Shawn Calhoun (shawncalhoun)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

Member since Jan 22, 2009, follows 3 people, 3 public groups, 1173 public bookmarks (1174 total).

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Information Processing : 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook on 2009-06-02
Education Week: 'No Effects' Studies Raising Eyebrows on 2009-04-01
- randomized controlled trials
- gold standard
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- - Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University education professor and the former lead adviser on President Barack Obama’s education transition team. "But we’re spending a lot of money on some pretty poor designs which are not likely to give us results. It's as though in the education community we’ve taken the gold standard and turned it into a tin standard.
WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory on 2009-03-23
ACRL - Top ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries and librarians on 2009-03-20
- digitization of unique print collections may emerge as one of the primary missions of academic libraries in the 21st century
Study tests effectiveness of podcasts vs. lectures on 2009-03-18
production / 18 / 03 / 2009 / News / Home - Inside Higher Ed on 2009-03-18
M-Libraries - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki on 2009-03-18
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky on 2009-03-17
A Straight-Talk Survival Guide for Colleges - Chronicle.com on 2009-03-16
- organizations that can't or won't adapt will fail
- The institutions that will survive will be those that have built collaborations among internal groups in order to compete externally for students, faculty talent, and financial resources
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- - Guard your enrollments and make the changes needed to assure students that they'll graduate on time
  - there is no better time to be strategic
  - Protect your major revenue stream.
  - Require every administrator with a master's or doctoral degree to teach a course.
  - one-stop service
  - Halve the size of all committees and reduce the number of times any committee is allowed to meet by the same amount.
Springshare - Web 2.0 applications for libraries and educational institutions. on 2009-03-14

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Clif's Notes on EdTech

569 members, 1425 items

Resources on Education, Technology and More.
elearning 2.0

541 members, 1989 items

This group is for all those interested in the use of social software for learning and in developing new pedagogic approaches to elearning
WORDLE

296 members, 169 items

Educators and students can use WORDLE in a variety of ways, including assessment, evaluation and presentation. WORDLE can be a powerful tool for learning and teaching. By forming this group, collaboration will increase our knowledge and use of this web application.