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Amyaz Moledina

Flipping the Curriculum: Introductory Courses Should Be Just as Good as the Capstone Ex... - 0 views

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  • “flipping the curriculum.” It would call for small classes in the freshman and senior years and larger classes for sophomores and particularly for juniors. The profit that the university makes right now on introductory classes would remain, but just shift to the junior year.
  • Amyaz Moledina on 03 Dec 12
     
    We already do this!
Jon Breitenbucher

The Open Utopia | …though no one owns anything, everyone is rich. - Thomas More - 0 views

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shared by Jon Breitenbucher on 28 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Jon Breitenbucher on 28 Nov 12
     
    Here is a good example of what an IS might look like in 2 years. You can read more about the process at http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Reading-Projects/135908
Jon Breitenbucher

Beyond Disruption: Higher Ed Innovation from Within | The Blue Review - 0 views

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shared by Jon Breitenbucher on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • Jon Breitenbucher on 13 May 13
     
    "I'm not opposed to disruption; rather, I'm skeptical about the kind of disruption start-ups and tech folks promise: "paradigm-shifting" technology that improves university teaching and learning. The truth is, many of these start-ups clearly have no idea what actually works in higher ed and know little about the direction university teaching and learning have moved in the last 10 years, because they're trying to take us backward, not forward. Start-up and commercial tech are certainly proving disruptive-just in all the wrong ways."
Jon Breitenbucher

Disruption guru Christensen: Why Apple, Tesla, VCs, academia may die - Silicon Valley B... - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 13 Feb 13
     
    "Fifteen years from now more than half of the universities will be in bankruptcy, including the state schools. In the end, I am excited to see that happen." Clayton Christensen makes some interesting observations, but I'm just not sure about the timeframe he puts on the death of universities.
Jon Breitenbucher

CLAY CHRISTENSEN: Higher Education Is 'On The Edge Of The Crevasse' - Business Insider - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 25 Feb 13
     
    "I think higher education is just on the edge of the crevasse. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don't feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. But I think even five years from now these enterprises are going to be in real trouble."
Jon Breitenbucher

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

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 05 Mar 13
     
    "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."
  • Amyaz Moledina on 13 Mar 13
     
    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

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 18 Feb 13
     
    Reimagining public education. What implications does it have for us?
Amyaz Moledina

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

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  • 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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      Amyaz Moledina on 25 Feb 13
       
      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.)
  • Amyaz Moledina on 25 Feb 13
     
    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"
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