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Old Publishers Dive Into The New: Pearson Inks API Billing Deal With Zuora; Adds Food T... - 0 views

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pearson techcrunch

shared by wlampner on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Plug & Play project is part of a bigger effort that Pearson has been making to get more innovative. That’s especially important for the company’s education division, which makes up 70 percent of Pearson’s business and could potentially be a part of what some consider a big future area for tech growth.
  • being innovative when you’re a large, legacy business can be a challenge both internally — and externally
  • Right now it’s about innovation and partnerships because people still think of [Pearson education] as textbook publishers, but that’s not what we are.
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  • Pearson also has a partnership with Learn Capital to co-invest in startups that are working on products that are adjacent to Pearson’s own interests, specifically in education.
Kristine Howard

WCET State auth updates blog - 0 views

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State_auth

shared by Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    Several months have passed since I last scoured the state regulatory agency websites for information about which institutions must seek approval to operate to be in compliance with state and federal regulations. We undertook the research with our partners, The Southern Regional Education Board, University of Wyoming, and American Distance Education Consortium in December to...
Kristine Howard

600.9a1i - 0 views

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State_auth

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  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    (c) If an institution is offering postsecondary education through distance or correspondence education to students in a State in which it is not physically located or in which it is otherwise subject to State jurisdiction as determined by the State, the institution must meet any State requirements for it to be legally offering postsecondary distance or correspondence education in that State.
Kristine Howard

600.9c Electronic Code of Federal Regulations: - 0 views

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State_auth

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  • Kristine Howard on 27 Sep 12
     
    (c) If an institution is offering postsecondary education through distance or correspondence education to students in a State in which it is not physically located or in which it is otherwise subject to State jurisdiction as determined by the State, the institution must meet any State requirements for it to be legally offering postsecondary distance or correspondence education in that State.
wlampner

Facebook testing features to let users teach online courses - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...let-users-teach-online-courses

elearning education socialmedia

shared by wlampner on 12 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • Facebook is testing new features in its developer community that, if rolled out across the platform, could let anyone on the social networking service teach online courses.
  • initiative, known as Developers Circles,
  • The company is working with online education provider Udacity to create training programs for developers who participate in the circles.
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  • Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently taken an interest in education. He and pediatrician Priscilla Chan, his wife, in 2015 founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which among many initiatives is exploring whether personalized learning can benefit students.
  • I'm nervous about a deep integration of social media and learning. The mix of constant interruption (social media) with a need to focus (learning) seems counterproductive.”
wlampner

Study questions effectiveness of online education for at-risk students - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...online-education-risk-students

elearning research

shared by wlampner on 12 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • According to a new study from the Brookings Institution, students who are the least well prepared for traditional college also fare the worst in online courses. F
  • Thus, while online courses may have the potential to differentiate course work to meet the needs of students with weaker incoming skills, current online courses, in fact, do an even worse job of meeting the needs of these students than do traditional in-person courses,”
  • limited in scope
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  • based on data from DeVry University, a large, nonselective for-profit online college
  • DeVry online classes attempt to replicate traditional in-person classes, except that student-student and student-professor interactions are virtual and asynchronous
  • The study found that the negative associations with online courses are concentrated in lower-performing students
  • wlampner on 12 Jun 17
     
    Study of DeVry students only and the courses sound like they are very poorly designed.
wlampner

Listening to Online Education's Ombudsman - The Digital Campus 2013 - The Chronicle of ... - 0 views

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online education efficacy research elearning

shared by wlampner on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • weighty body of research suggesting that online learning can be just as good as face-to-face.
  • small sample size; inability to control for ubiquitous selection effect
  • really important is first to recognize that online learning isn't any one thing
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  • lack of good estimates of likely cost savings
  • People want to simplify, and sometimes they want to oversimplify,
  • o 'disrupt' or not 'disrupt' is not the way to intelligently discuss online learning,
  • randomized experimental trials are tedious and often beside the point
  • Colleges that wait for perfect evidence risk sinking deeper into a hole
  • There can be a fine line between deliberation and inertia.
  • case for using randomized trials should itself be subject to careful cost-benefit analysis
  • best is the enemy of the good
wlampner

"The Audrey Test": Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education? - 0 views

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EdTech technology

shared by wlampner on 30 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 30 Oct 12
     
    thought provoking and useful
wlampner

What's Competency-Based Education & How's it Different? [Infographic] - 0 views

www.rasmussen.edu/...-based-education-how-different

CBE student_experience

shared by wlampner on 13 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 13 Apr 16
     
    Includes a CBE infographic for students
wlampner

Virtual reality: could it revolutionise higher education? | THE News - 0 views

www.timeshighereducation.com/...revolutionise-higher-education

VR Virtual_reality

shared by wlampner on 03 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Conrad Tucker, an assistant professor of engineering at Pennsylvania State University, has received funding to build a virtual engineering lab where students hold, rotate and fit together virtual parts as they would with their real hands
  • One question his project aims to answer is whether students learn as well in VR as they do in real classrooms, or whether without being physically present with their classmates, they miss out on developing intangible skills such as teamwork
  • The same year saw the University of British Columbia experiment with a full lecture in VR. Five students were given an earlier version of the Oculus Rift headset and sat in a virtual classroom where they watched a gaming lawyer deliver a lecture
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  • with headsets covering their entire field of view, the students were unable to take notes in the real world.
  • ou activate more of your brain because…it’s not a single channel [sense]
  • llow users to toggle between modes, hiding and then revealing the reconstructed parts
  • could, however, help universities to optimise their use of space, reserving real labs for when they are truly needed.
wlampner

