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Report gauges potential risks to scholars and universities if publishers capture resear... - 0 views
ANU Online Coffee Courses - 0 views
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"Coffee courses are an easy way to learn new ideas for using technology in your teaching. Each coffee course will cover a new topic in education technology, teaching online, digital tools, pedagogy, or trends in technology. It is equivalent to a one- or two-hour face-to-face training session, but is done at your own pace from your own desk. Courses are offered regularly through the blog, and take place over one week. Each day while the course runs, a short activity or video will be posted to the blog for you to do. It should take about 15 - 20 minutes, just enough time to enjoy a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever you prefer). For more information, please see this post about coffee courses. You can do any course at any time and all are welcome to participate. If you would like recognition on your employment record for completing the course, you can register for the session on HORUS prior to the course starting (available for ANU staff only)." From Wendy: I love the blog idea! Participants from their University can review each course and post a substantive comment to the blog in order to get the certificate. We could do this with workshop. It would help ensure faculty are really learning, since their posts would be public. Thoughts? Also note that all of their content is posted with a CC-BY license in case there's something we can use. It's also a model we can follow?
Gradescope - 0 views
College in hot water over inclusive-access programs and student choice - 0 views
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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The Hope and Hype of the Academic Innovation Center - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"A 2015 survey found that a growing number of colleges were marrying their academic-technology units with their teaching and learning centers in hopes of igniting fundamental reforms across campus. A common mission for innovation centers, particularly at large public universities like Michigan State, is improving student success. That may include revamping large introductory courses, training professors in design thinking and active learning, and using analytics to improve retention and graduation rates."
Kyle Bowen: Robot Writers, Open Education, and the Future of Edtech | EDUCAUSE - 0 views
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Bowen is part of a team that has developed algorithms for computers to learn how to write textbooks by extracting factual information.
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if a machine writes a textbook or other resource, who is the author?
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just who owns the copyright if the final deliverable qualifies as a derivative work?
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Cengage offers new OER-based product for general education courses - 1 views
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Cengage predicts that the use of OER -- free, adaptable educational course materials -- could triple over the next five years
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eady to “embrace the movement” -- adding their own services and technology to create “value-added digital solutions that help institutions use OER to its best advantage.”
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aking OER materials freely available online from sites such as OpenStax, Cengage has added its own assessments, content and technology to the materials, which will be delivered through an “intuitive, outcomes-based” platform that can be integrated into students’ learning management systems
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"Individualized learning environments are still a long way off" - 0 views
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Creating content is an involved process. You can’t simply take a textbook, perhaps in digital form, and load it into a learning management system, bit by bit. The material needs to be organized by degree of difficulty and learning objectives. It has to be grouped into modules and tagged to identify the information that is intended for experts, the material students are expected to learn, and the material that is primarily meant to provoke thought.
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Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
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he system might determine early on that a given student will find it difficult to pass a test. It could then offer materials to enhance that student’s understanding.
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Enrollment Reports | nc-sara - 0 views
A Midwest community college pushes for widespread use of OER - 0 views
Study questions effectiveness of online education for at-risk students - 1 views
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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
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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,”
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limited in scope
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Facebook testing features to let users teach online courses - 0 views
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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.
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initiative, known as Developers Circles,
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The company is working with online education provider Udacity to create training programs for developers who participate in the circles.
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