Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Daily Randomly Sporto 08/29/2013
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Daily Randomly Sporto 08/28/2013
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Master’s Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online - NYTimes.com
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Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology | Inside Higher Ed
""We should all be thinking of more interactive, human, creative, student-centered ways of teaching that help prepare students for the current world where, since April 22, 1993, anyone with a connection to the Internet has the capacity to think an idea and then communicate it to anyone else with a connection to the Internet," she said. "That is, for the first time in human history, we have a power of connection and a responsibility of connection that is instantaneous and global. Yet we are still teaching students as if that power did not exist, we are doing little to train them (or ourselves) for the harrowing and inspiring (both) powers of this world. Having a 'doc on a laptop' (my phrase for the video equivalent of the 'sage on the stage') yap at you from a computer screen does not prepare you for a digital world any more than a lecture course. BOTH need new paradigms, new thinking of everything from what we mean by teaching, what we mean by learning, how we help students integrate subjects that have been separated by our educational system for the last 150 years, and how we move away from standardization to iterative, customized, collaborative, and creative thinking.""
Monday, August 26, 2013
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Friday, August 23, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Daily Randomly Sporto 08/22/2013
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Nuts and Bolts: Design Assessments First by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine
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Marc My Words: Own the Assessment, Not the Course by Marc J. Rosenberg : Learning Solutions Magazine
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Earning College Credit by Competency-based Exams Gains Appeal
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How to Make Online Courses Massively Personal: Scientific American
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http://jolt.merlot.org/vol9no1/jones_0313.pdf
Learning equity between online and onsite courses
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Daily Randomly Sporto 08/21/2013
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Did University Officials Know Amy Bishop was Dangerous? : The New Yorker
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http://www.heqco.ca/SiteCollectionDocuments/How_Online_Learning_Affects_Productivity-ENG.pdf
How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the Literature
Monday, August 19, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
2013 the year of competency-based learning?
Another interesting event in the competency-based learning movement. 2012 was named the MOOC year, and maybe 2013 will be named the competency-base year. However, different institutions use this term in very different ways.
I wonder if just aligning outcomes with competencies is enough to attract students, without touching the credit system, or adding any flexibility in the learning path, or reducing cost. I'm skeptical that just by adding curriculum changes, without changing the actual learning 'model' this move has any traction with students...