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Julie Whitehead

WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies - 0 views

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    WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education.
Julie Whitehead

Innovations in Higher Education? Hah! - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 0 views

  • It takes a different skill from classroom teaching, and it is more expensive than chalk.
  • Either way, most faculty will need help in becoming students again. While more-effective teaching should be its own reward, a major professional-development effort would provide a new opportunity to realign institutional and faculty goals. A radical expression would be to change the rules of tenure to require faculty to teach online or otherwise demonstrate their facility with 21st-century methodologies, as virtually every other employer now requires of their work force.
  • Ph.D. candidates should be encouraged to pursue alternatives to the traditional burnt offerings of scholarly monographs and books.
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  • George Eliot app, an interactive timeline, a digital repository of manuscripts, an online concordance of Middlemarch, or a Google mash-up of real and fictional settings in Victorian fiction—which could then become great tools for undergraduate teaching.
  • instructional technology fellows," who are doctoral students assigned to work with faculty and students on technological enhancements to the curriculum.
  • openness to change is an essential prerequisite to change
  • beginning with faculty who teach with digital gusto, and who are themselves qualified to direct technology-rich projects that will characterize an exciting new generation of scholars and teachers.
Julie Whitehead

Building Books for Mobile - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    overview of tools to build ebooks
Julie Whitehead

Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    How can we reach more learners, more effectively, and with greater impact?
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    chapters and case studies
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