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

www.businessinsider.com/r-education-on-the-edge-2013-2 higher education future survival
shared by Jon Breitenbucher on 25 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • 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."
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Essay on issues related to what digital scholarship 'counts' for tenure and promotion |... - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 21 Feb 13
     
    How do we help faculty understand this issue better?
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The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education | Most Innovative Companies 2... - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 19 Feb 13
     
    The tide is turing to student assessment.
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Home | A Year at Mission Hill - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 18 Feb 13
     
    Reimagining public education. What implications does it have for us?
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Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching - Wired Campus - The Chr... - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 18 Feb 13
     
    Sometimes it is difficult to make the transition from classroom to online as an instructor.
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MOOCs instead of open education | Bryan Alexander - 0 views

bryanalexander.org/...oocs-instead-of-open-education higher education MOOCs
shared by Jon Breitenbucher on 14 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Jon Breitenbucher on 14 Feb 13
     
    Some interesting points as to why everything seems to be about MOOCs.
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Course-by-course approval of MOOCs may not be wise (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 14 Feb 13
     
    "Dig deeper and we are left to ask, how many MOOC courses will really be worth college credit, where will the credits be accepted, and for how long will college credits even be the primary measurement of learning?"
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MOOC-WHIPPED | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 14 Feb 13
     
    "So how can it be that MOOCs are so popular, here in America, and, it seems, all over the world?  Aren't they just bringing back the sage on the stage, the deadly lecture?  Why would people want this?  It's positively old-fashioned."
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To MOOC or Not to MOOC - WorldWise - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 14 Feb 13
     
    This is a different article with the same title as another on the list. Not sure that there is much that is new.
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ACE doubles down on prior learning assessment | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 04 Mar 13
     
    "The council says it wants more students to earn college credit for learning that occurs outside the college classroom." - It may be time to examine our stance on accepting online credits.
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Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 1: Beyond the LMS - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 05 Mar 13
     
    "For some, teaching begins with authority and expertise. For the digital pedagogue, teaching begins with inquiry. And that's why digital pedagogy is so important. It reminds us that the new landscape of learning is mysterious and worth exploring." - an interesting position
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