"The wholesale replacement of community college curriculums with online courses might not be the best idea, according to new research from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College."
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In this free eBook from The eLearning Guild, experts provide 129 tips for educators and designers who want to make the best use of these technologies.
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Watch Neil Gaiman's keynote at The Digital Minds Conference 2013, QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London - 14th April 2013.
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" A bill is dead to create a fourth college system in California to award credit and degrees to students but offer no courses, according to the head of the state Assembly's higher education committee. The bill would have created the "New University of California," which would have issued credit and degrees to anyone capable of passing certain exams. The bill received criticism and news media attention even though it had an uphill battle to become law: its sponsor is Assemblyman Scott Wilk, a rookie Republican lawmaker in a Democratic-majority legislature..." 
khodge55's comment,
April 25, 2:21 PM
Though they do have a lot of people, I feel as though they have many large colleges that could accommodate the population. I definitely agree that the cost of making another college would be outrageous.
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April 26, 9:52 PM
I think that this college is just to have the kids pass exams is odd too. I agree that we don't have the money right now and that there are other colleges as well they may attend.
Lauren Timm's comment,
April 28, 3:48 PM
California is big, why not give them another college. If people are willing to pay for it, there should be no problem in establishing a new one.
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Press releases from COU, MTCU - the government and universities. "Ontario universities are joining forces to expand online learning for students in the province and beyond, and are using technology to meet the growing demand for courses and programs delivered outside the traditional classroom setting or courses that blend both traditional and electronic delivery. Delete the scoop?
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You never know how someone will react when you suggest that they junk their title and replace it with a new one that leads to a different focus of work—not to mention the confusion this could cause across the faculty, or the possible political... Delete the scoop?
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Three questions with the project's executive director "The idea behind the Digital Public Library of America is fairly simple actually -- it is the attempt, really a large-scale attempt, to knit together America's archives, libraries, and museums, which have a tremendous amount of content -- all forms of human expression, from images and photographs, to artwork, to published material and unpublished material, like archival and special collections. We want to bring that all together in one place..." Delete the scoop?
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In The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, Marina Gorbis argues we are moving away from the depersonalized world of institutional production toward a new economy built on social connections and rewards--a process she... Delete the scoop?
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The rapid embrace of smartphones by teenagers will likely have significant and lasting repercussions for the web, the browser, the PC - and all that these touch.
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Want to know what university is really about? UPEI is launching Experience U (XPU)—a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for free, delivered on Facebook, and open to anyone—hopeful new students, supportive parents, high school teachers, or just interested observers who are eager to engage and connect with some of the key concepts that make the university experience unique. XPU provides a platform for students to chat with their peers and faculty members, get answers to their questions, meet great people, and make connections before classes even begin. XPU is a free, five-week course, organized by current UPEI students and begins on Thursday, April 25. Students can enroll at any time between April 25–May 30. Topics include “what’s a student,” “what’s a syllabus,” “what’s research,” “how do I succeed at university,” and “what’s a professor”?.." Delete the scoop?
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In the near future of search, you won't be looking for Internet content anymore - it will be looking for you. Delete the scoop?
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Explore how the principles behind open source--collaboration, transparency, and rapid prototyping--are proven catalysts for innovation. Delete the scoop?
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The Learning in the Workplace Survey has now been taken by over 600 people, and although it is still open if you want to cast your vote, I am going to release some interim findings here today as th...
"Study shows … that company training/e-learning is the lowest rated way to learn at work , andthat workers find other (self-organised and self-managed) ways of learning at work far more valuable – with team collaboration being the highest rated.Delete the scoop?
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In all the discussion about learning management systems, open educational resources (OERs), massive open online courses (MOOCs), and the benefits and challenges of online learning, perhaps the most important issues concern how technology is changing the way we teach, and - more importantly - the way students learn. For want of a better term, we call this “pedagogy.” What is clear is that major changes in the way we teach post-secondary students are being triggered by online learning and the new technologies that increase flexibility in, and access to, post-secondary education. As a first step in an exploration of what these pedagogical changes are and their implications for students, faculty, staff, and institutions, we begin here by: Taking a look at some key developments in online learning and how they impact our understanding of pedagogy;Illustrating these developments through highlighting innovations in Ontario colleges and universities from the Pockets of Innovations series on the Ontario Online Learning Portal for Faculty & Instructors and offering links to many more; andRaising some questions about changes in pedagogy and in student learning.....Delete the scoop?
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" Last month the U.S. Education Department sent a message to colleges: Financial aid may be awarded based on students’ mastery of “competencies” rather than their accumulation of credits. That has major ramifications for institutions hoping to create new education models that don’t revolve around the amount of time that students spend in class. Now one of those models has cleared a major hurdle. The Education Department has approved the eligibility of Southern New Hampshire University to receive federal financial aid for students enrolled in a new, self-paced online program called College for America, the private, nonprofit university has announced..." Delete the scoop?
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Software to detect student plagiarism is faced with renewed criticism from the faculty members who may confront more plagiarism than do most of their colleagues – college writing professors. Members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication passed a resolution at their annual convention last month to denounce plagiarism detection services, including products like Turnitin.
"... Anson also complained about Turnitin’s practice of building its database by including submitted student papers. The company says it has “300+ million archived student papers” to aid its plagiarism detection efforts. The practice has been the subject of unsuccessful litigation against the company. “Talk about taking work without attribution – they are taking students’ work without compensation. So it’s a strange, underhanded violation of intellectual property rights on behalf of students,” Anson said." 
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Online certificate programs are sensible, effective solutions that also increasingly lead to future graduate degrees. Delete the scoop?
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Should parents worry if pre-school children love fiddling with their smart phone? Recent research suggests touch screens suit the way children interact with the world and could benefit learning. Delete the scoop?
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"The major draws for the occasional online course are flexibility and convenience, according to the students interviewed for the study. Some also said the courses allowed them to use their learning time more efficiently."
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/26/online-courses-are-second-choice-community-college-students-some-subject-areas#ixzz2RriMCYaM ;
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