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Productivity and online learning: an summary of the main concepts
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2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond
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MOOCs: Been There, Done That - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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15 Tech Trends That Will Define 2014, Selected By Frog | Co.Design | business + design
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Cut These Vague, Cliched, and Meaningless Words from Your Resume
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President Obama set to convene rare meeting of large group of college leaders | Inside Higher Ed
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Demographic Data Let Colleges Peer Into the Future - Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Innovation in 2014: Welcome to the Evolution - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Help Your Faculty Manage Online Workload | Academic Impressions
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The Most-Needed Competency for Online Instructors | Academic Impressions
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I Came, I Saw, I Learned...: SociaLogic: How to Cite Tweets in Academia or eLearning
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Instructional Design Hourly Rates and Salary | Experiencing E-Learning
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The Study That Shows the Significant Differences | Distance-Educator.com
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e4innovation.com » Blog Archive » Reviewing the trajectories of e-learning
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Gardens of Discussion: What Makes Online Communities Work? — Academic Technology
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Freire, MOOCs and Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Jenny Connected
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How to Make the Most of the Flipped Classroom -- Campus Technology
Saturday, January 25, 2014
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Saturday, January 18, 2014
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Predictions from 2013: MOOCs and Competency-based Education Top Pick « WCET Frontiers
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A history of open source content management system Drupal | opensource.com
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http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland02/proceedings/papers/173.pdf
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THE HARM OF BOOKLESSNESS - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Disappearance of Location-Based Learning
- “Location-based learning” is pretty much the definition of school. What happens to our traditional concept of “school” when technology advances to the point that location becomes completely unimportant to learning?
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How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
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Doubts About MOOCs Continue to Rise - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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An Evaluation of Student Outcomes by Course Duration in Online Higher Education
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Thoughts on Open Access Panels – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Progress and Proficiency: Redesigning Grading for Competency Education
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5 best practices in online learning | eSchool News | eSchool News
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Plan Your Free Online Education at Lifehacker U: Spring Semester 2014
Saturday, January 11, 2014
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Lynn University to drop Blackboard Learn in favor of iTunes U | Inside Higher Ed
- Beginning this fall, the university’s daytime undergraduate courses will be managed through Apple’s course management software, iTunes U.
- The move makes Lynn one of only a handful of institutions that offer more than a select few courses through iTunes U, and is noteworthy because Lynn will trade a more comprehensive system, Blackboard Learn, for a product lacking key features such as analytics, attendance tracking and gradebooks.
- Apple has developed pieces of something that could resemble an education strategy. Its laptops and tablets are ubiquitous on college campuses, thanks in part to an educational discount, and each new device comes pre-installed with iWork, Apple’s answer to Microsoft’s Office and Google’s Docs. Faculty members can build courses through iTunes U’s Course Manager, which can import custom-made textbooks from Apple’s iBooks app. But the company lacks some unifying piece of software that handles administrative tasks, and has shown little interest in challenging companies such as Blackboard, Desire2Learn and Instructure.
- it’s not an enterprise solution
- It’s still on a very personal level.”
- In other words, for a university to rely on Apple alone, every faculty member and student more or less needs to have their own Apple device
- a recently reformed core curriculum, known as “The Dialogues of Learning,” the upgraded wireless capabilities spurred Lynn to invest in a digital future
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The Effective Use of Video in Online Courses Infographic | e-Learning Infographics
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Digital Literacy Simply Explained ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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16 Ways Teachers Use Pinterest ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Teachers Manual on The Use of Pinterest in Education ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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A Straightforward Guide To Using Pinterest In Education - Edudemic
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Educators Guide to the use of Pinterest in Education ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Opportunities and Predictions, 2014 A.D. |e-Literate
- Synchronous online is largely dismissed — the sexy stuff is all in programmed, individuated learning these days, and individuated is culturally identified with asynchronous. That’s a mistake.
- I’ve talked about this before — but the problem with these sessions is they ditch the affordances that physical space provides to structure classroom discussion without taking advantage of the unique affordances of the Net.
- In other words, synchronous online is where asynchronous online was a number of years back, when the LMS was a glorified content management system
- they conceptualized themselves as content repositories, and became irrelevant as both quality content and quality content publishing approached zero cost.
- Adobe Connect and Blackboard Collaborate are, I think, in a similar place. They are perfect tools for sales presentations, but they remain education-illiterate products
- But Small Data is the revolution in progress.
- Why? Because the the two people most able to affect education in any given scenario are the student and the teacher. And the information they need to make decisions has to be grokable to them, and fit with their understanding of the universe.
- because both people involved with the situation can think meaningfully about the pattern and alter their behavior to affect it.
