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Stephanie Cooper

Essay on making student learning the focus of higher education | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Too many college graduates are not prepared to think critically and creatively, speak and write cogently and clearly, solve problems, comprehend complex issues, accept responsibility and accountability, take the perspective of others, or meet the expectations of employers.
  • The current culture -- the shared norms, values, standards, expectations and priorities -- of teaching and learning in the academy is not powerful enough to support true higher learning. As a result, students do not experience the kind of integrated, holistic, developmental, rigorous undergraduate education that must exist as an absolute condition for truly transformative higher learning to occur.
  • Degrees have become deliverables because we are no longer willing to make students work hard against high standards to earn them.
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  • The primary problem is that the current culture of colleges and universities no longer puts learning first -- and in most institutions, that culture perpetuates a fear of doing so.
  • In calling for the kind of serious, systemic rethinking that directly and unflinchingly accepts the challenge of improving undergraduate higher education, we are asking for four things; taken together, they demand, and would catalyze, a profound, needed, and overdue cultural change in our colleges and universities.
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    America faces a crisis in higher learning. Too many college graduates are not prepared to think critically and creatively, speak and write cogently and clearly, solve problems, comprehend complex issues, accept responsibility and accountability, take the perspective of others, or meet the expectations of employers. 
Stephanie Cooper

What Will Higher Education Look Like in 25 Years? - 1 views

  • Futurists surveyed for The Future of Higher Education report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project pontificated on what higher education would look like in 2020. Thirty-nine percent said higher education wouldn’t look much different than it does today. But 60 percent said higher education would be different, complete with mass adoption of teleconferencing and distance learning. In their written responses, however, many of them painted scenarios that incorporated elements of both.
  • Futurists view the coming decades as an opportunity for teacher/student relationships to occur almost purely through technology — an approach known as technology-mediated education. But faculty members look to maintain the university model that’s been in place for centuries, with a sprinkle of technology integration.
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ScienceDirect - The Internet and Higher Education : Blended learning: Uncovering its tr... - 0 views

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    The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of the transformative potential of blended learning in the context of the challenges facing higher education.
Keith Hamon

Online Educational Delivery Models: A Descriptive View (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 1 views

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    Although there has been a long history of distance education, the creation of online education occurred just over a decade and a half ago-a relatively short time in academic terms. Early course delivery via the web had started by 1994, soon followed by a more structured approach using the new category of course management systems.1 Since that time, online education has slowly but steadily grown in popularity, to the point that in the fall of 2010, almost one-third of U.S. postsecondary students were taking at least one course online.2 Fast forward to 2012: a new concept called Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is generating widespread interest in higher education circles. Most significantly, it has opened up strategic discussions in higher education cabinets and boardrooms about online education. Stanford, MIT, Harvard, the University of California-Berkeley, and others have thrown their support-in terms of investment, resources, and presidential backing-behind the transformative power of MOOCs and online education. National media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The Atlantic are touting what David Brooks has called "the campus tsunami" of online education.
Thomas Clancy

Open Online Courses: Higher Education of the Future? - The Network: Cisco's Technology ... - 1 views

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    Sounds like MOOCs have a bright future and are here to stay!!
Keith Hamon

Students Should Check Their Sense of Entitlement at the Door - Commentary - The Chronic... - 2 views

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    Every college teacher I know is bemoaning the same kind of thing. Whether it's rude behavior, lack of intellectual rigor, or both, we are all struggling with the same frightening decline in student performance and academic standards at institutions of higher learning. A sense of entitlement now pervades the academy, excellence be damned.
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    This is from March of 2011??? Keith, did you post it because it resonates with what you're seeing in Florida now? I don't think this rudeness describes Albany State U, just the obvious unpreparedness of the students. Our writing lab specialists do encounter demanding students sometimes, but I think it's fairly rare, and I haven't heard of extended bad feelings.
Keith Hamon

What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

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    I had high hopes when I handed out iPads to students in my graduate seminar this semester. I wanted to explore the possibilities of tablet computing and see firsthand how tablets might be used in higher education. … For the most part, students ended the semester with a collective shrug. They simply weren't all that impressed with tablet computing as it now exists.
Keith Hamon

Design Matters « higher education management group - 1 views

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    Digital higher education - both its software and content - has managed to remain untouched by good design. Design is not even on the agenda. The importance of design to digital education starts with this simple fact: by moving the locus of education from the classroom to the digital environment, we necessarily change the factors that determine the quality of the student's experience. In the digital environment, design plays a far more important role as a determinant of quality than it does in the classroom.
Kelly Gardiner

