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Obama vows to 'shake up' higher education and find new ways to limit costs | Inside Hig... - 0 views

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  • Families and taxpayers can’t just keep paying more and more and more into an undisciplined system where costs just keep on going up and up and up
  • We’ve got to get more out of what we pay for
  • Keeping college within reach of middle-class families is among the president's top priorities, and he's challenging all of us to be creative in coming up with new ideas and to be energetic in pursuing existing policies to promote affordability and value for students
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  • worry that speedier credentials at markedly lower costs
  • the most significant educational issue we face today is how to help today's woefully under-prepared first generation students develop the broad knowledge and adaptive intellectual skills that prepare them for the jobs of tomorrow and for their role as citizens
  • substance
sheryl barnes

New Music Technology Program at Carnegie Mellon U. - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 29 Apr 08 - Cached
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  • sheryl barnes on 29 Apr 08
     
    Exciting and innovative new program that includes courses from the College of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the School of Computer Science. From Wired Campus.
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WCET Conference Session on Changing to a New LMS - CMS Options | Google Groups - 0 views

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  • 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.
Hannah Reeves

Education News - Education Life - The New York Times - 0 views

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education life news open access educational research

shared by Hannah Reeves on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Hannah Reeves on 23 Apr 10
     
    Thought this article on open access, open ed resources, etc might be of interest to some.
sheryl barnes

The Legacy of Steve Jobs | Tufts Now - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Tufts researchers in my group at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, as well as the Human Factors Program, the Information Visualization Lab, the Human-Robot Interaction Lab, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and other research groups on campus attempt to look further into the future and invent new types of interfaces that might follow or complement the GUI we all use today.
  • sheryl barnes on 12 Oct 11
     
    "Tufts researchers in my group at the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, as well as the Human Factors Program, the Information Visualization Lab, the Human-Robot Interaction Lab, the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and other research groups on campus attempt to look further into the future and invent new types of interfaces that might follow or complement the GUI we all use today."
sheryl barnes

Digital Humanities efforts range from database design to new creations | Harvard Magazi... - 0 views

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  • the work of the humanities is to create the vessels that store our culture. In this sense, the digitization of archives and collections holds the promise of a grand conclusion: nothing less than the unification of the human cultural record online, representing, in theory, an unprecedented democratization of access to human knowledge. Equally profound is the way that technology could change the way knowledge is created in the humanities
  • entering an experimental period of inventiveness and imagination that involves the creation of new kinds of vessels—be they databases, books, exhibits, or works of art—to gather, store, interpret, and transmit culture
  • “much better signal to noise ratio” than Google
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  • Where do libraries fit within the information-management equation
  • power of digital tools in research would expand the focus of dissertations from the 20-year span that has been “the hallmark of historical scholarship over the last three decades” to 150 years
  • The ability to analyze a vast body of texts also implies a dramatic expansion of the field of questions humanities scholars can ask
  • The changes afoot in the humanities are about expanding the compass, the quality, and the reach of scholarship
sheryl barnes

'Abelard to Apple' | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 12 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • when professors get together to talk about change, they are talking mainly to each other. Most people do not understand how universities work, why they cost so much, how they got this way, and why they are so slow to change.
  • American colleges and universities do not have to change who they are, they have to discover who they are
  • trapped by culture and tradition and continue to sow the seeds of their own destruction
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  • as a recent Pew poll shows, the middle is for the most part oblivious to the new realities. They think they are doing fine when study after study shows that most of them are in deep trouble. There is a Lake Wobegon-like belief that everyone is above average
  • there are only two things wrong with higher education: what we teach and how we teach it
  • advice for the middle is this: figure out what you do that makes you different and more valuable and then figure out how to offer that to as many students as you can
  • there is a great experiment taking place in the for-profit sector. Great innovation will be the result, and if traditional professors ignore the lessons of innovation they are likely to be left in the dust
  • professors who do not provide value, who are excessively, inwardly focused on the concerns of their profession, who confuse lecturing with teaching, who confuse scholarship with winning sponsored research grants, are usually swept to the margins
sheryl barnes

Challenge Based Learning > The Report from the Implementation Project | The New Media C... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 18 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 18 Nov 11
     
    I just printed a copy of this new report, in case you want to borrow it. Sounds very exciting.
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Medical Simulation Lets New Doctors Learn Without Fear - Facilities - The Chronicle of ... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 09 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • sheryl barnes on 09 Aug 12
     
    Interesting article about simulation in Medical Ed, seems relevant to all disciplines - practice makes perfect!
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Juxio -- Create New Meaning - 3 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 17 Aug 10
     
    Cool new image & text tool
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MIT Center for Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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  • sheryl barnes on 15 Oct 08
     
    The MIT Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together. Our basic research question is: How can people and computers be connected so that-collectively-they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?'
sheryl barnes

Making Wikis Work for Scholars :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for New... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 29 Apr 08 - Cached
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  • sheryl barnes on 29 Apr 08
     
    Great article that includes several more academically oriented wiki sites as well as ideas for teaching with Wikipedia.
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Better Learning With Sites and Sound :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source f... - 0 views

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shared by sheryl barnes on 03 Dec 08 - Cached
  • the study found that they were “more likely to explain more complex concepts using a combination of text and non-text based materials. The majority of participants ... expressed the view that it was easier to express themselves at a higher cognitive level when they could present material using multiple media sources.” They also had higher levels of satisfaction.
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