- It’s likely to be dashboard style stuff; visualizations, metrics, alerts. But the key will be removing the “secret sauce” mentality that most vendors have about the scoring of their analytics.
- made meaningful
- For the moment, however, small is beautiful, and future analytics products will have to identify to students and professors whether a poor prognosis is due to prior GPA, class attendance, or LMS logins
- at any given university with an online arm you’ll find that 25-40% of the online classes are taken by students who are already on campus. So the trend is here. It’s arrived.
- For an increasing audience of students this just isn’t true anymore. People take online due to course scarcity, or because they like an online experience “in the mix”.
- There’s been a lot of scattered experimentation on this front, but I think this is the year a college or two really cracks the code on this, weaving local online into their global curriculum intentionally, and (and this part’s the big part) making their unique approach to local online part of the marketing campaign of the college
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- It is not quite a degree mill, but they give out 4.0's for merely completing the work.” A tally of nearly 4,000 recent graduates conducted by the university showed satisfaction was increasing steadily and that 95 percent would recommend SNHU.
- It latest gambit is the College for America, which offers college degrees but has no courses and no faculty
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- SNHU’s predictive analytics platform plays watchdog, sending up a red flag to an instructor when a student hasn’t logged on recently or has spent too much time on an assignment
- It’s a cookie-cutter approach, and a far cry from what some might recognize as the hallmark of a vibrant education.
- adjuncts who act more like coaches than professors.
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Lyell Asher: When Students Evaluate Teachers, Standards Drop - WSJ.com
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- It would seem natural to combine massive-open-online-course platforms, which accommodate thousands of students, with adaptive-learning software, which responds to the needs of individual students. But so far that has not happened.
- “One possible trajectory for the MOOC technology,” they continued, “would be to reduce the cost of education simply by economizing on the use of teachers, using computerized feedback to support a course rather than online or offline personal guidance by a faculty member or a teaching assistant.
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New IPEDS Data: Top 20 online US institutions by sector |e-Literate
Saturday, January 4, 2014
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Changing Course Management Systems: Lessons Learned (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE.edu
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12 Tools For More Mindful Living | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
- Watch Urges. When I quit smoking in 2005, the most useful tool I learned was watching my urges to smoke. I would sit there and watch the urge rise and fall, until it was gone, without acting on it. It taught me that I am not my urges, that I don’t have to act on my urges, and this helped me change all my other habits. Watch your urge to check email or social media, to eat something sweet or fried, to drink alcohol, to watch TV, to be distracted, to procrastinate. These urges will come and go, and you don’t have to act on them.
- Let Go of Expectations. This is really the same thing as the previous two items, but I’ve found it useful nonetheless. It’s useful to watch your expectations with an upcoming situation, with a new project or business, and see that it’s not real and that it’s causing you stress and disappointment. We cause our own pain, and we can relieve it by letting go of the expectations that are causing it. Toss your expectations into the ocean.
- Become okay with Discomfort. The fear of discomfort is huge--it causes people to be stuck in their old bad habits, to not start the business they want to start, to be stuck in a job they don’t really like, because we tend to stick to the known and comfortable rather than try something unknown and uncomfortable. It’s why many people don’t eat vegetables or exercise, why they eat junk, why they don’t start something new. But we can be okay with discomfort, with practice. Start with things that are a little uncomfortable, and keep expanding your comfort zone.
- Learn to be okay with not knowing.
- grateful about in everything you do
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11 Expert Tips To Help You Be More Productive In 2014 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
- When I manage to remember that, I'm no longer sidetracked by trying to get into the right frame of mind for daunting projects. Don't beat yourself up for procrastinatory feelings. Just feel them, and simultaneously direct your limbs to do the work.”
- He says the “deal with it only once” policy works for three of the most nagging aspects of everyone’s day: email, meetings, and requests for help. Answer all as soon as they come up and get them out of the way
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy « You Are Not So Smart
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- You may not play Farmville, but there is probably something similar in your life. It could be a degree you want to change, or a career you want to escape, or a relationship you know is rotten. You don’t return to it over and over again to create good experiences and pleasant memories but to hold back the negative emotions you expect to feel if you accept the loss of time, effort, money or whatever else you have invested.
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"TED talks"
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How To Start An Online Program Infographic | e-Learning Infographics
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The 10 Best Film Schools In The United States in 2013 - The Best Colleges
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Colleges with Quality Programs in Film Studies | CollegeXpress
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Best Film Schools: The Hollywood Reporter Unveils the Top 25 Programs of 2013
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From E-Learning to M-Learning: A Different Beast - Yahoo Small Business Advisor