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07 Jan 10

Views: The Year Ahead in IT - Inside Higher Ed

  • Finally, the new normal is reflected in the contrarian wisdom of the need to be more, not less, innovative, more creative, not more conventional. During a downturn, at the very moment when the real fiscal pressures leads to squeezing out almost all of our abilities to provide strategic capacity, this is the very time our universities need it most.
  • end-user expectations for near real time, free, and fully integrated services to their consumer world
04 Jan 10

News: How to Thrive (or Survive) - Inside Higher Ed

  • The key to the success, she said, is something that not all professors are good at recognizing: their individual priorities may not match those of their institution.
  • promoting global competence, a set of skills and knowledge that just about every business and education organization says is crucial for college graduates.
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16 Dec 09

Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • One possibility is that the mere act of learning about learning styles prompts teachers to pay more attention to the kinds of instruction they are delivering. An instructor who attends a learning-styles seminar might start to offer a broader mixture of lectures, discussions, and laboratory work—and that variety of instruction might turn out to be better for all students, irrespective of any "matching."
  • "What we do try to get professors to do," Ms. Rundle says, "and where we've been successful, is to become aware of their own learning style and how that affects the way they teach. What are some things that they can do in the classroom other than just lecturing?"
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09 Dec 09

Computer Labs Get Rebooted as Lounges - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • virtual computing labs.
  • Martin Ringle, chief technology officer at Reed College
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03 Dec 09

The Cloud Opens the Floodgates for Faculty Innovation -- Campus Technology

  • We are so lost in the midst of this flowering that we cannot see the opportunities before us, nor understand that learners and researchers and teachers have been freed of the physical limitations that, for always, have defined all our processes and values.
20 Nov 09

Views: A Defense of the Lecture - Inside Higher Ed

  • At the same time, it seems to me that such discussions are pretty rare, even among professional academics (note how often people will express surprise that a conference session had good discussion).
  • A big part of that has to be getting them to a point where they are good readers.
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Blog U.: Challenges and Opportunities of the Small Screen - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed

  • It seems to me that libraries have made a mistake in trying to have physical e-reading devices available for checkout, rather then having the digital file available that students (and faculty and staff) can check-out to the mobile devices that they already own.
  • Students are amongst the busiest people on earth. Perhaps they will be more likely to read an assigned chapter if they can grab some snippets during those "in-between" times on their mobile device. Later they can crawl up for extended times with the paper book, or on an e-reader, the point is to offer choice.
18 Nov 09

Teaching Experiment Decodes a Discipline - Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education

article about course redesign that illustrates scaffolding of more complex skills; some of the scaffolding is done in online exercises

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  • Every area of study, the Indiana scholars say, has its own distinctive bottleneck—concepts or tasks that many students never quite grasp. Biology students, for example, have trouble developing accurate mental images of molecules. Many professors are so familiar with these bottleneck concepts that they find them difficult to explain.
  • As those conversations proceeded, the professors realized that they expected their students to perform a variety of complex interpretive tasks, but that they rarely modeled those tasks in the classroom
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17 Nov 09

Geeky Mom: The Future of Educational/Instructional Technology

  • Most of the uses I've seen have come from the faculty themselves, who increasingly are using these tools in their own work, so it becomes natural to them to try to use them in their teaching. No extra staff needed. And usually, no cost for the tools themselves.
  • After all, sometimes, the IT people (ed tech people included) get wowed by the technology and jump in head first without thinking about whether or not it will actually get used. Even if the cost is only in time, that's still a cost that some can ill afford.
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28 Oct 09

Perspectives: Technology Leadership in the Liberal Arts » Book Futures – Michael Spalti, Willamette University

blog post on the future of digital books in the library

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  • Our library of fifteen years hence would contain language and multimedia labs, group work spaces, quiet places for study, data analysis and geo-spatial mapping, live and recorded video feeds from around the world, professional staff and faculty offices, academic centers, a state-of-the-art classroom and, of course, a coffee shop on the first floor. 
  • academic books to be distributed and used primarily in digital form
    • we are seeing this ebooks, kindles, etc. and also see the new BookServer - on 2009-10-28
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Views: The Kids Are All Right - Inside Higher Ed

  • We must remember that when we compare students past and present, we may be using an unfair comparison group.

    We run the risk of using our own past experience as the default comparison group.

  • Thus, we should be careful to avoid portraying our personal academic experiences and motivations as the benchmark for comparisons.
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Techne » Help Students Read the Web Critically

on social bookmarking and web annotating with diigo

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  • It’s like everything I do when I read on paper
  • The clear antecedent for website annotation in paper-based research practices makes it an easy sell for me and those older than me, especially those in academia.
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News: E-Learning's 'Third Phase' - Inside Higher Ed

  • “The first phase was faculty saying, ‘How do I get this stuff on the Web if I don’t know HTML?’ ” Green said. The second phase involved adding features that let students interact with their professors and each other in that space. The third phase, he explained, will involve figuring out how to extract value from all those transactions.
  • Green said being able to refer to these real-time profiles of student engagement could allow colleges to administer “targeted and thoughtful interventions” in cases where engagement was less than it could be -- either at an individual or systematic level.
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