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Mathieu Plourde

Your Problem Isn't Motivation - 0 views

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    "Each attempt to "motivate" himself will only increase his stress and guilt as it widens the gap between his motivation and his follow-through, between how badly he wants to work out and his failure to do so. We have a misconception that if we only cared enough about something, we would do something about it. But that's not true. "
Mathieu Plourde

20+ Digital Storytelling Apps - 1 views

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    "Educators now have 100s of fantastic free online tools to help their students create and learn through digital storytelling. Many of these online tools have free apps available on i-devices and Android devices. Through digital storytelling we motivate our learners to apply, contextualize, visualize, and personalize the knowledge they learn."
Mathieu Plourde

What Are The Ingredients For Self-Directed Learning? - 1 views

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    The students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning and personal growth that are possible when teenagers feel ownership of their high school experience, when they learn things that matter to them and when they learn together. In such a setting, school capitalizes on rather than thwarts the intensity and engagement that teenagers usually reserve for sports, protest or friendship.
Mathieu Plourde

Shirky, Bady and For-Profit Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Why is it that introducing profit as a motivator into higher education makes that endeavor suspect, while we don't seem to believe this to be true for journalism, publishing, media, technology or any other information or service industry?
Mathieu Plourde

iStabilizer - 1 views

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    With our lightweight and compact tripods, dollies, monopods and mounts, iStabilizer helps amateurs and professionals alike, turn ordinary camera work into extraordinary works of art. Our team of highly motivated creative individuals are committed to providing the highest level of product performance and service, for many years to come.
Mathieu Plourde

Evaluating a MOOC - 0 views

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    "MOOC success, in other words, is not individual success. We each have our own motivations for participating in a MOOC, and our own rewards, which may be more or less satisfied. But MOOC success emerges as a consequence of individual experiences. It is not a combination or a sum of those experiences - taking a poll won't tell us about them - but rather a result of how those experiences combined or meshed together."
Mathieu Plourde

A Tale of Two MOOCs @ Coursera: Divided by Pedagogy - 0 views

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    "The two MOOCs at Coursera discussed here are representative of the clashes between the views on how people learn. And people do want to learn, are motivated; are eager to take charge of their learning, make connections, expand their network and construct knowledge. The Web as a classroom creates opportunities for learning and teaching like never before. As the learner's needs change, so does the role of the instructor, and if he or she implements appropriate pedagogical methods for the learning context, both will have opportunities to expand knowledge consistent with their own learning goals and needs."
Mathieu Plourde

The Evolving use of Badges in Education - 0 views

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    " Reward-motivated learning: Mesolimbic activation precedes memory formation provides easy to read findings to support the claim that rewards promote learning. The reward structure seems to have many positive effects not only on learning, but on the learner's personal development. Learners are able to gain confidence and develop openness to others through virtual games and the reward system."
Mathieu Plourde

Digital Badges for Professional Development - 1 views

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    Higher education institutions and other organizations interested in supporting learning are experimenting with digital badges to guide, motivate, document, and validate formal and informal learning.
Mathieu Plourde

5 Reasons College Students Should Be in Professional Organizations - 0 views

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    "Take professional associations, for example. They exist in essentially every industry, and most offer substantially discounted student rates. Yet in my experience, not many college students are motivated enough to get involved. Should they? Here are five reasons why students should be active in associations that align with their career path."
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Study looks at impact of adjunct hiring on college spending patterns - 0 views

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    "the reports really show that the shift to a contingent academic work force was motivated by economic (and, I would argue, political) concerns -- disempowering the faculty by making them economically precarious of course reduces their influence and weakens shared governance, giving administrators more power."
Mathieu Plourde

Home - MOOC Campus - 1 views

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    The idea is simple. Online and DIY learners unite at a beautiful mountain resort to live an extraordinary lifestyle in a dynamic community of smart and motivated people.
Mathieu Plourde

We Must Prepare Ph.D. Students for the Complicated Art of Teaching - Commentary - The C... - 0 views

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    "pedagogy has become a much more complicated process that has evolved from an art that one can acquire by oneself to a subject requiring formal preparation. The need for such training is all the more urgent because of the conditions that many graduate students will encounter in their professional careers. Only one-quarter of the recent Ph.D.'s seeking academic careers are finding jobs in research universities. Most of the others obtain positions in institutions with students who tend to be less motivated and less prepared for college than the undergraduates their teachers knew, and teaching them successfully will be a greater challenge."
Mathieu Plourde

The Growth Mindset - 0 views

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    "When students and educators have a growth mindset, they understand that intelligence can be developed. Students focus on improvement instead of worrying about how smart they are. They work hard to learn more and get smarter. Based on years of research by Stanford University's Dr. Dweck, Lisa Blackwell Ph.D., and their colleagues, we know that students who learn this mindset show greater motivation in school, better grades, and higher test scores."
Mathieu Plourde

MOOCs as Neocolonialism: Who Controls Knowledge? - 0 views

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    "I don't mean to imply any untoward motives by the makers of MOOCs. I'm not arguing that the content or methodologies of most current MOOCs are wrong because they are based on the dominant Western academic approaches. But I do believe it is important to point out that a powerful emerging educational movement strengthens the currently dominant academic culture, perhaps making it more difficult for alternative voices to be heard."
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edspire | The Search Engine for Online Learning - 0 views

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    "Welcome to the search engine for online learning, what is your motivation?"
Mathieu Plourde

Faculty Coalition: It's Time to Examine MOOC and Online Ed Profit Motives - 1 views

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    A coalition of faculty groups has declared war against online learning, particularly massive open online courses (MOOCs), because it said it believes that the fast expansion of this form of education is being promulgated by corporations - specifically for-profit colleges and universities and education technology companies - at the expense of student education and public interest.
Mathieu Plourde

Are MOOCs Missing the Mark? - 1 views

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    "I think there may be a certain type of learner that this works for - someone who is highly motivated and purposeful, who is seeking out specific knowledge. And someone who does not require much human interaction - because in spite of the rhetoric about personalization, lectures are inherently impersonal, and videos of lectures are doubly so.   So if the MOOC is ushering in a golden age, democratizing access to knowledge, it seems to have hit a bit of a bump. I think the bump in the road is the learner."
Mathieu Plourde

CEO Elon Musk opens up Tesla's patents to all - 0 views

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    "Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers," he wrote. "We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla's position in this regard."
Mathieu Plourde

Will collective intelligence change the way we work? - 0 views

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    "in a knowledge-based and innovation-driven economy, in high tech, R&D-oriented industries, the critical factors of business success are often precisely those benefits of decentralized decision making: freedom, flexibility, motivation, creativity."
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