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The Second Digital Divide: Disparity in Online Skills Leaving Many Students Behind | NE... - 0 views

  • While digital learning can infuse an exciting variety of technological resources into the classroom, many students lack the basic understanding and skills to maximize the academic potential of today’s technology.
  • experts came together to discuss ways to overcome what’s been dubbed a “second-level digital divide” in students’ abilities to use digital resources.
  • governments and schools need to make complimentary adjustments in digital readiness to help the population they serve use the tools that they’re pushing at them.”
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  • greater access doesn’t necessarily correlate to mastery of the technology.
  • The study found that 29% of Americans had low levels of ‘digital readiness,’ and that as many as 70 million Americans are not ‘digitally ready’ for online use.
  • how do you produce quality homework if you do not know how to properly research information available on the Internet?
  • the best way to overcome this divide is for educators to incorporate technology into their curriculums so that students can learn from a young age how to harness the academic potential of digital resources.
  • even while technology use in schools may be on the rise, students still lack the necessary digital readiness needed to not only succeed in school, but be prepared for a society that’s rapidly becoming more digitally centered.
  • The world has lost its patience with those who can’t navigate the online world. And because those folks who cannot navigate the online world are typically uneducated, poor, or otherwise vulnerable, this group is really easy to overlook.”
eipopel

Everything about Online Learning - 3 views

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    Just a fun infographic about online learning
durhamls

What  Do  Unsuccessful  Online  Students  Want  Us  to  Know? | The Sloan Con... - 0 views

  • he number one reason why students felt that they were not successful in their online course was because they “got behind and couldn’t catch up.”
tammyhodo

Free Technology for Teachers - 0 views

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    Article on free tools available to those who teach online
Tom Woodward

Abnormal Psychology Online | Summer 2014 - 3 views

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    Student submitted resources using Gravity Forms to WordPress
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    Awesome! Tom, this inspired me on my rampage design with project KSR. Is this a course you work with?
durhamls

Wiley: Motivating and Retaining Online Students: Research-Based Strategies Th... - 1 views

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    my question is ... why is this ... a BOOK?
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    Oh, Lyndsay, don't get me started on our current systems of scholarly communication... :)
durhamls

The Erosion of Faculty Rights - 2 views

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    Important cautionary note, especially re: contracts with commercial companies. For VCU policy see: http://www.assurance.vcu.edu/Policy%20Library/Intellectual%20Property%20Policy.pdf
durhamls

The "Digital" Scholarship Disconnect (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 1 views

  • cholarship is scholarship
  • Still, in all of these examples of digital scholarship, a key challenge remains: How can we curate and manage data now that so much of it is being produced and collected in digital form?
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      it's that old phrase - what's the use in doing the research if you don't tell anyone about it? same thing.  if you've got all this great data and publish it somewhere but we don't have a way of aggregating that data in the varied publications - how are we ever going to find all the great work that's being done?
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  • The scholarly community needs to find new answers to these questions of organization, preservation, and evaluation in the digital environment.
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      i'll pose the question i asked using #vcuocdi - how do people catalog their student products from semester to semester?  where does that live?  what's the point of keeping it all on your external hard drive? is there a way we can share that Openly (using the concepts of Open Education and Access) ... 
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      i would think providing access to student generated products along with accompanying rubrics would be a fantastic way of advancing evaluation
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