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in title, tags, annotations or urlNew Roles for Student Support Services in Distance Learning - PDF Free Download - 0 views
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New Roles for Student Support Services in Distance Learning
BatchGeo: Create an interactive map from your data - 1 views
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Make a map from a list of multiple locations, use addresses, postcodes, or coordinates. Free hosting for your own interactive map locator. Being able to easily map historical data to geographical data can help students better understand who different historical events were related to each other, whether that is large scale events like different riots in a city or the addresses of important individuals, or the location of important life events for a single person. BatchGeo is a tool that interfaces with Excel and Google Maps to easily place data on a map. This is a tool that could be used by faculty to create resources for students or an easy to learn tool that students themselves could use.
UIS Quality Assurance | University of Illinois Springfield - 0 views
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SUNY's Online Course Quality Review (OSCQR) Rubric
Faculty Usage of Library Tools in a Learning Management System - 0 views
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In order to better understand faculty attitudes and practices regarding usage of library-specific tools and roles in a university learning management system, log data for a period of three semesters was analyzed. Academic departments with highest rates of usage were identified, and faculty users and non-users within those departments were surveyed regarding their perceptions of and experience with the library tools. Librarians who use the tools were also surveyed to compare their perceptions of faculty tool and role use. While faculty survey respondents showed high levels of positive perceptions of librarians, they also exhibited low awareness of the library tools and little understanding of their use. Recommendations for encouraging wider adoption and effective usage are discussed.
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In order to better understand faculty attitudes and practices regarding usage of library-specific tools and roles in a university learning management system, log data for a period of three semesters was analyzed. Academic departments with highest rates of usage were identified, and faculty users and non-users within those departments were surveyed regarding their perceptions of and experience with the library tools. Librarians who use the tools were also surveyed to compare their perceptions of faculty tool and role use. While faculty survey respondents showed high levels of positive perceptions of librarians, they also exhibited low awareness of the library tools and little understanding of their use. Recommendations for encouraging wider adoption and effective usage are discussed.
28 Rich Data Visualization Tools - InsideRIA - 0 views
What is Open Data? - 0 views
ScienceGuide - Open Access Week: Reusing and Sharing Research Data - 0 views
Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics - 0 views
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"The goal of this project is to provide free, high quality, interactive, web-based resources for students and teachers of probability and statistics. Basically, our project consists of an integrated set of components that includes expository text, applets, data sets, biographical sketches, and an object library."
Wolfram Mathematica: Home Page - 0 views
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From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used. Whether you need a sophisticated calculator or an integrated technical programming environment, Mathematica provides you with a complete solution. You can perform a single task - like analyzing data or solving a tricky differential equation - or develop an entire solution, prototype, or application.
Zip Skinny - 0 views
Seven Keys to Improving Teaching and Learning - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 0 views
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"My first suggestion is to start where the bottlenecks in the discipline are," he said. "What topics in your course are harder for the students? Why is that? Are students lacking requisite prior knowledge? Do they need more practice of certain basic skills? Do they bring misconceptions to the table? If you don't know, collect some data. Once you get a handle on the reasons why, start bridging those gaps with appropriate interventions. Work incrementally. Get comfortable with a few changes in your teaching first, and then expand to others, until you reach a tipping point. …
OCS-2018-Report-FINAL.pdf - 2 views
Data show small improvements in accessibility of course materials - 1 views
OCS-2019-FINAL-WEB-Report.pdf - 1 views
Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World - 0 views
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In the end they titled their paper “The Weirdest People in the World?” (pdf) By “weird” they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others—and even the way we perceive reality—makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors. Among Westerners, the data showed that Americans were often the most unusual, leading the researchers to conclude that “American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners—outliers among outliers.”
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the “weird” Western mind is the most self-aggrandizing and egotistical on the planet: we are more likely to promote ourselves as individuals versus advancing as a group. WEIRD minds are also more analytic, possessing the tendency to telescope in on an object of interest rather than understanding that object in the context of what is around it. The WEIRD mind also appears to be unique in terms of how it comes to understand and interact with the natural world. Studies show that Western urban children grow up so closed off in man-made environments that their brains never form a deep or complex connection to the natural world.
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metaphysical questions: Is my thinking so strange that I have little hope of understanding people from other cultures? Can I mold my own psyche or the psyches of my children to be less WEIRD and more able to think like the rest of the world? If I did, would I be happier?
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A radical idea to transform what kids learn in school - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 0 views
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How many? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says, “Employment of mathematicians is expected to increase by 16 percent from 2010 to 2020…. There will be competition for jobs because of the small number of openings in this occupation.”
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1) Humankind’s hope for the future lies, as it always has, in the richness of human variability. We differ in experience, situation, aspirations, attitudes, abilities, interests, motivations, emotions, life chances, prospects, potential, and luck. To survive and prosper, these differences need to be exploited to the maximum. The core curriculum minimizes them. (2) Knowledge is exploding at an ever-accelerating rate. Whole new fields of study unimagined even a few years ago are emerging. The explosion isn’t just going to continue, it’s going to accelerate. Thinking we know enough to lock ANY curriculum in place — much less one that’s more than a hundred years old — is either naïve or malicious. (3) The future is unknowable. Period. Even if it were possible to standardize and program kids, we don’t know — NOBODY knows — what they’ll need to know next week, much less for the rest of their lives. They may need technical skills no one now has, or the ability to survive on edible weeds and a quart of water a day. Neither the Common Core nor the tests that manufacturers are able to write can take adequate account of an unknown future.