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U21 Rankings of National Higher Education Systems
A ranking of higher education systems based on resources, environment, connectivity and output.


New research into national education systems gives the first ranking of countries and territories which are the ‘best’ at providing higher education.

Universitas 21 has developed the ranking as a benchmark for governments, education institutions and individuals. It aims to highlight the importance of creating a strong environment for higher education institutions to contribute to economic and cultural development, provide a high-quality experience for students and help institutions compete for overseas applicants.

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Separate But Equal?
July 25, 2011 - 3:00am
By
Scott Jaschik
When a women's college announces plans to admit men, the norm is for officials to talk about the need to broaden the pool of potential applicants, and for some students and alumnae to react with horror. In those respects, the news out of Peace College on Thursday was typical -- as was the outrage.
But part of Peace College's announcement was quite different from the pattern: the college announced that once it admits men, some courses will remain single sex. The official announcement said that "the new coeducational institution will continue to be student-centered. One way is ... to offer select single-gender courses in targeted disciplines where research shows that women and men learn differently and that each benefit from a single-gender classroom. As a coeducational institution, all classes will be accessible to all students."
Several legal experts on gender discrimination in higher education said that there are significant legal questions about the idea.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 bars gender-based discrimination at schools and colleges receiving federal funds. Private women's colleges have an exemption from Title IX in their admissions policies, so it is legal for them to admit only women. But Title IX generally has barred single-sex courses except in limited situations such as physical education and chorus classes. Under the second Bush administration, then-Education Secretary Margaret Spellings issued regulations that significantly expanded the right of public schools to offer separate courses for male and female students, but those regulations apply to elementary and secondary education, not higher education.

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FACULTY FOCUS
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ARTICLES
May 21 - Academic Rigor: Lessons from Room 10
By: James Ricky Cox, PhD in Faculty Development
Room 10 was often an uncomfortable place. I dreaded having to walk in there. Room 10 felt a bit like Hell’s Kitchen and my teacher, Mrs. H, was the Gordon Ramsey of chemistry teachers, to use a current analogy. Was the teacher really that mean and the course that tough? Yes, she was mean and AP chemistry was one difficult course. Mrs. H’s handwriting was atrocious, and by today’s standards, she didn’t create a supportive learning environment. Despite all this, I noticed that the best students at my school signed up for AP chemistry with Mrs. H. I hesitated before signing up for the course, but something drew me to the experience.

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Early Alert Program
The Early Alert classroom assistance program at Sinclair Community College is an intervention program teaming faculty, counselors, and advisors together in order to promote the success of students facing challenges.
 

An Overview:
  
Early Alert is an intervention program that allows for faculty to notify advisors/counselors of issues that may affect the success of a student. 
It is a simple way of assisting students in difficulty find the help they need while taking very little time.
Web-based Early Alert notifications are easy ways to promote the retention efforts of the college and the success of students.
Utilized currently in all DEV courses, English 111, select Math courses, and SCC 101 courses.

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Flare at Purdue in October 
  Hi everyone. Can someone provide more information for the upcoming SoLAR FLARE event at Purdue in October? Thanks, Kelvin Bentley
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EDUCAUSE Survey on Analytics - Looking for International Input 
  Colleagues, EDUCAUSE is soliciting input on analytics in higher education. They have currently sent email to their current members, but are looking for additional participation from the international community. We would greatly appreciate if you could complete the survey below. -- john... more »
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CFP: #Influence12: Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media 
  Hi Everyone, If you are interested in Learning Analytics and Social Media, I invite you to submit a short position paper or poster to the Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media. The event is set for September 28-29, 2012 in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. All submissions are due *June 15, 2012*.... more »
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LA beginnings 
  Learning Analytics isn't really new, it is just getting more publicity now as a result of the buzz word name change. Institutions have been collecting data about students for a long time, but only a few people dealt with the data. Instructors kept gradebooks and many tracked student progress locally - by hand. What's new about Learning... more »

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Analytics in Higher Education: Establishing a Common Language
Title: Analytics in Higher Education: Establishing a Common Language (ID: ELI3026)
Author(s): Angela van Barneveld (Purdue University), Kimberly Arnold (Purdue University) and John P. Campbell (Purdue University)
Topics: Academic Analytics, Action Analytics, Analytics, Business Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Learning Analytics, Predictive Analytics, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Origin: ELI White Papers, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) (01/24/2012)
Type: Articles, Briefs, Papers, and Reports

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First, the ongoing exploration of the reliability and validity of the psychometric assessment instrument designed to measure and stimulate change in learning power, for which I was one of three originators between 2000 and 2002. To date I have been able to collect large data sets (n=>50,000) and have published reliability and validity statistics in four  peer reviewed journal articles. Second, the application of the concept and assessment of learning power in pedagogy in school, community and corporate sectors, and in particular its contribution to personalisation of learning through authentic enquiry. Third, the contribution of learning power and enquiry to what we know about complexity in education, particularly through the development of systems learning and leadership as a vehicle for organisational transformation. Finally, the application of learning power assessment strategies to the emerging field of learning analytics and agent-based modelling.

