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wlampner

Cengage offers new OER-based product for general education courses - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...duct-general-education-courses

OER

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  • Cengage predicts that the use of OER -- free, adaptable educational course materials -- could triple over the next five years
  • 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.”
  • 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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  • psychology, American government and sociology, and more courses in science, economics and the humanities will be available this fall.
  • some materials that were previously under a Cengage copyright, will be registered under an open CC-BY license so that institutions can adapt and customize the content
  • But for those who want to use the OpenNow platform, fees start at $25 per student per course. “The $25 is for the delivery of content that’s aligned to assessment and learning objectives, the additional assessments and videos we either curated or created, and the outcomes-based platform with personalization and analytics
  • many problems faced by traditional publishers -- how to reduce prices, how to enable customers to customize content, how to ensure students have their materials on the first day of class -- were problems that OER can solve. “So why not use OER to solve them?
  • s OER has gained momentum, more and more companies want to attach themselves to the idea of being open. But for each product that’s launched, we need to keep asking questions. Is it really open, or is it just being branded as open? Open is not just a set of attributes, it’s a set of values and practices that make education better.”
wlampner

"Individualized learning environments are still a long way off" - 0 views

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NGDLE

shared by wlampner on 06 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
  • 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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  • privacy regulations are an obstacle
  • he 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.
  • Students need to be able to rate content and view others’ ratings and reviews.
  • 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.
  • How well the team works together is also assessed.
  • But if I have upwards of 5,000 students, a certain dynamism is created. Suddenly I have 100 or 200 people in the “first row of the lecture hall” who are very active and serve to motivate the rest of the group. It’s fascinating to see how that works in the online environment.
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

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

Born Accessible « Benetech - 0 views

www.benetech.org/...born-accessible

accessibility

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  • wlampner on 24 Apr 17
     
    "As the nonprofit tech company operating Bookshare, the largest library of accessible books in the world, Benetech believes the time is right for the publishing world to seize this era of opportunity. We believe that all content born digital can-and should-be born accessible. We understand how to navigate this new world of opportunity-both by identifying the possibilities and working to resolve the challenges. Tremendous progress has been made when it comes to retro-fitting books, especially those that are primarily text, but as digital content becomes richer and more complex, the challenge of making it born accessible will require broader partnerships and technological innovation. The resources we've provided below are meant to help publishers and the myriad of other new, digital content creators understand the basics of how to make content born accessible. These resources highlight the challenges that images, interactivity, math equations and other complex features pose, but also demonstrate how they can be addressed. Working together, we know that accessibility can become a critical component in the creation of all content"
wlampner

Dartmouth Learning Fellows | Innovating education in the classroom - 0 views

sites.dartmouth.edu/learningfellows

elearning course_design students

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  • Learning Fellows are talented Dartmouth undergraduates interested in teaching and education. Learning Fellows work directly with Dartmouth professors to enhance and streamline classroom learning environments. In class, Learning Fellows help facilitate group problem solving sessions, lead small group dialogues, provide academic support to their peers during lectures and labs, and promote deeper engagement with course material. There are several “types” of Learning Fellows on campus, each trained to addressed specific needs of faculty and students.
Patrick Tabatcher

USAFacts - 0 views

www.usafacts.org

infographics big.data statistics government

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  • Patrick Tabatcher on 18 Apr 17
     
    A site funded by Steve Ballmer that provides federal, state and local government data.
Patrick Tabatcher

LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems - 0 views

ncase.me/loopy

simulation visualization infographics data-visualization

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 12 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • Patrick Tabatcher on 12 Apr 17
     
    An intersting tool for creating interactive simulations. Scroll down and look at a few of the sample. They are all animated so that you can press play and then use one of the up/down arrows on any node to kick off a simulation.
wlampner