10 Best Books on the Future of Higher Ed - Online Universities - 0 views

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    Some great reading here - for those rainy afternoons.
Keith Hamon

Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality ... - 0 views

  • This article will introduce and explore methods for apprehending the future as it applies to the world of higher education and information technology.
  • A set of RSS feeds is one of the best tools that an environmental-scanner can possess.
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    This article will introduce and explore methods for apprehending the future as it applies to the world of higher education and information technology.
Keith Hamon

For More Students, Working on Wikis Is Part of Making the Grade - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • students’ learning improved when they embarked on wiki projects. “Rather than trying to read a textbook and regurgitate it for an exam, in order to write coherent segments, you have to actually intellectually understand it and be able to craft your own words, and that is a higher level of learning challenge,” he said. “All the research on learning theory suggests this is in fact a better way to learn.”
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      Writing is an integral part of participating in a wiki, and writing is what ASU's QEP is all about.
  • “It’s not something that we’re used to,” said Stuart Lee, an undergraduate who took Mr. Netzley’s class and helped create a wiki page on digital media in Japan. “We usually see the professor as the gatekeeper of information.”
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      So this is part of what happens when we teachers cease acting as gatekeepers and begin to act as concierges and curators.
  • “The notion of saving face really complicates the learning process,” he said, “because how do you learn if you’re not able to make mistakes and get feedback?”
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      When will we move beyond the drive to the right answer and all the anxiety and mental illness that surrounds that drive?
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    Although wikis, with their collaborative approach and vast reach online, have been around for at least 15 years, their use as a general teaching tool in higher education is still relatively recent. But an increasing number of universities are now adopting them as a teaching tool. As part of that trend, a handful of Singapore universities are using the wiki platform as a way to engage students.
Stephanie Cooper

The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity - The Digital Campus - The Chronicle of H... - 3 views

  • My academic identity—I'm a professor of educational technology at the Open University in the United Kingdom—is strongly allied with my blog
  • A key aspect of the digital revolution is not the direct replacement of one form of scholarly activity with another, but rather the addition of alternatives to existing forms.
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      Very true!  We need to remember that technology is just new  tools that allow us to express ourselves in ways we couldn't before.  
  • "Looking back on the history," he writes, "one clear trend stands out: Each new technology increased the complexity of the ecosystem."
Keith Hamon

ePIstudy - 0 views

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    The ePI study is exploring large-scale implementations of e-portfolio use in Higher and Further Education and professional organisations in the UK . It is JISC funded and led by the University of  Nottingham.
Stephanie Cooper

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Twitter Tweets for Higher Education - 0 views

  • I think Twitter could be ideal for reminding students about homework, trips and such things, especially as they can enter their mobile phone number to be alerted when one of their ‘friends’ updates their account. The advantage is that you don’t need to know the phone numbers of students to get messages onto their device: they are the ones who authorize their mobile phone from the website and they subscribe to your Twitter feed.
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      This is a great quote!
Keith Hamon

Connectivism Technology Web 2.0 Education Learning and Research - Connectivism, Technol... - 0 views

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    To share & discuss education, learning and research in Connectivism, Technology, Web2.0, e-Learning, PLE, K-12, Higher and Open Education
Keith Hamon

Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network | in education - 1 views

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    The course management system (CMS) reinforces the status quo and hinders substantial teaching and learning innovation in higher education. It does so by imposing artificial time limits on learner access to course content and other learners, privileging the role of the instructor at the expense of the learner, and limiting the power of the network effect in the learning process. The open learning network (OLN)-a hybrid of 1 the CMS and the personal learning environment (PLE)-is proposed as an alternative learning technology environment with the potential to leverage the affordances of the Web to dramatically improve learning.
Keith Hamon

Why Online Education Needs to Get Social - 0 views

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    Education is the second largest industry in America behind health care, and it too is experiencing a similar shift as it struggles to adapt traditional design and delivery models to the demands of modern audiences who are accustomed to digital interactivity. The challenge to transition successfully is especially pressing for online higher education. The Sloan Consortium reports that two-thirds of post-secondary educational institutions are seeing an increase in online courses and programs, so it's a market that education providers simply cannot afford to ignore.
Keith Hamon

Foundation for Critical Thinking: Books, Conferences and Academic Resources for Educato... - 0 views

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    The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking aim to improve education in colleges, universities and primary through secondary schools. We present publications, conferences, workshops and professional development programs, emphasizing instructional strategies, Socratic questioning, critical reading and writing, higher order thinking, assessment, research, quality enhancement, and competency standards.
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