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Patrick Tabatcher

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collaboration online-collaboration

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 17 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 17 Jan 14
     
    A fast and simple document collaboration service. Start a document and share the link. Good for "quick" collaborations where the text will be copied and pasted into a more permanent location.
wlampner

How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model - Government - The Chroni... - 0 views

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shared by wlampner on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Public colleges and universities, which educate the bulk of all American college students, have been slower than their counterparts in the for-profit sector to embrace the potential of online learning to offer pathways to degrees.
  • continuum of organizational levels
  • low end of the spectrum, course availability, pricing, transferability of credit, and other issues are all determined at the institutional level, by colleges, departments, or individual professors, resulting in a patchwork collection of online courses that's difficult for students to navigate.
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  • Step 2, institutions further collaborate through shared contracts on resources, like learning-management systems
  • The first step is for state institutions to collaborate to establish a searchable clearinghouse of online courses and degree
  • report identifies five cumulative steps that build toward State U Online and gives an example of a state or system at each step
  • Step 3, systems also provide shared student-support services, such as advising, that can be used by students at all institutions in the system,
  • Step 4, an entire state, or a system of public higher-education institutions within the state, achieves all the previous levels of collaboration and in addition makes it easy for students to transfer credit among institutions.
  • enroll in a program at their "home" institution, but can easily take classes at any institution within the consortium.
  • Step 5 carries that concept beyond state borders. Students can take courses at any institution in such a multistate consortium and not worry about whether their credits will transfer, because institutional agreements within the consortium make that automatic.
  • offers practical suggestions about concerns like building sustainable revenue streams that are less dependent on allocations from legislatures, and on providing incentives and support for faculty members to offer online courses.
wlampner

3 Universities Will Grant Credit for 2U's Online Courses - Wired Campus - The Chronicle... - 0 views

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online collaboration elearning

shared by wlampner on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • First, the courses will be taught entirely online—an option that Southern Methodist has never before offered to undergraduates.
  • taught by professors at other universities
  • ourses, offered through the online-education company 2U, will come from a consortium of colleges participating in 2U’s Semester Online program
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  • will allow Southern Methodist to see how well online courses work for its students without committing resources to building its own
  • students will be allowed to take a maximum of four courses through 2U
  • prevent cannibalizing enrollment from its own courses
  • will allow each student to take only one Semester Online course this fall
  • courses have already passed through a faculty review.
  • during their time at Southern Methodist
  • U has increasingly pitched itself as the anti-MOOC online provider.
  • teach the courses live, via Webcam, to virtual classrooms of no more than 20 students.
  • 4,200 per student per course.
  • purposefully exclusive.
  • teaching institutions supply high-quality courses, while the affiliates supply high-quality students.
Patrick Tabatcher

In Iceland, constitutions are written on Facebook -- Engadget - 0 views

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facebook online-collaboration

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    I've not thought of using Facebook as a true collaboration tool.
wlampner

U.S. Department of Education Expands Innovation in Higher Education through the Experim... - 0 views

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shared by wlampner on 23 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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  • release a notice inviting applications this week for a $1.5 million grant to study online education which will contribute to the growing body of evidence about what works in online education, especially for low-income and first-generation students.
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