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Six trends that will accelerate the adoption of technology in higher education | Featur... - 0 views

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    Increasing technology trends in higher education
Rick West

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-nmc-horizon-report-he-EN.pdf - 0 views

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    Statistics on the adoption of educational technologies in higher education
Rick West

Professors Publish Guide to Copyright Issues of Multimedia Projects - Wired Campus - Th... - 1 views

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    Multimedia copyright guidelines from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Rick West

EPIC 2020 | EPIC 2020 - 0 views

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    Too much hyperbole, but more or less the direction we are heading with education.
Rick West

Wearable Teaching? College to Experiment With Apple Watch as Learning Tool - Wired Camp... - 0 views

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    Could the apple watch become a useful tool for education? Intriguing ideas about monitoring student engagement.
David Wetzel

5 Benefits for Creating a Classroom Environment for Student Blogs - 0 views

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    Benefits for creating a classroom environment for student blogging begin with establishing a foundation for their success. Why is this important? Integrating blogs transforms a classroom into a learning community where students become self-directed learners and thinkers. This in turn, causes students to use higher order thinking skills as they create and post entries in their blogs, along with commenting on other student's blogs.
Rick West

How Technology Can Improve Online Learning - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 1 views

  • Quality does not lend itself to government regulation because there is no simple metric.
  • In other words, our traditional institutions typically aren't serving this population of older students any better than fully online institutions.
  • We will make great strides in quality when we define and measure learning outcomes independent of time.
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  • The results are published in an annual report, available on our Web site.
  • Quality is not just how many people graduate, but what those graduates know.
  • Quality is also related to how long it takes, and how much it costs, to deliver that learning
  • At Western Governors, for example, the average time to graduation with a bachelor's degree is 30 months, and the university is self-sustaining on tuition of $5,800 a year for nearly all of our programs.
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    Quality does not lend itself to government regulation because there is no simple metric.
Rick West

Survey on Digital Games Use in the Classroom - ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

  • It’s worth noting that most of the focus of the survey seemed to be on using pre-packaged games in the classroom, rather than making games or experimenting with other methods of play, and the survey is highly biased towards the digital–which is of course not inherently any more valuable for learning than physical games.
Rick West

4 Myths About For-Profit Online Learning - Online Learning - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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    Are online degrees/teaching less important than face to face? This article explores some myths with online teaching.
Rick West

New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into 'Flipped' Lessons - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views

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    TED-ED helps with flipped classrooms.
Rick West

Save Articles to Read Later with Pocket - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    read it later is rebranded as Pocket. This is a great series of apps for reading online articles later when you're offline.
Rick West

10 Commandments of Twitter for Academics - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher... - 0 views

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    rules for using twitter and good examples of college professors using twitter well.
Rick West

Encouraging Distraction? Classroom Experiments with Mobile Media - ProfHacker - The Chr... - 0 views

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    Using the ipad for teaching and learning
Rick West

Building a Better Backchannel (THATCamp Report) - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

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    creating backchannels with Twitter from ThatCamp
Rick West

Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

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    teaching with twitter
Rick West

iPad Screencasting: Educreations and Explain Everything - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of... - 1 views

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    screencasting on an ipad. Looks like explain everything is the best one currently.
Rick West

Track Changes on an iPad with Office2 - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    track changes and edit Word docs on your ipad
Rick West

Extend Your Tweets' Life with Echofon and Buffer - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher... - 0 views

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    a cool way to schedule tweets with buffer.
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