Daily Randomly Sporto 10/01/2013

• MOOCs in the Corporate World | Learning Technologies | Training Industry

  tags: technologies training industry MOOC MOOCs corporate

• European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

  tags: journal european EURODL completion quality

• European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning

  tags: european distance learning transactional distance dialogue EURODL

• Assessment in Open and Distance Learning System (ODL): A Challenge | Chaudhary | Open Praxis

  tags: assessment distance learning praxis challenge ICDE

• Prerequisites for Persistence in Distance Education

  tags: persistence distance education education

• The Audacity of MOOCS « WCET Frontiers

  tags: audacity MOOC MOOCs WCET

• The New, Lifelong, Nonlinear Path Through College - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: path college future higher education flexible

• College Career Centers Stretch to Take on New Roles - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: career centers higher education chronicle college

• Inside the Flipped Classroom - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: flipped classroom classroom higher education chronicle K-12

• Education-Technology Start-Ups Boom - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: higher education boom education startup technology chronicle innovation

• How Disruption Can Help Colleges Thrive - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: disruption innovation higher education chronicle

• What Are the Barriers to Innovation? - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: barriers innovation chronicle higher education

• Presidents and Professors Largely Agree on Who Should Lead Innovation - NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: presidents professors innovation higher education chronicle MOOC MOOCs

• Policy 220.60 Federal Financial Aid Return of Funds Policy - UMUC

  tags: policy federal aid funds return UMUC

• Policy 220.33 - Financial Aid - Satisfactory Academic Progress - Graduate - UMUC

  tags: policy aid academic progress graduate UMUC

• Policy 151.00 - Code of Student Conduct - UMUC

  tags: policy code student conduct UMUC

• Student Affairs Policy

  tags: student affairs policy policies UMUC

• Policy 210.19 - Registration - UMUC

  tags: policy registration UMUC

• Policy 205.06 - Calculation Of Grade-Point Average (GPA) for Inclusion on Transcripts and Transcript Requests - UMUC

  tags: policy average calculation transcripts UMUC GPA

• Policy 170.72 - Course Withdrawal Policy - UMUC

  tags: policy withdrawal course UMUC

• Academic Affairs - Policy - UMUC

  tags: academic affairs policies UMUC

• Policy 170.71 - Policy on Grade of Incomplete - UMUC

  tags: policy grade UMUC incomplete pending

• Policy 170.40 - Degree Completion Requirements for the Graduate School - UMUC

  tags: policy completion requirements graduate UMUC degree

• Policy 170.10 - Graduate Admissions Policy - UMUC

  tags: policy graduate admissions UMUC

• Policy 158.00 - Academic Levels of Progress - UMUC

  tags: policy academic levels progress UMUC

• Policy 150.50 - Misconduct in Scholarly Work - UMUC

  tags: policy scholarly procedures UMUC

• Policy 150.25 - Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism - UMUC

  tags: policy procedures plagiarism dishonesty UMUC

• Policy 130.80 - Procedures for Review of Alleged Arbitrary and Capricious Grading - UMUC

  tags: policy procedures review grading UMUC

• Policy 130.70 - Student Grievance Procedures - UMUC

  tags: policy student grievance procedures

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/28/2013

• A Surge in Growth for a New Kind of Online Course - NYTimes.com

  tags: growth online nytimes MOOC MOOCs higher education

• MOOCs make waves in higher education worldwide - University World News

  tags: higher education MOOC MOOCs world news world

• Most Students Are Unprepared for College, SAT Results Show - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: college sat higher education readiness chronicle

• Keeping Students Engaged in the Online Classroom | Faculty Focus

  tags: teaching engagement online education

• Sustainability of MOOC Forum- Introduction - YouTube

  tags: youtube sustainability MOOC MOOCs online video video

• It’s Time to Redirect the Conversation about MOOCs « WCET Frontiers

  "I think it is time for those of us that have been leaders in “traditional” online education to wrestle the microphone away from the for-profits and latecomers—and begin to lead once again."

  tags: MOOC MOOCs online education WCET MDE-Recommended

• Essay on MOOC platforms and the payoff for professors | Inside Higher Ed

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Changing the conversation about MOOCs from WCET Frontiers

It’s Time to Redirect the Conversation about MOOCs « WCET Frontiers

Excellent special post from David Cillay, Vice President, Washington State University on the WCET blog.

http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/redirect-mooc-conversation/

Massive aspect of online education can be likened to "going to the local pond and throwing breadcrumbs on the water for the ducks. It’s really not a solution to feeding the ducks, but a few of the more aggressive ducks get a nice treat.”

