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sheryl barnes

Elements of Engagement for Successful Learning - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 21 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 21 Dec 11
     
    In this research we sought to understand student practices, beliefs, and behaviors that led to positive engagement on campus. More specifically, we studied student engagement as a function of the individual within the contexts of classroom and university environment using a basic interpretive approach. First year students from a medium-sized, public, Midwestern university participated in interviews on engagement, the classroom, university, and community contexts. Results suggest that both personality and a sense of self influence students' levels of engagement. Students who had identified life goals and who sought related activities and relationships made greater use of university resources and felt more engaged. We propose ways in which instructors and universities can make simple changes that may help enhance the experience of all students.
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Innovate: Using Student Response Systems to Increase Motivation, Learning, and Knowledg... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 01 Oct 08 - Cached
  • benefit of this technology in terms of student motivation and engagement
  • making class more interesting and aiding in exam preparation
  • students who used an SRS retained significantly more of their knowledge from the midterm than did the control group
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  • SRS positively impacted not only students’ expectations of success and interest in the class but also their retention of knowledge
  • SRS may play an important role in increasing student engagement and interest, improving performance on traditional exams, increasing confidence in remembering the material, and most importantly, increasing retention of that material
  • This study provided empirical evidence that SRS may play an important role in increasing student engagement and interest, improving performance on traditional exams, increasing confidence in remembering the material, and most importantly, increasing retention of that material.
sheryl barnes

Engaging Faculty as Catalysts For Change: A Roadmap for Transforming Higher Education (... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 28 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 28 Feb 13
     
    The Faculty Fellowship Program at the University of Minnesota aims to change faculty culture to implement effectively the thoughtful and innovative application of educational technologies...Our collaborative report is both a manifesto and a roadmap for creating a broad, holistic vision of a university culture that supports excellence in teaching and learning with technology...The presence of a university-wide approach to faculty development results in the institution's ability to learn from its own practices.
  • sheryl barnes on 28 Feb 13
     
    If anyone wants to discuss this, I'd welcome the motivation to read it more closely, look pretty exciting.
sheryl barnes

WCET Conference Session on Changing to a New LMS - CMS Options | Google Groups - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 29 Sep 09 - Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 29 Sep 09
     
    New! State of LMS in Higher Education - Understanding the Big Picture In coordination with the California State University System, Delta Initiative collected information from various statewide systems on their approach for an LMS strategy. The study involved the collection of information through interviews and web-based research from a dozen systems of higher education. Our conclusion: The future of learning management has reached another crossroads in its path as a key enterprise system for higher education. This session will provide insight on the current state of the LMS vendor market, present timely research findings concerning the LMS profiles of several statewide systems, and engage the audience in a discussion of key issues encountered in the evaluation and deployment of an LMS approach on a statewide basis. Moderator: Rhonda Epper, Co-Executive Director, Learning Technology, Colorado Community College System, and Vice Chair, WCET Steering Committee Presenter: Phil Hill, Executive Vice President, Delta Initiative (IL)
  • sheryl barnes on 29 Sep 09
     
    I'm not sure if they'll make a recording available after the fact, but this looks like research that's relevant (if commercially motivated) to our project.
sheryl barnes

Want to Reach Students? Let Them Build Stuff - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 1 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Students get from their education almost exactly what they put into it, so the goal of any curriculum needs to be maximum engagement
  • It’s not going to be enough for individual teachers to design engaging projects for their students–though that’s a start. The challenge will be getting departments organized around such immersive approaches to their subject.
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Building An Online Learning Community by Kevin Wilcoxon : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 04 Oct 11
     
    How can an instructional designer (ID) leverage social interaction online to engage learners, increase exchange and dialogue, and get better results, without losing the purposeful focus provided by an instructor or traditional course content and structure? Many IDs are intrigued by the potential of communal experiences online, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about how to proceed. Here are a couple of cases that you may find interesting. Afterward, I offer a roadmap for producing similar results.
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The tragedy of US higher education | Felix Salmon - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 20 May 13 - No Cached
  • colleges have been engaged in “increasingly progressive rhetoric and increasingly regressive actions
  • sheryl barnes on 20 May 13
     
    links to article about Cooper Union & the trouble Jamshed is in there.
sheryl barnes

