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Despite all the questions about whether college is worth it or not, college graduates have gotten through through the recession and lackluster recovery with remarkable resilience.
Via Alberto Acereda, PhD
This post introduces the potential of using mobile games as effective tools for adult learners living in a society of constant movement, where the massive penetration of mobile technology is an undeniable fact.
Via Christopher Pappas
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - February 15, 2013) - OfCours.es, a new NYC-based educational initiative, announced today their selection of small, online, personalized courses for people looking to acquire workplace technology skills at a reasonable...
Executive leadership development shares similarities with other learning programs. For example, it must direct itself to the specific needs of its audience, and learner reflection is important to increase retention for on-the-job application.
Via Christopher Pappas
This case study is the result of semi-structured interviews with teaching faculty, other staff and students involved in health Open Educational Resources (OER)
Via Andreas Link
Last month, the NY Times declared 2012 as the year of the MOOC. With so many educators and students involved in these courses, we should think about how we can best convert the university course experience to this new, scalable online experience.
Via Christopher Pappas
Slides from the NCSE sponsored webinar on Nov 8
Via Andreas Link
Academics should be engaged with the wider world, but impact, if it is routinised, loses its potential to change the dynamic of a system. Chris Hackley writes that the research that influences poli...
Via dirkvl
Higher education is based largely on the assumption that students want degrees, and therefore they want the courses that are required to earn those degrees. And that assumption has been valid. Degrees have been a “ticket” that offered the possibility of admission to a desirable career (if it wasn’t sold out). But as more and more people sought and received degrees, the increasing number of tickets available decreased the probability that the ticket would guarantee admission. And, as more and more institutions were printing tickets based on their own criteria, it became more and more difficult for the gatekeepers to know which ticketholders should be admitted. Many of the applicants already possess what appears to be a valid ticket, and the tickets carry very little information: Name of institution/Name of degree. That’s it. In the next few years, I predict we’ll see more and more adult students interested in accumulating digital badges, as opposed to wanting course credits or degrees. Digital badges are more modular, they do a much better job of describing what the badge holder can do, and they can be assembled in ways that highlight how an individual stands out from the crowd. They can illustrate how he or she has the core qualifications required for consideration, and also has a series of related skills, perspectives, and attributes that add up to competitive advantage. And the quality of each badge can be interrogated with a single click of the mouse.
Via DML Competition
Crowdsourcing continues to confound traditional approaches to organizational problem solving.
Via JohnThompson
Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.
Via kimeke, Anne Whaits
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I sift through reams of words and worlds of pedagogy. I blink through bytes of pedagogy and educational concerns. May 2013 and still the drums beat on about 21st Century Learning. May 2013, and one...
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - February 15, 2013) - OfCours.es, a new NYC-based educational initiative, announced today their selection of small, online, personalized courses for people looking to acquire workplace technology skills at a reasonable...
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Randal Charlton had great strokes of midlife success — then he didn't. He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef.
Via Keith Hampson PhD
Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas, working to build communities of ideas and idealists through his writing, facilitation, consulting, and speaking. Hi...
Via Tibshirani, Kent Wallén, Louise Robinson-Lay
"Getting faculty to embrace open education resources takes more than directing them to a good search platform. In this post I suggest a two-pronged strategy to help faculty embrace 'openness'."
Via Andreas Link
Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono is a bona fide genius. The author, inventor, Rhodes scholar and Nobel prize-nominated economist graduated from college at age 15.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
By Kent LEWIS There are a host of issues created by meaningless metrics, which include but are not limited to: wasting time, wasting money, and making bad decisions based on inaccurate, incomplete, or incomprehensible data. More depressing than being easily gamed by humans is the fact that Klout scores have been vulnerable to manipulation by robots and related tools. As such, it's dangerous when companies use it to make decisions, from hiring to assessing the "influence" of fans and rewarding (or ignoring) them accordingly. The fix: Take Klout with grain of salt and a shot of tequila. To get the most value from Klout, focus on trending your score and benchmarking against competitors. Read more, a MUST: http://www.imediaconnection.com/article_full.aspx?id=33132
Via Gust MEES
Are you ready for the Part 5 of the list of eLearning professionals that use Twitter? Every Follow Friday we are following professionals invo...
Via Christopher Pappas
When is an academic not an academic?
Via dirkvl
If you’re an educator, surely you know that technology has and will continue to have an incredible impact on learning.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
Another new study shows the disproportionate value of the best bosses; how will organizations respond?
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