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TEQSA was established on 30 July 2011 by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011.

TEQSA now has its own dedicated website which can be viewed at www.teqsa.gov.au.

To contact TEQSA please email enquires@teqsa.gov.au  or call 1300 739 585.

DEEWR is releasing a draft of the Qualification Standards for public consultation. The Qualification Standards will be applied by TEQSA under the new quality assurance and regulatory arrangements for the higher education sector. The Qualification Standards, together with the Provider Standards, will form the Threshold Standards.

A public consultation draft of the Standards is now available below:

Draft Qualification Standards ( PDF 537KB | RTF 238KB)
This draft has been prepared based on the Australian Qualifications Framework which was endorsed by the Ministerial Council for Tertiary Education and Employment in April 2011 and implemented in July 2011.

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TEQSA
The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is Australia's regulatory and quality agency for higher education. TEQSA's primary aim is to ensure that students receive a high quality education at any Australian higher education provider.

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The extensive quality assurance arrangements that underpin AQF qualifications are the responsibility of other authorities.

The following links to the external quality assurance mechanisms in each of the three sectors (Schools, Vocational Education and Training and Higher Education) reflect the tri-sector model on which the AQF is largely based.

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Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF)
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The Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) provides the standards for Australian qualifications in Australian education and training. The AQF is a taxonomic structure of 10 levels and 16 qualification types each described by learning outcomes and volumes of learning. QUT accredits qualification types from level 5 to level 10.

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If you have been using a computer for more than about 10 minutes, you have encounter a .zip file. Used as a method of compressing large files down to a more manageable size, .zip archives are also a great way to bundle multiple files together for ease of transfer and transport.

And now you can review these file archives directly on your iPad with WinZip, made available by the same experts who have been at this technology for the last 20 years.


Whether you come across a .zip archive in your email or webmail, it only takes a moment to open them and review the contents. Provided the included files are in one of the supported formats (.txt, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .pdf, .key, .numbers, .pages, .htm, .htm, .jsp, .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .png, .gif), you can easily click on each file to preview them using this app. A very handy feature of this app allows you to select content from those contained files and copy it to the clipboard for use elsewhere on your iPad.

Multi-file attachments are not a problem either!

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Doodlecast Pro for iPad expands on Doodlecast for Kids (PadGadget = 4 stars). Not only is the app really fun to use, but it has the potential to help students, teachers, or anyone who needs to present and record information, visually save and share their ideas.

Doodlecasters can use this app to create lessons to share with students, to annotate graphs or other materials for presentation, and to keep track of the creative process. Whether the user chooses Doodlecast to help with a fun task, or a work-related assignment, he will find using the app is both simple and enjoyable to use.

The menu bar houses all of the command buttons to run the app. It vanishes while you are working, (unless you turn it off this feature in settings) but can be recalled with a tap. There are controls on the menu bar that allow the user to create a new Doodlecast, preview your work, or share your work to via email, to the iPad photo library, or straight to YouTube.

With Doodlecast Pro the user can also add a variety of preset backgrounds to turn the screen into graph paper, or a comic strip. Plus, the app lets you import photos from the camera roll to draw on:

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PDF Annotation Apps
The Power Of Acrobat Pro In The Palm Of Your Hands

Overview
PDFs have become the default format for sharing formatted documents across platforms. If you only want to read PDFs, iBooks will likely meet your needs. But, if you want to modify or annotate your PDFs, you'll need a different app with a larger toolkit. The App Store has many options, but they all have such similar descriptions that it can be difficult to determine which one has the features you need. At the very least, all PDF annotators should allow users to underline, highlight, or strikethrough text, add a note, and write on the PDF (preferably via both keyboard text and handwriting). This AppGuide includes apps that do all of that and more, so that your iPad can be your first choice when you need to annotate a PDF.

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PDF Reader Pro Review
By Simon Burns On 8 May, 2012 At 09:28 AM | Categorized As iPad, Reviews | With No comments yet and 4 Reactions

Well now, this really is a comprehensive app. PDF Reader Pro, for both iPhone and iPad, is a PDF viewer for your iOS device, like many that are available... 




OrganiDoc HD iPad Review
By Simon Burns On 4 May, 2012 At 09:51 PM | Categorized As iPad, Reviews | With No comments yet and 1 Reaction

The developer of OrganiDoc HD, Wenjoy Technology, cleverly describes the iPad as your personal data hub, and they are correct. You use your iPad for...

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Events
TEQSA briefings for the higher education sector 2012
TEQSA held its first provider briefing on 27 March, informing the higher education sector about the Agency, requirements and approach for registration, accreditation and risk assessment.

The second briefing will be held during August in Sydney. Attendance at these events will be by invitation and more details will be available on this website shortly.

Presentations from 27 March provider briefing:

TEQSA’s Regulatory Framework
TEQSA Regulatory Risk Framework
TEQSA fact sheet – Data Collection
Course Accreditation and CRICOS
Registration as a higher education provider and change of provider category
Renewal of registration in 2012

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