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in title, tags, annotations or urlThe Twitter Experiment at UT Dallas - 0 views
Obama and Higher Education - Romance and Reality - HigherEd Careers - HigherEdJobs.com - 0 views
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I don't expect direct subsidies for education will matter generally - especially in the humanities. Investments in science, technology, and health care will boost large research universities that depend on grants. The next 8 years will be good to scientists at MIT, Cal Tech, and Johns Hopkins, among others. Better to be a "real" scientist than a "social" scientist.
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Faculty should expect less and less security. Major universities have been shifting away from tenured faculty toward lecturers - and that may well be a good trend. Lecturers tend to be closer to the "real world," which comes along with more practical skills. Likewise, growth in higher education will be greater in community and technical colleges. Job security there is directly related to performance - not tenure. We may, thankfully, be moving toward more accountability for teachers and less security for the dead wood among our faculties.
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If you're looking for innovation and change in higher education , take a train to your state capitol building. Avoid that flight to DC.
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Kesmit-ing: The Twitter Experiment - Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas - 0 views
Ustream is Duke's Latest Venture in Online Communication - 0 views
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"By making its inaugural higher education partnership with Duke, Ustream aims to help empower educational experiences across physical and financial boundaries,” said John Ham, Ustream’s chief executive officer. “We look forward to enabling Duke professors to reach students across the globe."
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“Duke has a strong commitment to sharing its knowledge and expertise to serve society,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke. “We’re using a growing number of new media platforms to invite the public to participate in the debates that animate our campus, on issues ranging from health care to foreign policy. These new services and programs make it possible for our faculty to connect with audiences around the world.”
Top News - Cell-phone college classes face hurdles - 0 views
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A Ball State University study released in April showed that 27 percent of 300 college students polled owned a smart phone, compared with 19 percent of the general population.
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"The main thing we have to think about is what the phone can bring back into the learning environment," Johnson said. "[Smart phones] are [used] much more as a tool than a delivery platform."
Stephen's Phone Blog: Corridors of Dour - 0 views
Ending the University as We Know It | Open Culture - 0 views
MediaShift . Turning a College Lecture into a Conversation with CoverItLive | PBS - 0 views
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"Web now" is the new reality of everyday communications.
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Whenever we start using new tools of communication, such as the cell phone or Twitter, we spend much of our time working out how we should be using them. This is exactly what happened during the lecture.
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As he addressed the students, they were able to submit comments and ask questions via CoveritLive -- these comments then appeared on screen.
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Wired Campus: Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class -- via Twitter - Chronicle.com - 0 views
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Back then, most of his students were unfamiliar with Twitter, the microblogging service that limits messages to 140 characters. And for the first few weeks of course, students were reluctant to tweet, says Mr. Complese. “It took a few weeks for this to click,” he said. “Before it started to work, there was just nothing on the back channel.”
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his hope is that the second layer of conversation will disrupt the old classroom model and allow new kinds of teaching in which students play a greater role and information is pulled in from outside the classroom walls.
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Once students warmed to the idea that their professors actually wanted them to chat during class, students begin floating ideas or posting links to related materials, the professor says. In some cases, a shy student would type an observation or question on Twitter, and others in the class would respond with notes encouraging the student to raise the topic out loud. Other times, one of the professors would see a link posted by a student and stop class to discuss it.
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What is Bamboo? | Project Bamboo - 0 views
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What is Bamboo? Workshop 1bProject Bamboo is an 18-month planning and community design program where through a series of conversations and workshops, we are mapping out the scholarly practices and common technology challenges across and among disciplines to discover where a coordinated, cross-disciplinary development effort can best foster academic innovation.
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