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Nancy Lumpkin

Technology and Learning Expectations of the Net Generation | EDUCAUSE - 2 views

shared by Nancy Lumpkin on 28 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Higher education often talks about the Net Generation's expectations for the use of technology in their learning environments. However, few efforts have been made to directly engage students in a dialogue about how they would like to see faculty and their institutions use technology to help students learn more effectively. Through a series of interviews, polls, focus groups, and casual conversations with other students, I gained a general understanding of the Net Generation's views on technology and learning.1
  • How will institutions define and develop technology-enabled learning when students view technology as encompassing a wide range of mobile options beyond the traditional classroom? Do student expectations regarding technology and customization constitute a barrier to effective teaching and learning with technology? What does it mean when students consider an institution's "advanced technology" as "so yesterday?"
  • "To me, my success in the classroom depends on the teacher. If the teacher is prepared and knowledgeable about their particular field, I know I can expect to learn from their knowledge as well as know what is expected of me."
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  • The options were: 100 percent lecturing 75 percent lecturing and 25 percent interactive 50 percent lecturing and 50 percent interactive 100 percent interactive
  • Thus, student views regarding faculty use of PowerPoint help illustrate the Net Generation's desire for the use of technology to support learning, as long as faculty members have the technological—and pedagogical—knowledge and skill necessary to use it appropriately.
Danny Thorne

Innovation - 0 views

  • The Curriculum Innovation and Technology Group (CITG) is a curriculum-based technology consulting organization that provides thought leadership and support services to the Babson College academic programs and Babson College faculty.  The group's primary focuses include: Researching and developing best practices and innovative uses of technology in education Empowering faculty to use technology and appropriate pedagogies in their course and content development Collaborating with program administrators and faculty to innovate the curriculum through technology integration Contributing to Babson brand-building by positioning the College as a leader in curriculum innovation and technology
Nancy Lumpkin

Preparing the Academy of Today for the Learner of Tomorrow | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

  • Opportunities arise from students' familiarity with technology, multitasking style, optimism, team orientation, diversity, and acceptance of authority. Challenges, on the other hand, include the shallowness of their reading and TV viewing habits, a comparative lack of critical thinking skills, naïve views on intellectual property and the authenticity of information found on the Internet, as well as high expectations combined with low satisfaction levels.
  • Institutional leaders need to find ways to think about generations in designing campus and individual student initiatives, as well as to discern trends that will allow future-directed planning.
  • faculty development course designed to guide them in both technological and pedagogical approaches to Web instruction. Through a series of interactive sessions with instructional designers and Web faculty veterans, beginning faculty are encouraged to redesign their courses to focus on being student centered and interactive.
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  • The focus is on faculty facilitating instruction and students becoming active and interactive learners.22
  • Excellent TeachingFrom our exploration of generational issues, an important question evolved: Can students distinguish characterizations of excellent teachers independent of generation, learning style, course modality, and technological sophistication? Data collected at UCF, with more than half a million student responses, suggest an answer.23 We have identified six characteristics that students attribute to the best faculty—characteristics that are independent of age, gender, and academic achievement. Interestingly, these characteristics correspond to the seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education24 and to the national study of student engagement.25 Although students' behaviors, attitudes, and expectations are generally shaped by their generation, what constitutes good teaching appears to be universal across these generations. Students believe that excellent instructors: Facilitate student learning Communicate ideas and information effectively Demonstrate genuine interest in student learning Organize their courses effectively Show respect and concern for their students Assess student progress fairly and effectivelyThis seemingly paradoxical way in which students determine teaching excellence through the lens of their instructors clarifies how universities must accommodate students' needs, realizing that these needs are universal, yet greatly mediated by the Net Generation.
  • If today's students do not represent the constituency that our higher educational system is designed to teach as asserted by Prensky,28 how do we remedy that situation? Possibly, by studying how students interacted (politically, economically, culturally, socially, and technologically) with institutions' instructional climate in the past. By monitoring technology developments and their impact on the student population, we will be better able to anticipate the needs of the class of 2025. This approach will thrust institutions into a forward-thinking posture rather than a reactionary one in response to incoming student cohorts.
Danny Thorne

Wartburg College - Waverly, Iowa, USA - 2 views

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    Educational technology department Education technology newsletter Manhattan Virtual Classroom LMS
Danny Thorne

5 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2010 -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • Gregory Phelan
  • Phelan pointed to the colleges that are "handing out" tablet PCs to all freshmen as the frontrunners in the race to equip students with all of the information they need to succeed in school. Whether other universities follow that lead remains to be seen. "I'd really like to see more schools making that move," said Phelan, "and even further integrate technology into the college classroom."
  • One of the coolest uses of technology that Hutchins has seen lately can be found in Rutgers University's English department, which is equipped with an entire wall of touch-enabled whiteboards. Using precision positioning technology, the wall-mounted boards allow for unprecedented participation and collaboration among students.
Helen Beaven

EBSCOhost: Tablet Personal Computer Integration in Higher Education: Applying the Unif... - 3 views

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    This might be useful... This study seeks to measure student acceptance of tablet computers on a college campus where students (mostly 1st years) were issued tablet-style computers for technology integration in the curriculum.
Danny Thorne

Duke University -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • SimSoap, a Twitter soap opera tied to a cardiac care simulation, is a project of Innovative Nursing Education Technologies (iNET), a federally funded collaborative effort among the nursing programs at Duke, Western Carolina University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to integrate technology into nursing education. The goal of SimSoap is to create teaching materials that are fun and immersive for nursing students. “Our hope is to model the use of Twitter and spark the curiosity of nurse educators,” says Mary Barzee, iNET’s program coordinator.
Helen Beaven

