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Apr 11, 12
- Math & reading ability of “regular” high school students. Prep level for college
- More than 80% of the students who participate in the Rossier SummerTime program for low-income, college-bound students have never written a five-page paper.
- motivation for college
- encouragement towards university education vs. career
- inefficiency of previous schooling (skip important steps)
- community college: math = rules
- assess these issues in community college; perhaps more individual focus? tutoring
- adult environment: family to take care of; income; independence; age
- English = rules; grammar; do what the teacher wants
- answer the prompt
- follow the structure / outline
- encourage creative writing
- STEM - decide career goals solely based on academics
- teacher education & curriculum planning
- “current events” ; integration of disciplines
- IGERT
- more hands on field trips / experiences
- career-specific technology
- Financial aid - parental refusal; is education a right?
- other countries’ higher education systems
- standards-based reform (e.g. NCLB)
- college entrance exams (undergrad / grad)
- online education as solution to impacted majors & over-enrollment?
- stereotype threat
- Higher Education Bubble
- Math & reading ability of “regular” high school students. Prep level for college
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Apr 23, 12
Read the books he cited from Day 1 - promote GE education
Day 2 - check out the 4 programs promoting multidisciplinary learning -
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Jan 02, 12
Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location.
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Apr 09, 12
MIT's online learning initiative is led by MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif, and its development will be coupled with an MIT-wide research initiative on online teaching and learning under his leadership.
...already gained experience in online technologies through many courses that already include significant online components. These technologies include online tutors, online laboratories, crowd-sourced grading of programs, machine learning and automatic transcription.
see "How will MITx be financed?"
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/special-programs/sp-291-learning-seminar-experiments-in-education-spring-2003/syllabus/
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-126j-economics-of-education-spring-2007/index.htm
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/07/rice-university-announces-open-source-textbooks
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2012/03/21/essay-how-use-youtube-teaching-tool -
Apr 11, 12
what David E. Goldberg, an emeritus engineering professor, calls “the math-science death march.” Freshmen in college wade through a blizzard of calculus, physics and chemistry in lecture halls with hundreds of other students. And then many wash out.
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