He concludes with a message that should resonate well with all of us at UMUC...
"I think it is time for those of us that have been leaders in “traditional” online education to wrestle the microphone away from the for-profits and latecomers—and begin to lead once again." 

Indeed...

​enjoy!

--Stella.​

Daily Randomly Sporto 09/27/2013

• MDE - Master of Distance Education & E-Learning - UMUC | LinkedIn

  tags: linkedin group MDE UMUC networking social networking

• Wharton Puts First-Year MBA Courses Online for Free - Businessweek

  tags: MOOC education mba wharton

• How to Print to PDF in Windows: 4 Tips and Tricks

  tags: print pdf windows tips

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/26/2013

• Docs, Sheets, and Slides - Drive Help

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/25/2013

• Helping MOOC students navigate open educational resources - Page 2 of 2 - eCampus News | eCampus News | 2

  tags: MOOCs resources

• Worried About Message, Colleges Scrutinize Social Media - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: social media technology higher education colleges scrutiny legal

• Infographic: Envisioning the future of education technology | Atomic Learning Blogs

  tags: infographic future education technology

• Give competency-based education a chance - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com

  tags: education competency-based learning competency-based hill bill congress politics

• To Harness MOOCs, Focus on the Outcomes - Forbes

  tags: outcomes harness MOOCs veterans ebersole

• Sample college courses for free through MOOCs | Veterans Education Guide

  tags: college veterans MOOCs courses

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/24/2013

• New Reports from Noel-Levitz Show Online College Students Have Highest Levels of Satisfaction with Educational Experience - Press Release - Digital Journal

  tags: reports online satisfaction experience

• Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies | HASTAC

  tags: hastac literacies higher education literacy learning

• History and Future of Higher Education | HASTAC

  "List & filter collection"

  tags: history higher education education hastac

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/22/2013

• FREE - Federal Registry for Educational Excellence | FREE – Federal Registry for Educational Excellence

  tags: resources teaching education reference government resource K-12

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/21/2013

• Competency Works

  tags: competency-based learning information technology competency inacol education

• http://www.competencyworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/iNACOL_CW_IssueBrief_ReEngineeringCompEd_final.pdf

  tags: competency-based learning information technology IT inacol

• Competency-based education and blended learning: Worlds apart or just two sides of the personalization coin? | Christensen Institute

  "paper on information technology"

  tags: education blended learning personalization competency-based learning blended

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/20/2013

• Wisconsin’s Flexible Option: A System Approach to Competency-Based Education « WCET Frontiers

  tags: wisconsin system competency-based learning competencies online learning credit

• How to Consistently Stay on Top of Class Assignments | Online Learning Tips

  tags: class assignments online online learning

• Back to School: Success Tips for Non-Traditional Students (Part 2) | The EvoLLLution

  "Back to School: Success Tips for Non-Traditional Students (Part 2) By Karen Watts | Instructor and Trainer, Bellingham Technical College Business Department and Tutoring Center"

  tags: school success students tips

• Back to School: Success Tips for Non-Traditional Students (Part 1) | The EvoLLLution

  "Back to School: Success Tips for Non-Traditional Students (Part 1) By Karen Watts | Instructor and Trainer, Bellingham Technical College Business Department and Tutoring Center"

  tags: school success tips students

• Seven state coalition pushes for more information about military credit recommendations | Inside Higher Ed

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/19/2013

• JavaScript | MDN

  tags: JavaScript programming

• Two MOOC curriculum announcements in one week |e-Literate

  tags: MOOCs mooc curriculum MITx Wharton Feldstein

• How to Cite Social Media in Scholarly Writing | SAGE Connection – Insight

  tags: cite social media scholarly

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MDE Fall 2013 Orientation Starts September 23rd...

The MDE blog: MDE Fall 2013 Orientation

Hi everyone -

I wanted to remind you all about the MDE Orientation for Fall 2013... It starts Monday, September 23rd. This time around we will hold synchronous events. I heard that the registration form was not working correctly, and I have just tweaked it, and it should be working. 

The link to the MDE Orientation site is:
https://sites.google.com/site/mdeorientation/
And for registering to the synchronous event, you should go to the following site page:
https://sites.google.com/site/mdeorientation/home/synchronous-events.

best,
--Stella.

Daily Randomly Sporto 09/18/2013

• Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC)

  tags: learning collaborative shared inbloom education

• home | inBloom

  tags: education Data inbloom share learning collaborative

• Learning Registry | sharing what we know

  tags: learning digital_learning registry Education resources technology

• Dr. Robert Mendenhall: What Is Competency-Based Education?

• A ‘Disruptive’ Look at Competency-Based Education | Center for American Progress

  tags: competency-based competency

• A ‘Disruptive’ Look at Competency-Based Education | Center for American Progress

• WGU Washington's Innovative Education Model Spreading to Local Colleges - Press Release - Digital Journal

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/17/2013

• Insurgent Credentials: A Challenge to Established Institutions of Higher Education? | HASTAC

  "To download the full version, click here"

  tags: credentials challenge institutions higher education

• http://www.hastac.org/files/insurgent_credentials__michael_olneck_2012.pdf

  tags: badges openbadges higher education

• Passport by Purdue University

  tags: badges openbadges Digital Badges gamification purdue education LMS

• IT Sligo/NDLR Teaching and Learning Webinar Series: Open Badges and Learning: A Disruptive Technology for Education and Accreditation?

  tags: teaching learning badges

• Designing a Badge System for Universities | ON Course

  tags: badge system Universities designing

• Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education | Schmidt | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

  tags: assessment peer review peer-to-peer

• Digital Badges | HASTAC

  tags: badges cathy davidson hastac openbadges

• Badging | Cathy Davidson

  tags: cathy davidson badges openbadges

• Veteran Employment, Hire A Veteran

  tags: veteran employment hire badges openbadges

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/16/2013

• LightSide | Automated Essay Grading, Student Writing Assessment

  tags: machine learning grading assessment writing

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/15/2013

• Pioneer Billie Jean King Moved The Baseline For Women's Tennis : NPR

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/14/2013

• Don’t Change Your Name When You Get Married

• Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs | Jill Filipovic | Comment is free | theguardian.com

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/13/2013

• Mozilla Webmaker Badges

  tags: badges webdesign learning technology openbadges mozilla

• Credly

  tags: badges assessment credly motivation

• Badges/Issuers - MozillaWiki

  tags: badges learning mozilla

• Basic Writing course through Coursera.org

  tags: coursera writing OMDE601

• Open Badges Transform the Higher Education and Labor Markets | The EvoLLLution

  tags: badges

• Questions about badges in higher ed | HASTAC

• DML Hub

  tags: DETC630 research digital media learning dml hub digitalmedia

• Hype Cycle Research Methodology | Gartner Inc.

  tags: gartner technology hype research hypecycle methodology DETC630

• badg.us

  tags: badges openbadges badg.us open badge

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/11/2013

• The Emergent Academic Proletariat and Its Shortchanged Students | Dissent Magazine

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/10/2013

• http://www.all4ed.org/files/DigitalBadges.pdf

  tags: badges Mozilla

• Badges | ON Course

  tags: badges course MOOC

• Makewaves Blog | What’s on your badge list? Things we have learnt becoming a badger

  tags: blog badge list system MOOC

• Understanding Motivation in Badge System Design | Bananigans!

  tags: motivation badge system design MOOC badges

• JESS KLEIN: Design Feedback for Badge Systems

  tags: design feedback badges MOOC badge systems

• Initial Reflections on The Hyperlinked Library MOOC and the Badges I Have Acquired « UK Web Focus

