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Employers Say College Graduates Lack Job Skills - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Ed... - 0 views

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Brian Maki on 22 Dec 11

"Employers Say College Graduates Lack Job Skills"

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The new education ecology | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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Theron DesRosier on 20 Jan 12

"Lee Rainie discusses Pew Internet's most recent findings about Americans use the internet and their mobile devices to learn, share, and create information. He explores how the changed media environment is affecting learners' expectations about the availability of information and the ways in which learning takes place. In this new environment, the traditional boundaries between home and school, teacher and pupil, public and private are breaking down and that is affecting the way learning occurs. Lee also describes how Pew Internet has looked at these subjects and the ways in which schools and families are responding to them."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Lee Rainie discusses Pew Internet's most recent findings about Americans use the internet and their mobile devices to learn, share, and create information. He explores how the changed media environment is affecting learners' expectations about the availability of information and the ways in which learning takes place. In this new environment, the traditional boundaries between home and school, teacher and pupil, public and private are breaking down and that is affecting the way learning occurs. Lee also describes how Pew Internet has looked at these subjects and the ways in which schools and families are responding to them."</div>

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Salman Khan: Let's Use Video To Reinvent Education - 0 views

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Theron DesRosier on 23 Dec 11

For those who haven't seen this yet, it is worth a watch. Some simple innovations that have a huge impact on the scale and quality of learning. Many of these principles could be transferred to our learning space.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">For those who haven't seen this yet, it is worth a watch. Some simple innovations that have a huge impact on the scale and quality of learning. Many of these principles could be transferred to our learning space.</div>

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Don't Lecture Me | American RadioWorks - 1 views

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Theron DesRosier on 03 Jan 12

"Rethinking the Way College Students Learn College students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. And experts say students need to learn better because the 21st century economy demands more well-educated workers."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Rethinking the Way College Students Learn College students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. And experts say students need to learn better because the 21st century economy demands more well-educated workers." </div>

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Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool : NPR - 0 views

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"The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it's a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data to prove it."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it's a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data to prove it."</div>

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

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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.</div>

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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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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.
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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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

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shared by Brian Maki on 10 May 12 - No Cached

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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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Do 'flipped classrooms' get a pass or fail? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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Okanagan Mission Secondary School in Kelowna, B.C., is among the early Canadian adopters of the flipped classroom – a model where students switch around what’s traditionally covered at school and what’s assigned for kids to do at home. Instead of lectures in class and homework after school, these students are watching lectures at home care of the Web and working one-on-one on assignments with teachers during school hours. The Globe talked to some of the students – kids taking senior math and biology classes – and their teacher to find how what they make of "flipping out."
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Theron DesRosier on 01 Dec 11

Okanagan Mission Secondary School in Kelowna, B.C., is among the early Canadian adopters of the flipped classroom - a model where students switch around what's traditionally covered at school and what's assigned for kids to do at home. Instead of lectures in class and homework after school, these students are watching lectures at home care of the Web and working one-on-one on assignments with teachers during school hours. The Globe talked to some of the students - kids taking senior math and biology classes - and their teacher to find how what they make of "flipping out."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Okanagan Mission Secondary School in Kelowna, B.C., is among the early Canadian adopters of the flipped classroom - a model where students switch around what's traditionally covered at school and what's assigned for kids to do at home. Instead of lectures in class and homework after school, these students are watching lectures at home care of the Web and working one-on-one on assignments with teachers during school hours. The Globe talked to some of the students - kids taking senior math and biology classes - and their teacher to find how what they make of "flipping out." </div>

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Rubrics - Enhancing Education - Carnegie Mellon University - 0 views

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The resource page for rubrics at Carnegie Mellon. Provides disciplinary examples.

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University of Maryland Baltimore County: A model of excellence and Innovative teaching ... - 0 views

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Brian Maki on 26 Jan 12

After seeing low success and persistence rates in introductory STEM classes, UMBC began using unconventional teaching approaches to help students with the transition to rigorous college courses; in at least one area of study, the approach worked: the number of students failing chemistry has been cut in half and the number of chemistry majors has doubled since the changes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">After seeing low success and persistence rates in introductory STEM classes, UMBC began using unconventional teaching approaches to help students with the transition to rigorous college courses; in at least one area of study, the approach worked: the number of students failing chemistry has been cut in half and the number of chemistry majors has doubled since the changes. </div>

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Mexico's UNAM aims to put it all online: Cultural Exchange - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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Brian Maki on 26 Jan 12

With its recently debuted project "Toda la UNAM en Línea" (All of UNAM Online), the university will go beyond providing lecture notes and classroom handouts by giving users digital access to libraries, special collections, conferences, and the research of students and professors.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">With its recently debuted project "Toda la UNAM en Línea" (All of UNAM Online), the university will go beyond providing lecture notes and classroom handouts by giving users digital access to libraries, special collections, conferences, and the research of students and professors. </div>

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Khan Academy: Out of the Screen, Into the Physical World | MindShift - 1 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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

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Catchy title.

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