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Recommended Reading: Fear of Looking Stupid -
- The one that made the headline of the article is faculty being afraid of looking stupid in front of their students, but two other important ones were fear of punishment from bad course evaluations (or "smile sheets," as they are sometimes derogatorily called) and deep "gut" convictions based on personal experience that they know what good teaching is and will prefer that instinct over the findings of a research article.
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R Cheat Sheets | R Statistical Programming Language | r-directory
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R Handy Reference Links | R Statistical Programming Language | r-directory
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Free PDF E-Books on R | R Statistical Programming Language | r-directory
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R Programming for Data Science
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elearn Magazine: A Fundamental Look at Cultural Diversity and the Online Classroom
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No Significant Difference - Unless you are a Jumper | Fendler
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Stephen's Web ~ An Online Engagement Framework for Higher Education ~ Stephen Downes
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Why It Takes a Village to Boost Industry Demand for Short-Term Credentials
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Study finds evidence of racial and gender bias in online education
- The study found that instructors are 94 percent more likely to respond to discussion forum posts by white male students than by other students.
- The study looked at discussion forums in 124 massive open online courses (all were provided on a single MOOC platform that the paper does not identify, citing confidentiality requirements).
- Over all, instructors responded to 7 percent of comments posted by students. But for white male students, the response rate was 12 percent.
- Simply attaching a name that connotes a specific race and gender to a discussion forum post changes the likelihood that an instructor will respond to that post."
- same in courses in science and technology and in other subject areas.
- Here the study found that female, white and Indian students were more likely to respond to the fictional students who were from their own group.
- white female students were significantly more likely to respond to posts by white women than were other students
- Because online courses are typically asynchronous, these forums provide a uniquely important venue for instructor-to-student and student-to-student engagement,"
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Online University Programs and Microcredentials Enhance Professional Learning - EdTech
Saturday, March 24, 2018
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