KPI_Library Bookmarks's List: Newsfeed_050710

By Tracy Jan in the Boston Globe, May 5 2010. In Massachusetts, a new plan to "measure and report student achievement," called the Vision Project. Development of the plan included all 29 of the state's public colleges, universities, and community colleges.

By Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman for the Newark Star-Ledger, May 5 2010. NJ Governor Christie is appointing a panel to study higher education issues in New Jersey; the panel will be led by former governor (and former university president) Tom Kean.

By Pete Plastrik on nuPOLIS, April 15 2010, 2 quick facts relevant to social innovation.

By Diana G. Oblinger, in EDUCAUSE Review, 45(2), March/April 2010. In an opinion piece, the President and CEO of EDUCAUSE looks at the future of higher education.

By Andrew Bonamici, Steven G. Huter, and Dale Smith in EDUCAUSE Review, 45(2), March/April 2010, pp 10-11. Those of us in the "developed" world (North America, Europe, etc.) rely on cyberinfrastructure to gain access to the vast amounts of information available on the Web. But what about students and researchers in the rest of the world?

From Education Week, April 21 2010. This article is not available for free, online. If you are not an Education Week subscriber, check with your local library for full text of this article.

Interesting academic opportunity in London, an MSc in Learning Technologies offered by the London Knowledge Lab. The program directors are Diana Laurillard and Alex Poulovassilis. The program focuses both on computer science and on learning theory. Link to application details on this page.

This special issue of the London Review of Education, 8 (1) 2010, looks at virtual learning. Co-editors are Gwyneth Hughes and Martin Oliver (affiliated with London Knowledge Lab). Full text articles are available for purchase from this page (publisher site). Check with your local library for full text articles.

Presented by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, April 2010. This guide, "is the result of a year-long cross-foundation effort to develop common principles, approaches, and taxonomies to help staff decide how best to allocate time and resources for data collection and analysis." Link to the PDF of the full guide from this page.

By Claudio Sanchez on Morning Edition (NPR), April 22 2010. The Boston Teacher Residency program (BTR) models itself on medical residency programs. Prospective teachers take education classes and work directly with mentor teachers to gain on-the-job experience.

eduTecher is a great place to look at new educational technologies, or to find just the right technology to do a job (e.g. document collaboration or word clouds). Each tool is reviewed by the staff, and users can search the database various ways. While many tools have a K-12 focus, there are plenty that would be useful in postsecondary education as well.

By Garry Boulard in Community College Times, published May 4 2010. The article looks at the finding that, the more times a student takes a specific developmental math course, the less likely he or she is to pass it. Quotes Paul Nolting, learning specialist, enrollment services advisor, and author of Winning at Math: Your Guide to Learning Mathematics Through Successful Study Skills.

By CC (Community College) Times, published April 21 2010. This article reports on Bill Gates's visit to Foothill College to observe the Math My Way program. From the article, "Math My Way groups cohorts of students who have similar math skill levels." Students then work in small groups, and one-on-one with instructors, as well as using both computer and paper drills and games.

Published by SETDA (State Educational Technology Directors Association), April 21 2010. This report summarizes a national survey of the 50 "states' implementation of the technology sections of the ESEA [Elementary and Secondary Education Act], Title II, Part D (Title II-D) Act."

By David Nagel, in Policy & Advocacy section of THE Journal, April 23 2010. The article announces the newly published National Educational Technology Trends: 2010, Innovation Through State Leadership report, published by State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA). Trends include "enhancing teacher effectiveness" through professional development and "scaling up success" by expanding innovative programs that have worked. Report is bookmarked as well, see trends_edtech tag.