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Mathieu Plourde

The Role of Technical Support and Pedagogical Guidance provided to Faculty in Online Pr... - 0 views

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    With growth of online course enrollments outpacing enrollments in traditional courses by 500%, institutions of higher education are experiencing significant changes in terms of long-term strategic planning. Along with providing for the infrastructure requirements associated with online course offerings, the issue of faculty preparedness and training is considered problematic from an administrative perspective.
Mathieu Plourde

Facebook for Universities: recruiting, retention, and alumni relations. Inigral, Inc. T... - 0 views

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    Engage your entire campus community through the first interoperable Facebook application designed for institutions of higher learning.
Mathieu Plourde

No Sucker Left Behind - Fixing Higher Education - 0 views

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    The system is under attack from all sides - and rightly so. The Delta Project report lambasted colleges for doing a poor job of cost containment. Marc Scheer penned No Sucker Left Behind which exposes a system of education that is failing on all fronts - it's too expensive, there is no real access, and the quality is poor.
Mathieu Plourde

Making Common Cause: Electronic Portfolios, Learning, and the Power of Community | Acad... - 0 views

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    Here, excerpting from the conclusion to this volume, we consider how electronic portfolios provide a vehicle for a transition into the future of higher education.
Mathieu Plourde

Emerging technology for active learning - ITUE 2009 - 0 views

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    Emerging technology for active learning. Our discussion will build upon ideas from provocative popular authors along with emerging research from higher education.
Mathieu Plourde

Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) - Political engagement among college freshme... - 0 views

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    College freshman are more politically engaged today than at any point during the last 40 years, with 89.5 percent reporting that they frequently or occasionally discussed politics in the last year, according to UCLA's annual survey of the nation's entering students at four-year institutions.
Mathieu Plourde

Assessing the Future: E-Portfolio Trends, Uses, and Options in Higher Education - 0 views

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    The analysis of the potential benefits in post-secondary settings also includes considerations of the obstacles to institutional adoption and challenges to successful implementation.
Mathieu Plourde

What are Diigo Educator Accounts? - 0 views

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    These are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators. Once your Diigo Educator application is approved, your account will be upgraded to have these additional features:
Mathieu Plourde

Wikis in Higher Education (and at UD) - 0 views

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    My wiki project web page. Focuses a lot on the wiki tool in Sakai.
Mathieu Plourde

Knowledge Overload - 0 views

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    We are researching without having an impact, speaking without being heard and writing without being read. Furthermore, our tenure and promotion procedures reward publication more than they do awareness of the field, thus pushing up conference attendance, and journal and book submissions.
Mathieu Plourde

MIT adopts a university-wide Open Access mandate - 0 views

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    The Provost's Office will make the scholarly article available to the public in an open- access repository. The Office of the Provost, in consultation with the Faculty Committee on the Library System will be responsible for interpreting this policy, resolving disputes concerning its interpretation and application, and recommending changes to the Faculty.
Mathieu Plourde

Factors Influencing Faculty Use of Technology in Online Instruction: A Case Study - 0 views

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    observations at a specific urban university in the mid-west, shows vast variation in terms of faculty who choose to utilize online instructional technologies and a significant lag in desired online development.
Mathieu Plourde

Using the Power of Twitter: Building Online Learning - 0 views

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    I realize there are many amazing posts on the merits of using Twitter to develop a PLN. I also realize that there already exists dozens of collections of tools for making the most of Twitter.
Mathieu Plourde

Forget iTunes U: Students Now Getting College Credit via YouTube - 0 views

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    A computer science professor at an Australian University is doing something revolutionary with YouTube - he's offering students who can't attend his classes college credit for watching his videos. Richard Buckland, a senior lecturer at the University of NSW in Sydney, Australia, was frustrated that high school students with a passion for computing and capable of studying at the college level were not able to make the commute to the university fit into their school day.
Mathieu Plourde

Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - 0 views

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    This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.
Mathieu Plourde

MCCCD Legal Services Department - Intellectual Property - 0 views

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    Nearly every form of tangible expression (books, drawings, software, etc.) is subject to some sort of copyright protection. This site offers legal and District-wide guidelines on copyright protection, including direction on when (under the Fair Use Doctrine) copyrighted materials may be duplicated.
Mathieu Plourde

These Lectures Are Gone in 60 Seconds - 0 views

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    At San Juan, microlectures were introduced in a new online degree program in occupational safety in the fall and are now expanding to subjects like reading, tribal governance, and veterinary studies.
Mathieu Plourde

Teaching with Coursework - 0 views

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    A Stanford site to share faculty practices.
Mathieu Plourde

Discouraging Days for Jobseekers - 0 views

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    With state budgets crippled, endowments declining, and requests for financial aid mounting, universities and colleges around the United States have sharply curtailed faculty hiring
Mathieu Plourde

I wanna be Andre Malan. There, I said it! - 0 views

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    Here's an undergraduate student at UBC articulating a vision for the future that I so thoroughly agree with that it is fills me with a sense of unbounded hope and encouragement.
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