EDTECH: Focus On Higher Education - Small Wonders - 0 views

  • The institutions whose notebook initiatives have proved to be the most enduring “have a clear and compelling curricular vision” for the role of computers inside and outside the classroom
  • Start with professors. “You’re going to have to invest in the faculty,” says Michael Zastrocky, vice president and education industry research director at Gartner. “Let them have the machines a year before you give them out to the students, and provide them with training. It gets them comfortable, and gives them time to learn how they are going to use them in the classroom.”
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      This is absolutely important for any kind of incentive program. You must allow your faculty to train and learn any new technology before it can be applied in an effective manner.
  • Small colleges that have thriving one-to-one computing programs say success hinges not on the machines’ technical details but on understanding how to use them.
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      Though this article discusses on-to-one computing programs, this success of understanding how to use a technology will be essential regardless of the device, software, etc. Faculty will need to understand how a new technology functions before they can implement it .
Helen Beaven

Cool Tools for School - 2 views

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    This teacher has compiled many free web 2.0 technologies and organized them by category. Though it appears to be geared toward a K-12 audience, I think many of the technologies would be applicable in the higher ed setting.
Nancy Lumpkin

Previous ITW Projects - 1 views

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    Since 1999, Sewanee has had the Instructional Technology Workshop and this page shows the types of projects between faculty and ITS.
Nancy Lumpkin

EBSCOhost: The Net Generation in the Classroom - 1 views

  • The article focuses on the use of modern technology to teach new generation of college students. According to Richard T. Sweency, university librarian at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, today's college students, sometimes called the Net Generation or the Millennials, will soon alter the way professors teach, the way classrooms are constructed, and the way colleges deliver degrees. Born between roughly 1980 and 1994, the Millennials have already been pegged and defined by academics, trend spotters, and futurists: They are smart but impatient. They expect results immediately.
Danny Thorne

IMS Global Learning Consortium - 1 views

shared by Danny Thorne on 16 Jul 10 - Cached
  • IMS GLC is a non-profit collaboration among the world's leading educational technology suppliers, content providers, educational institutions, school districts, and government organizations dedicated to improving education and learning through the strategic application of technology.
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    This looks like it should be interesting and I flipped to it...but I can't figure out how to work through the site. I feel like I am entering a discussion that has been going on for awhile and I am sort of lost. Danny, can you help me by directing me to the beginners page...I am not passing "go" and I am not collecting $300...
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    I'm not sure what you mean. Did you find a discussion at imsglobal.org?
Danny Thorne

Bill Gates Predicts Technology Will Make 'Place-Based' Colleges Less Important in 5 Yea... - 0 views

  • On one end will be (and maybe already are) the super-rich who can afford to send their offspring to pricey colleges and universities with a golden future virtually assured even if they're borderline morons. On the other extreme, just above the exploited immigrant classes, will be the products of online schools destined for permanent underclass status.
  • Well designed online courses do not simply push out information to self-motivated learners. Well designed courses include collaboration, formative & summative assessment, and absolutely require faculty participation. To suggest you could pull that off for $2000 for a four year degree is amusing.
  • Real teaching is done in small groups, or 1:1 like Oxford. The rest is compromise with resources.
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  • I have great faith in online education when it's well designed and well executed. Any class with design and instruction that can be sold for a price that would fit into a $2000 per year curriculum will not qualify on either count.
  • place-based activiy in that college thing will be five times less important than it is today
Danny Thorne

Auburn University -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • Students have used geospatial technologies to map more than 12,000 infrastructure elements along miles of Alabama’s Gulf Coast, enabling emergency responders to find critical utility points to restore services in the wake of natural disasters.
Helen Beaven

Motivators and Inhibitors for University Faculty in Distance and E-Learning - 0 views

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    Cook, R., Ley, K., Crawford, C., & Warner, A. (2009). Motivators and Inhibitors for University Faculty in Distance and E-Learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40(1), 149-163. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. This article reports on four United States studies of how rewards systems, extrinsic and intrinsic, could play an important role in providing incentives for university faculty to teach (or remain teaching) electronic and distance education courses. The first three studies conducted prior to 2003 reported faculty were inherently motivated to teach e-learning and distance education. The fourth study in 2003 reported key findings that differed from the earlier studies. Using a principal components analysis, the researchers found nine indicators of motivation to participate or not participate in electronic or distance education. The implications from the fourth study indicated that, while faculty members were inherently committed to helping students, faculty members wanted their basic physiological needs met by university administration through extrinsic motivators, such as salary increases and course releases..
Nancy Lumpkin

Educating the Net Generation | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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    2005...too old? Explores many of the same things we are in this group.
Danny Thorne

Seton Hill University - Griffin Technology Advantage - iPads for EVERYONE! - 1 views

  • Seton Hill University will give a new Apple iPad to every full-time student in fall 2010.
Nancy Lumpkin

The Open, Social, Participatory Future of Online Learning - Wired Campus - The Chronicl... - 0 views

  • Most faculty teach the way they were taught, but most weren't taught with technology. To learn how to do so requires time, incentives and support to go back to being a student of one's craft (teaching), preferably in an environment one will be asked to teach in.
  • Also, the joint Educause and Gates Foundation "Next Generation Learning Challenges" identifies "Learning Analytics" as one of four key challenges will receive funding consideration:http://www.nextgenlearning.com/the-challenges/learning-analyticsHere at UMBC, we've been pursuing academic analytics by looking at how strong and weak students using the LMS. We've been very much influenced by the fine work being done at Purdue University, the University of Georgia, and others.
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