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Theron DesRosier

Lifelong Kindergarten | MIT Media Lab - 0 views

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  • App Inventor is an open-source tool that democratizes app creation for and by all. By combining visual LEGO-like blocks together on the screen, even users with no prior programming experience can use App Inventor to create their own mobile applications. Currently, App Inventor has over 1,000,000 users and is being taught by universities, schools, and community centers worldwide. In those initiatives, students not only acquire important technology skills such as computer programming, but also have the opportunity to apply computational thinking concepts to many fields including science, health, education, business, social action, entertainment, and the arts. Work on App Inventor was initiated in Google Research by Hal Abelson and is continuing at the MIT Media Lab as part of its Center for Mobile Learning, a collaboration with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP).
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      Theron DesRosier on 06 Feb 14
       
      Here is a group sticky note. Can someone else see this and respond?
  • Build-in-Progress is a new platform for people to document and share design projects that are still works-in-progress. The website encourages designers to share their designs as they are under development, showcasing the trials and errors that naturally occur throughout the design process. This is in contrast to existing platforms, which tend to present users with edited recipes for replicating existing projects. Build-in-Progress also has a companion mobile app for enabling designers to easily share media associated with their projects.
Theron DesRosier

Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 20 Dec 13
     
    Learning to create, manage and promote a professional learning network (PLN) will soon become, if it's not already, one of the most necessary and sought after skills for a global citizen, and as such, must become a prominent feature of any school curriculum
Brian Maki

Valdosta State University Recognized Nationally for Adult Learning Success - Valdosta S... - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 09 Nov 12
     
    Valdosta State continues its efforts to reach the underserved population of adults who do not have a college degree. As part of the Complete College Georgia initiative, Valdosta State is strengthening existing programs and creating new ones to improve overall student success, especially in the area of access for working adults and members of the military.
Theron DesRosier

Shaping a Culture of Conversation: The Discussion Board and Beyond | Academic Commons - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 23 Aug 12
     
    More food for thought on discussion and community.
Theron DesRosier

Improving the Discussion Board - Lehigh University - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 23 Aug 12
     
    good ideas for good discussion threads
Theron DesRosier

Panel of Scholars Defines '21st-Century Skills' - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 06 Aug 12
     
    The modern workplace and lifestyle demand that students balance cognitive, personal, and interpersonal abilities, but education policy discussions have not defined those skills well, says a report released last week by scholars from the National Research Council.
Brian Maki

6 Ways the iPhone Changed Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 03 Jul 12
     
    The way to think about the iPhone in relation to higher ed is less as a single product but a new product category. This category, which includes Android/Google and maybe eventually the Windows 8 phones, equals smart phone plus an app ecosystem. The carriers (Verizon, Sprint, AT&T etc.) remain a critical (as they own the cellular network), but annoying component of this ecosystem. Annoying because their voice/data pricing plans are only getting more expensive, restrictive and confusing as the hardware and software on smartphones improves exponentially each year. Any impact that the iPhone and its cousins achieve in higher ed will be in spite of, rather than because, the big cellular companies that we all must endure. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/6-ways-iphone-changed-higher-ed#ixzz1zZpsm081 Inside Higher Ed
Theron DesRosier

Essay on the changes that may most threaten traditional higher education | Inside Highe... - 0 views

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    "Imagine the moment when these completion exams permit a person to assemble learning from a variety of academic institutions and life experiences to complete a degree. At that moment, the monopoly of institutions over source and cost loosens, and the student gains control of how knowledge is to be gained and at what price. At that moment, the sources of learning are severed from credentialing. At that moment, American higher education is radically changed."
Theron DesRosier

How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit - Yoni Appelbaum - National... - 0 views

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  • Theron DesRosier on 17 May 12
     
    For many years I have considered Wikipedia to be a great sandbox for students to practice information literacy skills. What does it say? How do you know it is accurate? Who is the source? What do they stand to gain? Are there other perspectives? Who are the stakeholders?
Brian Maki

