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For Students Taking Online Courses, a Completion Paradox - 0 views

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Steve Kaufman on 05 Jul 16

Researchers ponder the finding that at community colleges, online classes result in lower grades but more completed degrees.

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Pedagogical Repository - 1 views

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The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. From Wendy - we may want to encourage our faculty to use this, but this also provides an opportunity for them to contribute their own practices.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The University of Central Florida's (UCF) Center for Distributed Learning (CDL) offers the Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) as a public resource for faculty and instructional designers interested in online and blended teaching strategies. Each entry describes a strategy drawn from the pedagogical practice of online/blended teaching faculty, depicts this strategy with artifacts from actual courses, and is aligned with findings from research or professional practice literature. From Wendy - we may want to encourage our faculty to use this, but this also provides an opportunity for them to contribute their own practices. </div>

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Silk - Publish your data online - 1 views

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visualization UADDS_BP4TO data storytelling

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Silk lets anyone create interactive data visualizations, publish websites, and tell interactive stories.
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Silk lets anyone create interactive data visualizations, publish websites, and tell interactive stories. Automatically silks with data in Google sheets.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Silk lets anyone create interactive data visualizations, publish websites, and tell interactive stories. Automatically silks with data in Google sheets.</div>

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

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VR Virtual_reality

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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
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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
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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.
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ou activate more of your brain because…it’s not a single channel [sense]
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llow users to toggle between modes, hiding and then revealing the reconstructed parts
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could, however, help universities to optimise their use of space, reserving real labs for when they are truly needed.
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Screens vs. Print: Does Digital Reading Change How Students Get the Big Picture? - Insi... - 1 views

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e-readers digital textbooks oer

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Among young adults who regularly use smartphones and tablets, just reading a story or performing a task on a screen instead of on paper led to greater focus on concrete details, but less ability to infer meaning or quickly get the gist of a problem,
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Using a digital format can develop a "mental 'habit' of triggering a more detail-focused mindset, one that prioritizes processing local, immediate information rather than considering more abstract, decontextualized interpretations of information
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the paper users were significantly more "abstract" in thinking. Digital participants reported preferring concrete rather than abstract descriptions of a behavior
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But first, they asked a third of the young adults to think about why they would solve a problem—a way to trigger an abstract frame of thinking—and asked another third to think about how they would solve a problem—designed to prime them for concrete thinking. The third group had no priming. Of the digital readers who had been primed to think abstractly, 48 percent chose the correct car—significantly more than the 25 percent of digital readers primed to think concretely,
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How Workplace Design Influences Worker Productivity - 0 views

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Steve Kaufman on 05 Apr 16

Whether you work in an office building or from a home office, the design of your workplace definitely influences the quality and speed of your work. This especially true when it comes to tasks which require focus. Studies examining productivity at work have shown that the physical space in which people work has the most impact on their ability to focus.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Whether you work in an office building or from a home office, the design of your workplace definitely influences the quality and speed of your work. This especially true when it comes to tasks which require focus. Studies examining productivity at work have shown that the physical space in which people work has the most impact on their ability to focus.</div>

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

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CBE student_experience

shared by wlampner on 13 Apr 16 - No Cached

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Includes a CBE infographic for students

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Walden Expands Competency-Based Master's Program -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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Competency-Based Education and Accreditation: A Personal Perspective (Part 2) | The Evo... - 0 views

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CBE accreditation

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Vietnam - Carlos Matallín - 0 views

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storytelling user.experience

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 29 Apr 16 - No Cached

Patrick Tabatcher on 29 Apr 16

An interesting (if subtle) way to link a graphic to the position of text within a story. Scroll down to see the route highlight on the map. Also, interesting way to display footnotes next to the relative content.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">An interesting (if subtle) way to link a graphic to the position of text within a story. Scroll down to see the route highlight on the map. Also, interesting way to display footnotes next to the relative content.</div>

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A Bear's-Eye View of Yellowstone - 0 views

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infographics biology biology_apps bears

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 05 May 16 - No Cached

Patrick Tabatcher on 05 May 16

Interesting website that provides some vignettes in the lives of 4 bears in Yellowstone who were fitted with cameras.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting website that provides some vignettes in the lives of 4 bears in Yellowstone who were fitted with cameras.</div>

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The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 m... - 1 views

polygraph.cool/index.html

gender infographics

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16 - No Cached

Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16

Analysis of gender and age of 2,000 film scripts. Pretty interesting and lots of nifty little charts and info-graphics.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Analysis of gender and age of 2,000 film scripts. Pretty interesting and lots of nifty little charts and info-graphics.</div>

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The Writers, Directors, and Producers who Make Films that Fail the Bechdel Test - 0 views

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gender infographics

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Patrick Tabatcher on 18 May 16

Another page that looks at gender in films. Also with some nice charts.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Another page that looks at gender in films. Also with some nice charts. </div>

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The True Size Of ... interactive map - 0 views

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mapping infographics geography

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 19 Jul 16 - No Cached

Patrick Tabatcher on 19 Jul 16

An interactive map that allows users to drag countries, continents, etc... around the map to view their relative size

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HTML, EPUB, MOBI, PDF, WTF - creating an ebook - 0 views

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epub ebook ebooks tips.tricks

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached

Patrick Tabatcher on 16 Jan 15

Some information on creating ePubs and PDFs from HTML files.

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A deeper look at Outlook for iOS and Android - Office Blogs - 1 views

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Hallelujah! Pope Francis Launches Education Startup Accelerator | EdSurge News - 0 views

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education startup

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20+ Edtech Pick Up Lines for Your Valentine's Day Pleasure | EdSurge News - 0 views

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wlampner on 18 Feb 15

a little late but some great ideas here for the DDS blog post headlines.

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Photo Editor | Polarr - Online Photo Editor. Now support RAW photo editing. - 0 views

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web2.0 photography photo_editing

shared by Patrick Tabatcher on 24 Feb 15 - No Cached

Patrick Tabatcher on 24 Feb 15

A new, and free, online photo editor. Currently in development.

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Innovative Pedagogical Approaches for Higher Education - 0 views

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education contest elearning blended innovation

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REIMAGINE EDUCATION The global awards for innovative higher education pedagogies enhancing learning and employability
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Despite years of discussion about the need to reform higher education most programs, whether academic or private enterprise, still rely on traditional pedagogical approaches that center on "teaching" (not learning) and often remain isolated from the demands of employers.
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The Wharton-QS Stars Awards 2014: Reimagine Education took place on December 9th in Philadelphia.
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global competition received submissions from 427 universities and enterprises from 43 countries with 21 awards judged by a panel of 25 international experts – a 'who’s who' of higher education.
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wlampner on 05 Mar 15

Oscars of innovation in higher education. Maybe some ideas here that could inspire our faculty to think outside the box?

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