That’s because our new best friend for the next four years was going to be an app called Total Educational Experience (TEx). Designed by The University of Texas System, TEx is our one-stop shop for everything – a vast array of textbooks and other course materials, online access to faculty and success coaches, endless quizzes and exams, social media-like interaction with classmates, and real-time metrics to measure our performance.
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The College App That Changed My Life | Higher Ed Beta - 2 views
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Ex tells me what materials I should be covering and what benchmarks I should be achieving. This helps with time management and keeping pace with the workload. Moreover, the app’s quizzes are helpful in prioritizing what points should be drawn from the readings. And the fact that there is an explanation for each question — whether it’s right or wrong — has allowed me to better understand the material.
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’m not sure how many colleges are experimenting with using this type of app to deliver competency-based education. But I can tell you it works, and you don’t have to be tech-savvy to figure it out.
IFAP - Dear Colleague Letters - 0 views
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he purpose of this letter is to provide guidance to address potential fraud in the Federal student aid programs at institutions of higher education that offer distance education programs. This letter provides an overview of the fraud schemes that the Department's Inspector General (IG) detected, and recommends immediate steps that institutions can take to detect and prevent fraud. In this letter, we also describe further actions that institutions can take and that the Federal government is committed to taking, including increasing technical assistance to institutions of higher education, the convening of a Department-wide task force on distance education fraud, and plans for recommending legislative and regulatory changes to address the relevant issues.
Few students or faculty like gen ed. Harvard and Duke are trying to change that. - 0 views
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Harvard Universityand Duke University have revamped their general education models to make courses more interesting and meaningful to students and faculty, Colleen Flaherty reports for Inside Higher Ed. At both universities, leaders are concerned that students do not understand the point of general education, a problem also seen at other institutions nationwide.
Lessons From the Sharing Economy | Higher Ed Gamma - 0 views
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Sharing/using other instructor's materials like videos in support of active learning .... I like this para especially: "The impact is especially great for women and others under-represented in STEM fields. Studies show that the achievement gap in STEM classes can be reduced or even annihilated for women, first-generation college students and underrepresented minority students if active learning strategies are employed. In order to make this happen in the classroom, it is effective to place some amount of foundational learning outside of class time."
Higher Ed E-Learning Growth To Continue at Modest Pace Through 2015 -- Campus Technology - 0 views
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Predicted Expenditures for elearning tools and services
Let's differentiate between 'competency' and 'mastery' in higher ed (essay) @insidehigh... - 0 views
4 Ways to Fine-Tune Academic Innovation in Higher Ed -- Campus Technology - 0 views
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Office of Digital Education & Innovation, charged with scaling up instructional innovation and experimentation across the institution. In its early days, the office was divided into three labs: The Learning, Education and Design Lab, focused on doing research and scholarship to understand how instructional technologies and digital media can be used in teaching, learning and collaboration; The Digital Education & Innovation Lab, which was established to help create new digital courses, including MOOCs, and help develop open educational resources; and The Digital Innovation Greenhouse, which emphasized development of software specifically to help students.
U.S. Department of Education Expands Innovation in Higher Education through the Experim... - 0 views
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The Department took those suggestions, and will be providing institutions with greater regulatory flexibility to design and test new approaches to student financial aid designed to meet the need of these students through several new experiments that will: Enable students to earn federal student aid based on how much they learn, rather than the amount of time they spend in class by providing federal aid to students enrolled in self-paced competency-based education programs. Provide flexibility for an institution to provide a mix of direct assessment coursework and credit hour coursework in the same program. Allow the use of federal student aid to pay for prior learning assessments, which can allow students—including returning adults or veterans—to decrease their time to get a degree.
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Institutions that apply for and are granted these limited waivers would be able to have more flexibility over a portion of their federal student aid in order to implement experiments suggested by colleges, universities and the higher education community. Applications for the new experiments will be due in late September
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Department is also announcing today that it will collaborate with the Department of Labor to develop a $25 million grant competition for an Online Skills Academy to support the development of a platform to enable high-quality, free or low-cost pathways to degrees, certificates, or other employer-recognized credentials
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Study Sees Gains for Women, Underperforming Students in Flipped Classroom | InsideHigherEd - 1 views
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"Flipping the classroom is particularly beneficial for women and students with low grades, according to a new study by researchers at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The findings emerge from five years' worth of data gathered from an upper-level biochemistry course first taught in a traditional setting, then flipped. Students in the flipped sections of the course scored 12 percent higher on exams than students in sections that used lectures, and the flipped sections also showed less of a gap between the exam scores earned by male and female students. Students with the lowest overall grade point averages appeared to benefit the most from flipping the classroom. The study appears in the December issue of CBE -- Life Sciences Education, a journal of the American Society for Cell Biology."
Trump administration official describes plan to 'rethink' higher education through upco... - 0 views
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epartment wants to drop a standardized definition for academic course work, known as the credit hour, that the Obama administration rewrote in 2010 to curb credit inflation
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re-examination of requirements for online education
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faculty interaction and state authorization rules
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Tips for college leaders to make online programs work | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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“Why are we doing e-learning?” Is it to increase tuition revenue? Decrease costs? Create greater access? Allow greater flexibility for our students? Experiment with new pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning, so as to better educate a different generation of students? All of the above?
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ultimately the senior no-wake proponents on campus will delay and/or sabotage any meaningful e-learning strategy.
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all must understand the risks of NOT advancing one.
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Calif. community college goes out-of-state with online degree partnerships | Inside Hig... - 1 views
Thinking Small About Online Learning | Technology and Learning - 0 views
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Understanding the changing dynamics of the big players in online learning is important - but I fear that these numbers may dissuade some institutions from exploring distance education
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An alternative way to think about online learning is not about scale - or even really about revenue generation - but about specialization.
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Online programs can be a vehicle to highlight differentiation. What school, department, program, or area of research does your school do better than anybody else? What degree programs are you most proud? What areas of teaching and knowledge creation have you build a critical mass of faculty?
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Program Integrity FAQs - 0 views
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good for getting lay of the land (such as how State Auth and other elements are under the broader Program Integrity)
Distance Education State Reciprocity Initative Begins Staffing | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Harry Potter Monopoly 101 | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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Harry Potter monopoly analogy to course design
Mobile Learning and the Edited Course | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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The lack of screen real estate will push us to think about what is really important in our classes.
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result in cleaner, sparer, and more elegant learning experience
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What we don't do very well is take things away.
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News: Fair Use Face-Off, Canadian Edition - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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Fair Use Face-Off, Canadian Edition
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Copyright clearinghouses vs Universities
News: Hitting Hard on Fraud - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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financial aid fraud rings associated with online programs