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Google Apps for Education is coming to UD
"Students will use Gmail to read and write all of their udel.edu e-mail. They will keep their udel.edu e-mail addresses, but access to their mail will be through Google's Gmail interface."
Online Learning: More Than Technical Savvy
"... the introduction of online experiences for students should be consciously engineered to best capitalize on their readiness for independent learning, and that the progression into the online learning environment be intentionally built into the undergraduate curriculum rather than simply offering students an open menu of face-to-face, hybrid, or fully online courses."
NSSE: National Survey of Student Engagement 2009
A national survey released today shows that a variety of colleges and universities have shown steady improvement in the quality of undergraduate education, as measured by students’ exposure to and involvement in effective educational practices. The 2009 report from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), Assessment for Improvement: Tracking Student Engagement Over Time, details results from a 2009 survey of 360,000 students attending 617 U.S. colleges and universities, and it includes a special look at trends in student engagement at more than 200 of those schools that had four to six year’s worth of data going back to 2004...
Students Unimpressed with Faculty Use of Ed Tech
"Students also rated that lack of understanding as "the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration."
Planning, hard work can cut college costs in half
"Starting in the junior year of high school and taking just one, four-credit community college class for the fall, spring and summer semesters would shave almost a full year off a four-year tuition tab. "
University Makes Twitter a Required Class for Journalism Students
"According to a senior lecturer at the University, “Some students’ tweets are not as in depth as you might like.” The solution? Make Twitter writing practice a compulsory part of the course curriculum for would-be journalists."
Blogging Guidelines for Schools
"The purpose of this document is to assist schools in developing a policy for the safe and educationally appropriate use of web-logs or blogs. Although the document addresses blogs specifically, the concepts can be applied to the use of a variety of read/write web tools designed to facilitate communication, commonly called Web2.0"
WHY IS COLLEGE SO EXPENSIVE?
"But the high cost of college is entirely avoidable! There is one higher education institution – York College in Pennsylvania – that shows that if colleges required their faculty to work harder (approximating the work week the rest of us find normal), held down administrative spending, and reined in borrowing for capital improvements, that these institutions could charge half of what they now do in tuition and fees."
Another Stab at Making the 21st Century Classroom Concrete
It’s really easy to say “21st Century Classroom,” it’s much harder to break it down and describe the components in a clear and concise way. We’ve taken three stabs at it and I think we’re getting pretty close. Figure it might be useful to someone.
JOBLESS GRAD SUES COLLEGE FOR 70G TUITION
The Monroe College grad wants the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she hasn't found gainful employment since earning her bachelor's degree in April, according to a suit filed in Bronx Supreme Court on July 24.
Summer institute helps doctoral students plan for academic careers
In addition to online information in Sakai and The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career as a primary text, the students' best resources were the experiences and knowledge shared by professors and administrators from the University of Delaware and other colleges and universities.
A Comparison of Student Perceptions of their Computer Skills to their Actual Abilities
This study explored U.S. college students’ perceived mastery of their computer skills, evaluated their actual scores on a computer skills assessment, and compared the results torealign and enhance an introductory business computer applications course.
Is Your University Ready For the Ne(x)t-Generation?
It answers the questions whether the net-generation already has arrived at universities or not and which consequences this fact has on the teaching and learning behaviors as well as infrastructural aspects of a university.
Five ways to use your VLE / LP to support homework
Well, it might not make you the most popular teacher, but if used well it can support colleagues and students with managing, tracking and even handing in homework. So, without much of a fanfare, and based purely on my thoughts after this morning here are Five Ways to use your VLE or Learning Platform to support homework.
Education without Communication
However, it feels as if something more is missing: Perhaps it is the ability for students to interact with each other and the teachers in the classroom. The increased use of educational technology has come between teachers and students, students and their peers.
PLNs, Portfolios, and a Loosely-Coupled Gradebook
The driving purpose behind these efforts is to bridge the gap between our institutional network and the cloud, between the predominant "course management system" (CMS) paradigm and the emerging model of personal learning networks (PLNs), between student-centered and institution-centered portfolios, etc.
Finding the Learning Network
This network leads me to fabulous online conference presentations, to books I need to read, to research I must evaluate, to opinions and actualities that I have to struggle with. they challenge, inform, inspire, doubt, demand, ask, and answer.
The New Student Excuse? Corrupted-Files.com
"Step 1: After purchasing a file, rename the file e.g. Mike_Final-Paper. Step 2: E-mail the file to your professor along with your 'here's my assignment' e-mail. Step 3: It will take your professor several hours if not days to notice your file is 'unfortunately' corrupted. Use the time this website just bought you wisely and finish that paper!!!"
Thoughts on cyber-stalking, digital identity
So please at least have the balls to stand up to someone who outed you on google and say “society! i draw a line around my private life and my family here, here, here. do not cross line or i will ___________ (fill in blank according to what your personality type or temperament allows).
Cheers to Sakai: New course Web site is a good alternative to Blackboard
Unlike Blackboard, Sakai allows professors and students to customize features in a way that best suits their needs.
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