Buried in the public responses to the news about MOOC (Massively Open Online Courses) and OER initiatives from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Penn, Princeton and others is a deceptively important assumpti... Via Keith Hampson PhD 
A presentation about the changing scholarly communication and scholarly content landscape in universities in a digitally-mediated age. Via antonella esposito 
Use of VoiceThread - great tool. 
Veteran Education Week reporters Catherine Gewertz and Erik Robelen bring you news and analysis of issues at the core of classroom learning. 
Steps Toward a Disruptive Innovation Approach to Understanding and Improving Higher Education Outcomes
The cost of college has skyrocketed during the last two decades, rising by 429 percent, a rate that’s even higher than the rate for health care. To cover these costs students have borrowed ever-larger amounts resulting in an average debt at graduation now exceeding $27,000. Yet only 50 percent of students pursuing a bachelor’s degree—and 21 percent of those pursuing an associate’s degree—complete their college programs.
Clearly, the great challenge facing higher education today is to contain costs while at the same time improving outcomes—in short, to increase productivity. Via Shannon D. Smith 
When Daniel J. Cohen went to work at George Mason University in 2001, its Center for History and New Media boasted a name and little else. Run from the office of its founder, Roy Rosenzweig, the center soon graduated to a modular trailer jokingly called "the van in the parking lot with the fiber-optic line running into it." Raccoons took refuge beneath it.
Today the center is a well-oiled machine with more than 100 Web projects, which reach 16 million people. Its staff works in an office suite that feels like a dot-com, Nintendo station included. And Mr. Cohen's specialty of digital humanities—thinking about how technology can advance scholarship in fields like history—is ascendant, with popular-press write-ups and a growing presence at major academic conferences. Via Shannon D. Smith 
Despite Rick Santorum’s arguments, research indicates that attending college doesn’t make students more liberal or less religious. Via Keith Hampson PhD 
BISG has learned how to pack enriched expert presentations into a 3-and-a-half-hour session that provides useful perspectives, allows for productive networking and a savory luncheon, and for the rest of the day to catch up on business. Pitched... Via Keith Hampson PhD 
Google Moderator allows you to create a series about anything that you are interested in discussing and open it up for people to submit questions, ideas, or suggestions. These are called submissions. Anyone can come to the site and submit a question, idea, or vote, and anyone can vote. Google Moderator shows you a question in the box with the blue background. This is called the Featured Question. Via Patty Ball |
Competition, we are constantly told, encourages individuals, institutions and companies to take the risks necessary for innovation and efficiency. Via Keith Hampson PhD 
TenTouch - the ultimate user experience provider, intuitive user interface and emotionally-binding content... 
A review of the research on active learning compiled for physiology faculty contains five “key findings” that author Joel Michael maintains ought “to be incorporated [into] our thinking as we make decisions about teaching physiology [I would say,... 
Fantastic way of sharing and commenting on text. 
Via Andreas Link 
…if we take a quick look at the research, and contrary to all the “folk wisdom” that students just want “easy exams”, all they really want is: *Unambiguous expectations…because they value, and expect, transparency in the way they will be assessed *Authentic tasks…because they value assessment that they perceive as “real” *Choice and flexibility…because they value the opportunity to showcase their particular talents in the best light" Via Anne Whaits 
Schoology Announces $1 Million Investment from For-Profit Education Company in Malaysia That Uses Its Collaborative Learning Platform Via Keith Hampson PhD |
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