Thinking Small About Online Learning | Technology and Learning - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ng-small-about-online-learning

online business_model

shared by wlampner on 07 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • 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
  • An alternative way to think about online learning is not about scale - or even really about revenue generation - but about specialization.
  • 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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  • The economics of online education mean that it is possible to build a very small program that is financially sustainable.  If the focus is institutional differentiation and program quality - economic sustainability should be enough
  • Online teaching is the world’s greatest faculty development program
  • The instructional designers that you will bring to campus to build a quality online program will end up working on residential courses.
  • faculty teaching online in a small program are the same faculty teaching on-ground - and they bring all their new course design and active learning skills developed in their online teaching to the face-to-face classroom
  • The real online learning story is the extent that distance education has been a catalyst to improve all the teaching and learning that happens on campus.
wlampner

Beyond Videos: 4 Ways Instructional Designers Can Craft Immersive Educational Media | E... - 1 views

www.edsurge.com/...ft-immersive-educational-media

online videos retention

shared by wlampner on 31 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs.
  • resourceful teachers and nonprofits like Khan Academy are still creating low-budget screencasts.
  • et, until we get the learning design right, these questions about production values are premature
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  • makes little sense to convert your narrated PowerPoint into a 360 video if you’re still not sure whether students walk away having learned from the content.
  • This is where instructional designers come in
  • ven if an instructional designer can get an expert to explain a concept clearly, this sometimes has little effect on student understanding
  • students bring their own prior knowledge and misconceptions to educational media
  • ideo presents concepts in a clear, well-illustrated way, students believe they are learning, but they do not engage with the media on a deep enough level to realize that what has been presented differs from their own prior knowledge,
  • ou need a little friction in your educational media to actually modify the viewer’s understanding of the world and get the new understanding to stick
  • talk through the steps that people will need to take to apply their learning or complete an assignment
  • Relate” videos get the student to feel connected to the instructor. They seek to establish instructor presence. They also prompt students to reflect on their own prior experiences with the topic and reasons for taking the course.
  • arrate” videos share stories, anecdotes, or case studies that illustrate a concept or put the learning in context. They tap into the power of narrative to make learning sticky.
  • videos turn out best if I help the expert do four things: relate, narrate, demonstrate, and debate
  • “Debate” videos are perhaps the most important if you want students to actually change the way they think. These videos explicitly surface and address the misconceptions that students have about a domain and showcase competing points of view.
  • that social belonging interventions can be the key to helping students persis
  • coaching your experts to unfold their narratives in ways that will be riveting to an audience
  • A study by Columbia University School of Continuing Education found that videos in an online course that get the highest number of views have a direct connection to the course assignments
  • Demonstrate” videos illustrate how to do something in a step-by-step way.
  • focus on the places where people tend to make mistakes
  • gaps between novice understanding and expert knowledge
  • As the instructional designer, you should also be looking for controversies that might have surfaced about the expert’s work
  • minefields of misconceptions and asking the instructor to unpack them can yield rich pedagogical footage
  • o film a “debate” video, you can also invite someone else into the shoot—such as a colleague or a student—and have them discuss a topic with the instructor or receive feedback on a piece of work
  • alternative viewpoints or ways of doing things, you trigger higher cognitive load for viewers, but also prompt deeper engagement
  • tudents who watched a video dialogue involving alternative conceptions reported investing greater mental effort and achieved higher posttest scores than students who received a standard lecture-style presentation
wlampner

9 Proven Ways for Instructors to Address Online Student Retention - TeachOnline - 1 views

teachonline.asu.edu/...dress-online-student-retention

retention online

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  • wlampner on 28 Mar 17
     
    Includes citations that could be helpful as we develop our retention series.
Steve Kaufman

BGSU's 2017 Teaching and Learning Fair - 1 views

www.bgsu.edu/...eaching-and-learning-fair.html

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  • Steve Kaufman on 23 Mar 17
     
    BGSU's Teaching and Learning Conference (something to look at as a way to lay out information for NEXT?)
Steve Kaufman

These are the 10 breakthrough technologies you need to know about right now - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...2017

education tools

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  • Steve Kaufman on 21 Mar 17
     
    These technologies all have staying power. They will affect the economy and our politics, improve medicine, or influence our culture. Some are unfolding now; others will take a decade or more to develop. But you should know about all of them right now.
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