  "Hyperlinked Library MOOC"

  tags: badges MOOC hyperlinked library

• How to make #openbadges work for you and your organisation. | Doug Belshaw's blog

  tags: openbadgesmooc openness organisation badges

• Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography v1 | HASTAC

  tags: openbadgesmooc openness badges

• #OpenBadgesMOOC1 (with image, tweets) · phpnz · Storify

  tags: openbadgesmooc tweets storify

• What Is A Badge? - YouTube

  tags: badge youtube video DETC630

• Study finds that students learn more from non-tenure-track instructors | Inside Higher Ed

• Study finds that students learn more from non-tenure-track instructors | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: tenure adjunct teaching teacher-pay full-time part-time

• Stanford University and Khan Academy use flipped classroom for medical education | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: stanford university khan academy classroom medical education inside higher ed

• Horn and Kelly on book about role of for-profits | Inside Higher Ed

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/09/2013

• 12 Things You Should Never Do When You Teach Online

  tags: elearning teaching onlineteaching online_learning

• The Hyperlinked Library

  tags: MOOC moocs library online DETT611

• Library Intelligencer » The Hyperlinked Library: A Massive Open Online Course for LIS Professionals

  tags: MOOC moocs library online course professionals

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/07/2013

• Assessment Tools for MOOCs -- Campus Technology

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/06/2013

• LOOCing into the future of digital learning | About UBC Library

  tags: future learning ubc looc MOOC moocs OMDE608

• Universities should educate – employers should train - The Globe and Mail

  tags: universities train education teaching higher-education MDE-Recommended

• Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 9: Evaluate and innovate

  tags: e-learning learning elearning designing instructional design DETT607

• Designing online learning for the 21st century

  tags: designing online online learning DETT607

• Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and productivity: 1-Catching a teachable moment

  tags: tom carey productivity online learning OMDE601 Tony Bates reflections

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/05/2013

• Towards a theory or model of productivity for online learning: outcomes, scale and design

  tags: productivity online learning learning outcomes scale design theory OMDE601 DEPM625 OMDE606

• Zooniverse - Real Science Online

  tags: crowdsourcing science astronomy space nature planets galaxies climate

• First Trial of Crowdsourced Grading for Computer Science Homework | MIT Technology Review

  tags: grading computer computer science homework automation crowdsourcing technology review DETC630

• How to Convert a Classroom Course Into a MOOC -- Campus Technology

  tags: MOOC online learning conversion redesign DETT607

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Daily Randomly Sporto 09/04/2013

• What LinkedIn University Pages Means for Students and Colleges | EdTech Magazine

  tags: linkedin university pages students edtech social media social networking

• Is there a link between flexible access and ‘productivity’ in higher education?

• At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn : NPR

• Factorial Validity and Reliability of the Sense of Community in Online Courses Scale - Journal of Interactive Online Learning

  tags: validity reliability sense community online learning interactive journal OMDE610

• When to Talk, When to Chat: Student Interactions in Live Virtual Classrooms - Journal of Interactive Online Learning

  tags: online interactive interactions classrooms online learning OMDE610

• Essay on additional steps needed to promote competency-based education | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: moocs competency-based competency-based learning credit credit-hour accreditation funding financial-aid

• MOOCAdvisor

  tags: moocs DETC630

• 5 Ways To Make Students Better At Sharing Online - Edudemic - Edudemic

  tags: sharing students social media OMDE601

• Tech Transformation: Visible Learning

  tags: visible learning heutagogy selfdirectedlearning OMDE610

• HASTAC | Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory

  tags: badges digital-badges resources

• Mozilla and Badges: where next? | commonspace

  tags: Badges mozilla

• Company's skills tests offer glimpse of alternative credentialing | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: badges testing assessment

• http://www.knowledgeworks.org/sites/default/files/Competency-Education-Series%20-Policy-Brief-One.pdf

  tags: competency-based learning competencies competency-based education badges

• http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/Certificates.FullReport.061812.pdf

  tags: badges certificates employment

• Badge system design: investigating assumptions | Persona

  tags: badges MOOC

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/5/59/OpenBadges-Working-Paper_012312.pdf

  tags: badges mozilla MOOC

• The Five Components of a Successful Online Faculty Development Program | Faculty Focus

  tags: online learning teacher faculty development Facultyfocus faculty training online teaching OMDE610 OMDE608

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