University of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-source textbooks | Ins... - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 10 May 12
     
    Open-source textbooks, long considered a promising way to cut costs but still not widely used, could become more readily available and easily vetted as a University of Minnesota project expands. Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won't be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with all of the money coming from donor funds.
Brian Maki

Techniques for Assessing Prior Learning | Academic Impressions - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 08 May 12
     
    This week, Jamie Merisotis, president and CEO of the Lumina Foundation for Education, released a statement offering ideas for a national strategy to rapidly train workers for new jobs; among these, prior learning assessment (PLA) was cited as one possible game-changer. But beyond CLEP and the controversial challenge exam, how can enrollment managers and academic leaders assess prior learning effectively and with rigor? We asked Denise Hart, director of adult education and creator of the Success Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and author of a landmark study of prior learning assessment portfolios, for techniques that institutions should be thinking about.
Brian Maki

Walmart and American Public U. chart new ground with partnership | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 08 May 12
     
    When something sounds too good to be true, you check it out. So Jeana Murphy and Henry Jordan did some sleuthing when their employer, Walmart, offered to pick up part of the tab for degrees from an online university that offers flexible hours, relatively cheap tuition and college credit for on-the-job training and experience. Murphy, a 30-year-old assistant manager at a Walmart store in Elkin, N.C., started by Googling the American Public University System, the for-profit institution that two years ago landed a highly sought partnership as the preferred educational provider for the more than 1.3 million U.S. employees of Walmart Stores, Inc.
Brian Maki

10,000 Ebooks Coming to ebrary - EContent Magazine - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 10 Apr 12
     
    ebrary, a ProQuest business, is expanding its ebook selection across acquisition models. The company reports this is in an effort to strengthen its new approach to strategic ebook acquisition based on three steps: Transition, Diversify, and Streamline. More than 1,800 new ebooks from Wiley, from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and 2,300 new titles from publishers, including Princeton University Press and World Scientific & Imperial College Press, will be available in Academic Complete. An additional 6,300 ebooks from publishers such as MIT Press, Oxford University Press, and University of Illinois Press will be available through other ebrary models, including patron driven acquisition, short-term loan, and perpetual archive.
Brian Maki

A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education | Lumina Foundation - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 28 Mar 12
     
    Review the data from the Lumina Foundation's report, "A Stronger Nation Through Higher Education," including degree attainment rates by state and progress on meeting the foundation's goal of 60 percent attainment by the year 2025.
Rebecca Stull

Braille Under Siege As Blind Turn To Smartphones : All Tech Considered : NPR - 0 views

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  • Rebecca Stull on 15 Mar 12
     
    A good picture of the changing landscape of "accommodations."
Rebecca Stull

Five Best Practices for the Flipped Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Rebecca Stull on 14 Mar 12
     
    So educators, here are some things to think about and consider if you are thinking about or already using the flipped classroom model.
Theron DesRosier

Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion? - Wired Campus - The C... - 1 views

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    Catchy title.
Brian Maki

Colleges looking beyond the lecture - The Washington Post - 0 views

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    The lecture hall is under attack. Science, math and engineering departments at many universities are abandoning or retooling the lecture as a style of teaching, worried that it's driving students away. The faculty at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has dedicated this academic year to finding alternatives to the lecture in those subjects. Johns Hopkins, Harvard University and even the White House have hosted events in which scholars have assailed the lecture.
Brian Maki

A Key Competency for Online Instructors | Academic Impressions - 0 views

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  • Brian Maki on 13 Feb 12
     
    Debates continue in the public sphere over the quality and efficacy of online instruction, with research studies citing quite different outcomes confusing the issue. The heart of the matter is that not all online instruction is equal -- institutions still differ widely in the level of planning that goes into the online instruction they provide and in the level of preparation and training provided for online instructors.
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