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21 Mar 08

A vision of the mobile, connected college experience - Today in Abilene, Texas » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  • The video is a carefully formatted and scripted production, but still quite impressive as a vision for utilizing mobile technologies in transformative ways for learning. I was particularly interested in the comments made by ACU instructors in the video. Students were provided with choices right in class, which they responded to as polls on their iPhone right away. Students self-selected a hybrid version of a class which included both online discussions and face-to-face meetings, or a more traditional seminar-style class that met entirely face-to-face. Students were encouraged to use their iPhone as a digital voice recorder to conduct interviews, as well as take photographs for a class project. I especially picked up on the comment, by one of the students, that most of the course lectures were provided in advance of class so the face-to-face time could be utilized for discussions and interaction. This is a vision of
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    21st century blended learning
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    , powered by ubiquitous student access to iPhones as well as professors adapting their pedagogic approaches to instruction in ways which appropriately leverage the transformative learning potential of mobile devices.
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Top News - Schools respond to iPhone's popularity

  • Educational utility of iPhone in a higher ed environment. Doubles as a Student Response System, Research tool, Alert mechanism, Polling/Survey system, etc.
     - edventures on 2008-03-21
  • Campus officials roll out programs to take advantage of the iPhone's potential as a converged, mobile learning device
30 Jan 08

How Should Colleges Assess And Improve Student Learning? (pdf)

  • Interesting read from the standpoint of employers receiving our college and university graduates. They like project based learning such as capstone projects, internships, etc. They like electronic portfolios, which is the first real evidence I've seen of a demand for e-portfolios outside of the walls of academia.They dislike multiple choice tests as they don't feel that they are accurate assessments of student learning (wow, go figure!).
     - edventures on 2008-01-30
09 Feb 07

EDUCAUSE Quarterly | Volume 30 Number 1 2007

  • Another voice for a sea change in the praxis of higher education, this article has some pertinent insights into how those of
    us in higher education must begin to address and challenge some of the older
    paradigms which are inhibiting our ability to transform our praxis into one
    more suitable to the 21st century.

     - edventures on 2007-02-09

  • suppose for a moment that it's the 1930s..."


    ...You're the captain of the luxury liner, the Queen Mary, steaming across the Atlantic to New York. Suddenly, you hear a low drone. You look up and see a Pan Am Clipper, winging its way from London to New York. Would you realize that the age of steamships is about to end? Would the steamship company understand that its business actually is transportation, not ships?

Students offer Net advice to colleges | CNET News.com

  • Interesting points that higher ed should pull:
    • Online personas are important to establish "street cred"
    • Don't ban, EDUCATE, students on privacy and internet safety
    • Wi-Fi means connections in both the virtual and real sense, make wireless access a priority
    • Research is happening online, don't fight it, embrace it and in doing so, improve the online research experience. Provide tools for digital literacy and improved research skills in a digital age.
    The question is, will the colleges and universities pay attention?

     - edventures on 2007-02-09
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