Professional Development for Technology-Enhanced Inquiry Science - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • A recent synthesis of more than 25 meta-analytic studies investigating the role of computer-based technologies in student learning found that the teacher may play an even greater role in students’ technology-enhanced learning than the nature of the technology intervention itself.
  • professional development programs can improve instruction when they immerse teachers in inquiry investigations
  • Inquiry investigations engage teachers in activities such as comparing alternative forms of curricula and pedagogical techniques, analyzing the range of students’ ideas in a targeted subject matter, connecting students’ ideas to specific elements of instruction, and critiquing lesson plans in a mutually supportive teacher community
  • sheryl barnes on 05 Sep 12
     
    in k-12 setting, but still interesting
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The Future Is Now: 15 Innovations to Watch For - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 05 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • forces affecting colleges are well known: economic, as various revenue streams lag behind rising costs; demographic, as colleges enroll more part-time and nontraditional students who struggle with financial challenges, disabilities, inadequate preparation, and work-family stresses; and market-driven, as for-profit and aggressive nonprofit institutions compete for the most rapidly growing student sector, working adults.
  • higher education must address a host of criticisms: that graduation rates are too low, that levels of student engagement and learning outcomes are unacceptable, and that a college education does not provide good value for the money.
  • shift in the way students consume higher education
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  • colleges must become more nimble, entrepreneurial, student-focused, and accountable for what students learn
sheryl barnes

The Ed Techie: Is Uniglu what I need? - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 18 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Tom is a lecturer at Strummer University in French Language. He wants his students to get used to engaging in online audio/video discussions, capturing mobile input. He has distance as well as campus based students so wants something asynchronous. Seesmic seems to be ideal. But rather than tell his students to sign up there and swap ids, he just wants them to be able to use it as a suite of tools. If they decide to go there, it will be already configured for them. So he speaks to his IT services dept. who tell him that Seesmic is one of the 2138 applications that are listed in the Uniglu directory. This means they are trusted and are capable of accepting university data. They pass the secure data to the Seesmic API which automatically creates accounts for all the students, using their OpenID and preferred user names. It adds in all the students in the cohort as Followers and Following.Similarly, in the course wiki, Tom is using Wetpaint. This also adds in all the students, and also sets up Tom and the two course assistants as moderators. The access to the wiki is set to registered only (ie the course cohort only, not public) which is the default option when it is available.
  • sheryl barnes on 18 Nov 08
     
    Some really interesting ideas here, related to our LMS project.
sheryl barnes

U. of Michigan Professor Designs Software for Student Engagement - Wired Campus - The C... - 1 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 24 May 10
     
    "Lecture tools" looks like an interesting suite of tools - I registered a Tufts Test class - feel free to join it and add content if you want to experiment with this platform. It's from Michigan, Hannah, do you know this guy (Perry Samson) or his work?
sheryl barnes

Wired Campus: Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class -- via... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 09 Apr 09
     
    relates to conversations we've been having this week - about engaging students as well as the summer institute
Hannah Reeves

Here, There, & Everywhere -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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eportfolios PLEs Web 2.0 student engagement technology web2.0 NERCOMP lms educational_technology

shared by Hannah Reeves on 04 Nov 09 - Cached
  • But like much on campus these days, ePortfolios are morphing to reflect the far-reaching trend in higher ed of relying less on technology delivered by the institution itself and more on the use of user-centric technology, including Web 2.0
  • At some point in the evolution of ePortfolios, however, those initial goals of reflection and assessment begin to feel "inauthentic, another hoop for the students to jump through,"
  • students are becoming very disengaged from [the process] of maintaining their own identities as learners."
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  • "The ePortfolio becomes a compliance activity
  • Hannah Reeves on 04 Nov 09
     
    This is one of the best articles I"ve read on the ePortfolio landscape and how technology and student initiative is helping adoption of reflective, archival practices.
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