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Amyaz Moledina

Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational ou... - 0 views

  • Research presented here by researchers from Wabash College -- and based on national data sets -- finds that there may be a minimal relationship between what colleges spend on education and the quality of the education students receive. Further, the research suggests that colleges that spend a fraction of what others do, and operate with much higher student-faculty ratios and greater use of part-time faculty members, may be succeeding educationally as well as their better-financed (and more prestigious) counterparts
  • 45 colleges and universities, most of them liberal arts colleges,
  • good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty," high expectations and academic challenge, interaction with ideas and people different from one's own, and "deep learning" through characteristics identified by the National Survey of Student Engagement.
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      The outcomes variables are as per NSSE
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  • Blaich isolated 10 colleges (he said later that most but not all were liberal arts colleges) that had very similar scores on the good practices related to teaching. Their spending per student, however, ranged from $9,225 to $53,521 (with corresponding tuition rates). Others at the high end of per-student spending were at $44,429 and $34,172. Three other colleges, however, were achieving the same educational impact with spending per student of about $15,000
  • suggest that the quality of instruction from part-timers can be just as high as from full-timers, so maybe the issue is finding the best way to hire and retain them. (He suggested full-year contracts over course-by-course.)
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    survey shows that colleges (w.liberal arts in sample) that have more spending per students, part time faculty and higher faculty-student ratios, get similar results on the NSSE score. A NSEE variable is "good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty"
Jon Breitenbucher

MOOCs prompt some faculty members to refresh teaching styles | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "Amid the various influences that massive open online courses have had on higher education in their short life so far -- the topic of a daylong conference here Monday -- this may be among the more unexpected: The courses may be prompting some faculty to pay more attention to their teaching styles than they ever have before." - this was something that administrators from Stanford mentioned in the Educause Learning Initiatives conference when discussing the biggest benefits they had seen from developing MOOCs
Jon Breitenbucher

Online Education May Make Top Colleges More Elite, Speakers Say - Technology - The Chro... - 0 views

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    "Professors might be surprised by what the data tell them. Eric Mazur, a professor of physics at Harvard, drew murmurs from the crowd-which mostly consisted of Harvard and MIT faculty members-when he showed research indicating that students at a lecture have brain activity roughly equivalent to when they watch television." - this doesn't seem to surprising. There are some other interesting ideas mentioned like "Maybe we could have 100 people register for a seminar," Mr. Rabkin said. The students could work through the first 12 weeks independently and online, "and that teacher can finish the seminar five different times in the course of a 15-week semester, spending the last three weeks with each of those groups of 20."
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    I agree with this brain activity finding. Students constantly come to me and say "I understand what you are saying in class but when you ask me questions outside of class I do not know what to do." They are not paying attention. Even when I teach to the test, the results from online questions are equivalent (I need to check this formally). This has forced me to rely more on solving open ended problems in groups and getting students to write their own answers. So my principles class is turning into a first year problem solving seminar!
Jon Breitenbucher

Welcome to Star Scholar U. - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Would this be something any of our Wooster faculty would consider? Does it harken back to the days where teachers were paid with livestock, vegetables, etc. and were paid because the student felt they had learned something of value?
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay says faculty involved in MOOCs may be making rope for professional hangings | Ins... - 0 views

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    Some warnings about what institutions might be losing with the rush to MOOCs
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on issues related to what digital scholarship 'counts' for tenure and promotion |... - 0 views

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    How do we help faculty understand this issue better?
Jon Breitenbucher

Warming Up to MOOC's - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Kind of what we began to discuss at the Oct. meeting. Use the MOOC to flip the class. Our faculty spend their time with students going deeper into the subject and let the MOOC handle the content.
Jon Breitenbucher

Build Your Own Open Access Journal: An Interview with Rob Walsh of Scholastica - ProfHa... - 0 views

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    I sent this to some of the Fellows a few months (3-4) ago. This article gives a nice description of the service.
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on what professors can learn from preschool teachers | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    An interesting article to consider as the Faculty's role continues to shift away from content delivery.
Jon Breitenbucher

New Platform Lets Professors Set Prices for Their Online Courses - Technology - The Chr... - 0 views

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    The rogue academic.
Jon Breitenbucher

Turning In to the Skid | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "Students in the blended class did better than students in the traditional class.  They also did better than students in pure MOOCs."
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