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Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash - 0 views

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    "Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world's most generous community of photographers"
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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?
wlampner

Gradescope - 0 views

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    "Gradescope streamlines the tedious parts of grading paper-based, digital, and code assignments while providing insights into how your students are doing."
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Trump administration official describes plan to 'rethink' higher education through upco... - 0 views

  • 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
  • re-examination of requirements for online education
  • faculty interaction and state authorization rules
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  • evaluating rules for competency-based education and the outsourcing of academic programs to nonaccredited providers
  • ccreditors have clamored for the department to get rid of the credit-hour definition, complaining it is difficult for them to track. Officials from some colleges, particularly those offering competency-based programs, have argued that the standard makes it difficult to comply with federal aid requirements.
  • The credit hour probably interferes with innovation almost more than anything
  • biggest providers of nontraditional education today -- online colleges -- have far more data on faculty instruction and student engagement than any other type of institution. And accreditors, she said, would come up with new ways to evaluate academic workloads based on that data.
  • department will propose that negotiators discuss federal rules for the outsourcing of portions of academic programs to nonaccredited or noncollege providers
  • Currently, no more than half of a program can be administered by an outside entity, such as an online program management (OPM) company
  • uild on lessons being learned from an Obama-era experiment to allow such partnerships to receive federal aid, dubbed the EQUIP program
  • e department wants to put more of an onus on colleges to justify not taking transfer credit,
Patrick Tabatcher

4 Ways to Fine-Tune Academic Innovation in Higher Ed -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • 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.
Patrick Tabatcher

How to Make Your PowerPoint Presentation Design Better - 2 views

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    Nifty guide on how to improve your powerpoint designs
Patrick Tabatcher

How to Record Narration in a PowerPoint Presentation - 0 views

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    Handy tutorial on recording a narrated powerpoint.
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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."
Patrick Tabatcher

Perma.cc - 0 views

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    A nifty way to preserve links to sources, similar to Bit.ly but, with an archival bent.
wlampner

Kyle Bowen: Robot Writers, Open Education, and the Future of Edtech | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

  • Bowen is part of a team that has developed algorithms for computers to learn how to write textbooks by extracting factual information.
  • if a machine writes a textbook or other resource, who is the author?
  • just who owns the copyright if the final deliverable qualifies as a derivative work?
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  • The single most exciting aspect for him, he explains, is accessibility. The advent of free or low-cost textbooks for underserved populations — especially within STEM fields, which advance so quickly that traditional books are typically out of date the moment they’re printed — is a very exciting prospect and, as Bowen puts it, ‘a powerful idea.’
  • he platform uses intelligent algorithms that search through OER repositories and return relevant resources that can be combined, remixed, and reused in the support of specific learning goals.
  • We could even have entire learning spaces that adapt to suit the specific needs of faculty or students
Patrick Tabatcher

Free vector silhouettes | silhouetteAC - 2 views

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