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Saturday, June 21, 2014
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RUSC Vol. 11 No 2 Special Issue
E-learning in economics and business.
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Educational triage in open distance learning: Walking a moral tightro…
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Starbucks Paying for Employees Tuition at ASU Online |e-Literate
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Five Things Online Students Want from Faculty | Faculty Focus
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Jill Lepore: What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong : The New Yorker
- Disruption is a predictable pattern across many industries in which fledgling companies use new technology to offer cheaper and inferior alternatives to products sold by established players
- Startups are ruthless and leaderless and unrestrained, and they seem so tiny and powerless, until you realize, but only after it’s too late, that they’re devastatingly dangerous: Bang! Ka-boom! Think of it this way: the Times is a nation-state; BuzzFeed is stateless. Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror
- Replacing “progress” with “innovation” skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.
- disrupt, and you will be saved.
- In the longer term, victory in the disk-drive industry appears to have gone to the manufacturers that were good at incremental improvements, whether or not they were the first to market the disruptive new format. Companies that were quick to release a new product but not skilled at tinkering have tended to flame out.
- Disruptive innovation can reliably be seen only after the fact. History speaks loudly, apparently, only when you can make it say what you want it to say
- But, unless you already believe in disruption, many of the successes that have been labelled disruptive innovation look like something else, and many of the failures that are often seen to have resulted from failing to embrace disruptive innovation look like bad management.
- But among the many differences between disruption and evolution is that the advocates of disruption have an affinity for circular arguments.
- If an established company doesn’t disrupt, it will fail, and if it fails it must be because it didn’t disrupt
- When a startup fails, that’s a success, since epidemic failure is a hallmark of disruptive innovation. (“Stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it,” the organizers of FailCon, an annual conference, implore, suggesting that, in the era of disruption, innovators face unprecedented challenges. For instance: maybe you made the wrong hires?) When an established company succeeds, that’s only because it hasn’t yet failed. And, when any of these things happen, all of them are only further evidence of disruption.
- When the financial-services industry disruptively innovated, it led to a global financial crisis. Like the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the meltdown didn’t dim the fervor for disruption; instead, it fuelled it, because these products of disruption contributed to the panic on which the theory of disruption thrives.
- Christensen and Eyring also urge universities to establish “heavyweight innovation teams”
- The logic of disruptive innovation is the logic of the startup: establish a team of innovators, set a whiteboard under a blue sky, and never ask them to make a profit, because there needs to be a wall of separation between the people whose job is to come up with the best, smartest, and most creative and important ideas and the people whose job is to make money by selling stuff. Interestingly, a similar principle has existed, for more than a century, in the press. The “heavyweight innovation team”? That’s what journalists used to call the “newsroom.
- few of which are profitable
- isruptive innovation is a theory about why businesses fail. It’s not more than that. It doesn’t explain change. It’s not a law of nature. It’s an artifact of history, an idea, forged in time; it’s the manufacture of a moment of upsetting and edgy uncertainty. Transfixed by change, it’s blind to continuity. It makes a very poor prophet
- Three out of four startups fail. More than nine out of ten never earn a return.)
- If you start a business and it succeeds, Linkner advises, sell it and take the cash. Don’t look back. Never pause. Disrupt or be disrupted.
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
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After weeks of rumors, universities unveil the digital education consortium Unizin @insidehighered
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Big Data: An Evolution in Higher Education's Technology Landscape -- Campus Technology
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What Might the Future of Online Education Look Like? Imagining Several Scenarios …
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Digital Collections as Research Infrastructure (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
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After weeks of rumors, universities unveil the digital education consortium Unizin @insidehighered
"On a website that went live just after midnight this morning, organizers described Unizin as a sort of one-stop shop for digital education, supporting “flipped classroom[s], online courses/degrees, badged experiences for alumni, or even MOOCs if desired.”"
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Critical Success Factors of Technological Innovation (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
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The Universal Library Is Us: Library Work at Scale in HathiTrust (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
Saturday, June 7, 2014
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How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts - NYTimes.com
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Free Technology for Teachers: 9 Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images
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Head to head: does the confidence gap exist? | Women in Leadership | Guardian Professional
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5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn | MindShift
- Inquiry learning is an integrated approach that includes kinds of learning: content, literacy, information literacy, learning how to learn, and social or collaborative skills. Students think about the choices they make throughout the process and the way they feel as they learn.
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Goodbye to Tenure - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week
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New Rules Define Workload of Part-Time College Instructors | AdjunctNation.com
Saturday, May 31, 2014
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New Internet Trends Presentation: Mary Meeker gets education partly right | e-Literatee-Literate
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What Can Online Course Designers Learn from Research on Machine-Delivered Instruction? | AAUP
Comment: the problem with this is that adapting to students performance does not unveil what students don't understand.
