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14 Dec 08

This Week In Education: FRITZ: The Inauguration Day Countdown

It is College costs are skyrocketing even as low- and middle-income families struggle to make ends meet. Federal and state financial aid hasn't kept up, forcing more students to borrow more money than ever before. Many colleges claim that rising costs are unavoidable, because—unlike other industries—higher education is inherently labor-intensive and cannot become more efficient. But a growing number of institutions, mostly public universities operating below the elite institution radar screen, are proving otherwise. They're using technology to transform undergraduate education, dramatically cutting labor costs while improving student learning results at the same time. Is this the future of higher education? What does this mean for the professoriate and the role of colleges in the creation of new knowledge? And why aren't more of these cost savings being passed on to students?

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Related Top News - Tech trends every school leader should know

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Rust described how many CTOs use emotional appeals, such as "technology will save this school," or appeals to stakeholders' sense of pity, or even appeals based on blind faith with no supporting research, when advocating for ed-tech expenditures.
Gartner predicts that by 2010, the IT profession will be split into four domains:

1. Technology Infrastructure and Services. Now composing 65 percent of IT staff, this segment will dwindle to 40 percent. This group should emphasize technical knowledge, such as: "How does this technology work?"

2. Information Design and Management--will rise from 20 percent to 30 percent. This group will need to focus more on business-specific knowledge, such as: "What makes this institution tick?"

3. Process Design and Management--will rise from 10 percent to 20 percent. This group will need to balance business knowledge with core process knowledge, such as: "What processes make this area unique," and with industry knowledge, such as: "What characterizes this sector?"

4. Relationship and Sourcing Management--will rise from 5 percent to 10 percent. This group will need to balance business knowledge with core process knowledge.

26 Nov 08

Daddy, Where's Your Phone? - O'Reilly Radar

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But I plead guilty to Kamla's charge: I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an add on. The tipping point has come; that notion has to flip: if we're trying to get ahead of the curve, we need to think first about the phone, and then think about the PC browser experience as the add-on.

13 Jul 08

UNC School of Education

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Her work is grounded in social constructivism as espoused by Bakhtin: "Truth is not to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction."