.
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"We like liberal-arts graduates. They are curious and creative, they write well, they can do research, they are quick learners, and they are good critical thinkers." The best of them have the "ability to synthesize and distill large amounts of information." And "we especially need individuals who are good storytellers—who can convey the mission of our organization in a variety of forms."
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'Introduction to Ancient Rome,' the Flipped Version - Commentary - The Chronicle of Hig... - 4 views
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Very helpful article for me, especially reading through the comments of other professors who have "flipped" their classrooms. Thanks for the link.
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Interesting thoughts. I am not sure why her students were so unlikely to watch the lectures because they would have to have done reading if they had not had the lectures to watch. It suggests that they were simply used to not doing homework ahead of her classes. I would be interested to know how people ensure that homework is done so that students can participate - I use objective summaries. My husband runs a flipped class and games base class in chemistry - his students - High School level - really value the format.
Analysts see changes ahead for LMS market after a summer light on news @insidehighered - 2 views
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“what an LMS means in a post-LMS world,”
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Instead of bloating their products with as many new features as they can develop, vendors are increasingly letting other ed-tech companies do the work for them, opening their systems to outside developers.
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an open platform where faculty members are free to browse and embed the tools they want to use -- for example quizzes from Khan Academy, plagiarism detection from Turnitin or a homegrown solution -- regardless of whether they logged into Learn or Sakai, and regardless of whether their system has its own, similar tool.
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