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U.S. Online Degrees Pose Challenges for International Students - Yahoo News
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21st Century Classroom: Using Google Forms to Create Rubrics
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Inside Apollo's Massive Learning Platform -- Campus Technology
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Investigating Asynchronous Online Communication: A Connected Stance Revealed | The Sloan Consortium
Saturday, May 24, 2014
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Participants' Perceptions of Learning and Networking in Connectivist MOOCs
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Expanding Your Online Pedagogy Toolkit | Higher Ed Beta @insidehighered
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Finding the Momentum: An ePortfolio Implementation Success Story -- Campus Technology
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7 Universities Partner with IBM on Cognitive Computing Courses -- Campus Technology
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Life-Integrated Evolving Digital Diplomas (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
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The Power of Social Presence for Learning (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
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IT and the Legacy of Our Cultural Heritage (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu
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"Brandman University has selected Regent Education’s financial aid management solution to enable them to successfully transition to Competency Based Learning and support their innovative curriculum model. Regent 8 is the only financial aid management solution to offer complete support for all enrollment models including standard term, non-term, borrower-based and competency based learning."
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Frictionless Formative Assessment with Social Media | Edutopia
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What are Institutions Doing (or Not Doing) About State Authorization: 2014 Survey « WCET Frontiers
Saturday, May 17, 2014
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Ideas take shape for new accreditors aimed at emerging online providers @insidehighered
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The push to quantify the value of a college degree - Opinion - The Boston Globe
- Our first attempt to implement the model proved extremely beneficial. We learned that appropriately trained faculty can achieve a high degree of consensus on the quality of student work, thus demonstrating a valid basis for comparison
- The experiment also provided faculty participants with important insights, among them the need to rethink the way assignments are made. Many faculty discovered that their assignments would need to be redesigned if their students were to be able to demonstrate the competencies spelled out in the rubrics.
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Expanding Your Online Pedagogy Toolkit | Higher Ed Beta @insidehighered
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Get a College-Level Computer Science Education with These Free Courses
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Smithsonian makes deal to offer online courses - The Washington Post
Saturday, May 10, 2014
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Ideas take shape for new accreditors aimed at emerging online providers @insidehighered
- The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) is an association that represents colleges and recognizes accrediting organizations. The nonprofit group is mulling whether it could provide “quality review” for entities that fall outside of those that are currently accredited. One likely example would be StraighterLine, an unaccredited, online education company that offers low-cost courses but not credentials.
- Modern States, a play on the name of a regional accreditor, would do reviews for individual online courses, rather than institutions.
- ergeron and Klinsky said their goal is to increase students’ access to low- or zero-cost online courses. While there has been a rapid expansion of these offerings, such as courses from Coursera or edX, the pathway to credit has not kept pace with the technology.
- Modern States will be a nonprofit, Klinsky said. The hope is that it will be a “catalyst” to move traditional colleges to recognize more credits for courses from high-quality providers like Coursera. He wants Modern States to prevent the growth of low-cost online learning from being squashed by entrenched interests in the academy – or by a flood of weak, low-quality alternatives.
- Eaton said possible candidates for these reviews might include the Mozilla Foundation’s badging platform, or even short-term academies like Koru or General Assembly, which provide work-place training in areas like computer programming.
- In contrast, Modern States would review individual courses from online providers to ensure that they are rigorous and academically sound. Students who took those courses would then need to successfully complete an assessment that would seek to measure what they had learned.
- Some players already offer services that are similar to what the two groups are proposing. For example, the American Council on Education (ACE), which is higher education’s umbrella group, does institutional reviews for credit recommendations, which colleges can choose to accept or reject for transfer credit. The bulk of those reviews are focused on training by large corporations, such as McDonald’s. But ACE has also approved a handful of MOOCs for credit recommendations. (The National College Credit Recommendation Service plays a similar role.)
- The excitement about course-based academic reviews is interesting to Deb Adair, managing director and chief planning officer for Quality Matters, a Maryland-based nonprofit group. Quality Matters has conducted certification reviews for almost 5,000 online courses during the last decade.
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https://www.icc.edu/innovation/PDFS/assessmentEvaluation/RevisedBloomsChart_bloomsverbsmatrix.pdf
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http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/oie/documents/assesments/Blooms%20Level.pdf
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"They will earn salaries that are lower than what assistant professors make at many traditional institutions. And although they will have some hand in guiding the curriculum and in making academic policy, they will not serve as a significant check on administrative power."
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Programs | The Quality Collaboratives | Degree Qualifications Profile
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DQP draft version 2.0 open for public comment until March 15 | Lumina Foundation
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http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/The_Degree_Qualifications_Profile.pdf
Saturday, May 3, 2014
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | Talk Video | TED.com
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The Landing: Connectivism: a learning theory or a theory of how to learn?
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"Future-Focused Leadership: Three Mega-Trends Influencing Distance Lear" by Connie I. Reimers-Hild
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Why #NetNeutrality Matters to Higher Ed – ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Panel Is Split on Distance-Education Rule - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Gallup-Purdue study will measure graduates' quality of life outcomes | Inside Higher Ed
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Are We Who We Think We Are? ePortfolios as a Tool for Curriculum Redesign | The Sloan Consortium
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Wake Forest U. tries to measure well-being | Inside Higher Ed