The College App That Changed My Life | Higher Ed Beta - 2 views

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CBE App

shared by wlampner on 14 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ’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.
wlampner

The Making of a Teaching Evangelist - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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problem_based_learning active_learning lecture

shared by wlampner on 20 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • Mr. Mazur realized what he had really been teaching them: to memorize formulas.
  • Joy is not a word that often describes the lecture.
  • One humanities professor wrote last year that lectures work because they demand that students pay close attention, connect ideas, and understand how to build an argument.
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  • Mr. Mazur wondered whether lecturing was an ethical teaching choice.
  • a lecture is only as passive as the listener
  • Students learn when they think about what they’re hearing and organize it into salient points. "This places the responsibility for learning on the student,
  • modern zeitgeist places the responsibility on the instructor.
  • Lecturing, he says, serves another important purpose. It reaffirms the importance of expertise and allows students to see how an expert role-models the process of working through a problem.
  • Learning is not a spectator sport,"
  • Lectures are inexpensive for institutions, allowing hundreds of students to be assigned to one faculty member.
  • Mr. Mazur often likes to cite education research suggesting that students overestimate how much they learn from a smoothly delivered lecture.
  • The lecture creates the perfect illusion
  • Students read material before class on an online platform
  • Students post comments on the reading and respond to one another’s annotations
  • comments drive the next class.
  • o answer each problem, students do four things: articulate the problem in their own words, devise a plan to answer it, execute it, and evaluate how well it worked.
  • omplete the problem sets alone before class and work in teams during it to correct errors
  • not graded on how correct their answers are but on their effort and their accuracy in judging how well they understood the problem.
  • udents do complete five hourlong "Readiness Assurance Activities" during the semester. In the first half-hour they solve the problems alone; they can consult the internet but not one another. In the second, they go over the problems again, this time with their teams. Their scores reflect individual mastery and collective contribution.
  • Project-based learning is the center of the new course. Students work in teams. Many projects have low-stakes competitions attached to them, like constructing the most secure safe by using magnets as locks. Other projects have an explicit social benefit, like building musical instruments for an orchestra for poor children in Venezuela.
  • Mr. Mazur has moved himself far offstage; he missed about 40 percent of the meetings this past semester. Class just rolls on without him.
  • Peers, Mr. Mazur says, are a far greater source of motivation than a professor.
  • His syllabus dedicates two paragraphs to the virtues of failure
  • They should see failures, he writes, as "learning opportunities, not negatives, as steppingstones to success."
  • Repeated failure, as he has learned, is necessary for success.
Teresa Potter

Ohio Community Colleges Announce Partnership with Western Governors University | Wester... - 0 views

www.wgu.edu/...ohio_partnership_10-14-16

CBE

shared by Teresa Potter on 07 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • he Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) today announced a new partnership with Western Governors University (WGU) that allows Ohio community college graduates to seamlessly transfer their coursework to WGU while also receiving discounted tuition to the accredited, online university.
  • WGU will:
  • Offer Ohio community colleges’ graduates and staff a five percent 5% tuition discount.
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  • Prepare seamless associate degree to bachelor degree articulation agreements for all related degree programs in education, business, Information Technology and health professions.
  • Create a 3+1 transfer option for OACC colleges’ nursing graduates who possess an Ohio RN license and are employed as a nurse.
  • Graduates and staff of OACC colleges will also be eligible to apply for scholarships offered through the WGU Institutional Partner Fund.
  • OACC college nursing graduates who are eligible for the 3+1 program may also enroll in the MS, Nursing bridge programs, in nursing education or nursing leadership and management. The BS, Nursing degree is awarded to the 3+2 student as they progress toward the MS, Nursing degree.
wlampner

About | Affordable Learning Exchange (OSU) - 0 views

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#OER

shared by wlampner on 17 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 17 Feb 17
     
    "The Affordable Learning Exchange was created to help instructors take ownership of their courses and content. We are here to help navigate the waters of affordable resources and find creative solutions that promote students savings. This includes re-imagining the textbook, encouraging faculty innovation, and empowering our faculty through grants and training opportunities to adopt, adapt, create and share open educational resources"
wlampner

Pearson-backed Startup Aims to Be the Zynga for Learning - 1 views

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Pearson

shared by wlampner on 01 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • wlampner on 01 Feb 12
     
    the site is peddling educational material rather than time-sucking games, and that's an important distinction. As it builds profiles of learners, it starts to make recommendations for college readiness and even career choice - all the while baiting them with the promise of more Yoops. If we can use game mechanics to get kids hooked on virtual-currency powered farm fields, why not learning?
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