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Mathieu Plourde

Climbing the Ladder of Empirical Education - - 0 views

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    "Anyone who has participated in course redesign efforts likely recognizes the milestones of this progression. That's not an accident. Course redesign, particularly when properly facilitated by experts who are themselves practitioners of Empirical Education, can move the instructors who are going through the redesign process at least partway up the ladder. In fact, it often happens spontaneously."
Mathieu Plourde

"It's Not You, It's the Room"- Are the High-Tech, Active Learning Classrooms Worth It? - 0 views

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    Several institutions have redesigned  traditional learning spaces to better  realize the potential of active,  experiential learning. We compare  student performance in traditional  and active learning classrooms  in a large, introductory biology  course using the same syllabus,  course goals, exams, and instructor
Mathieu Plourde

Introducing the new Google+ - 0 views

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    "Today, we're starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center. Now focused around interests, the new Google+ is much simpler. "
Mathieu Plourde

Podcast: Brian Hughes on Redesigning Course Materials to Reflect Social Media - 0 views

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    "Many institutions have invested substantial resources in diverse initiatives to deliver distance learning and/or enhance campus-based learning with online resources. To these institutional efforts, faculty and students are now adding online tools and resources from beyond the campus. Higher education institutions are confronting the need to connect these various efforts to create more powerful and integrated learning experiences for all of their students. In this interview, Brian Hughes, Director of Social Media at the Teacher's College at Columbia University, discusses the issues surrounding social media integration."
Mathieu Plourde

Bad News For Bieber? Klout Unveils Redesign And A Scoring System That Looks At Real Wor... - 0 views

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    "For the first time, Klout is including measures of real-world influence in its scores - in other words, it's looking for signs that you're Kind Of A Big Deal offline, even if you don't have hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter."
Mathieu Plourde

Many Colleges Now See Centers for Teaching With Technology as Part of 'Innovation Infra... - 0 views

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    "supporting teaching with technology is becoming less about offering training sessions for professors about how to use clickers and course-management systems, and more about coordinating bigger-impact projects like redesigning large introductory courses or leading the creation of a new online-degree program. "
Mathieu Plourde

Making Lab Sections Interactive: More evidence on potential of course redesign - 0 views

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    "Young has reduced the number of students failing, withdrawing or performing below average in Bio 208: Human Anatomy from 50 percent to fewer than 20 percent in about four years, and poorly performing students have watched their grades climb, with continued improvement on the horizon."
Mathieu Plourde

Seven of the Nation's Most Innovative Universities Team-Up to Close Gap Between College... - 0 views

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    "Career services are a natural evolution of focus for the student success movement. If we abandon low-income or first-generation students at graduation with a poorly designed handoff between college-to-career, we risk failing to deliver on the full promise of higher education," said Dr. Bridget Burns, Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance. "Strada Education Network understands that innovation starts with listening to, and understanding, the perspective of students. This project is about providing career services professionals with the capacity and time to redesign career readiness in order to better prepare students for an increasingly dynamic future of work.""
Mathieu Plourde

Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College - 0 views

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    "In a chapter titled "What College Could Be Like," Mr. Khan conjures an image of a new campus in Silicon Valley where students would spend their days working on internships and projects with mentors, and would continue their education with self-paced learning similar to that of Khan Academy. The students would attend ungraded seminars at night on art and literature, and the faculty would consist of professionals the students would work with as well as traditional professors."
Mathieu Plourde

If students designed their own school… it would look like this - 2 views

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    ""It's crazy that in a system that is meant to teach and help the youth there is no voice from the youth at all." That's the opening line in a video called "If students designed their own schools," about The Independent Project, a high school semester designed and implemented entirely by students."
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    This is a really remarkable project, all student driven and Deweyan in its roots.
Mathieu Plourde

Partnering for Transformative Teaching - 0 views

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    Innovation in the curricula, including experimentation with technologies and learning spaces, is most likely to be effective when driven by faculty and student needs and served by integrated support structures. Surveys of IU faculty and graduate students have identified spaces for scholarly community as a critical need. Collaboration across university services (technology, undergraduate education, libraries) delivers a more cohesive and comprehensive experience. The IU Bloomington Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning provides a mix of consultation and workshop spaces, instructional technology facilities, and relaxed forums for exchanging ideas.
Mathieu Plourde

MOOCs Lead Duke To Reinvent On-Campus Courses - 1 views

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    "The big shift: far fewer in-class lectures. Students will watch the lectures on Coursera beginning Monday. "Class will become a time for activities and also teamwork," said Sinnott-Armstrong. He's devised exercises to help on-campus students engage with the concepts in the class, including a college bowl-like competition, a murder mystery night and a scavenger hunt, all to help students develop a deeper understanding of the material presented in the lectures."
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