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Rescooped by Ken Morrison from Higher Education in the Future onto An Eye on New Media |
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Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one its campuses--a move that spells the end of higher education as we know it.
The author did a great job of explaining the systematic steps that will change due to this big decision. This is a valuable read.
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Today I learned about Ngram Viewer by Google. Google has been rapidly digitizing books. They want to organize all of the worlds information. By doing this, they are able to chart word usage through the history of the printed word. Ngram allows you plot a graph with the history of words. In this simple example, I chose the compare the words curation (blue) vs curate (red)
After looking at the chart, you may be trying to recall what happenened in the second century of the 1800s? Here's some non-academic help: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090211144907AATu5Ux
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Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record. Screenr’s web-based screen recorder makes it a breeze to create and share your screencasts around the web. Just click the record button, capture your screen & voice, and share the link. Delete the scoop?
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Facebook's Timeline and the revamped Social Graph will profoundly change how users interact with the wider web. Here are some implications for brands that all marketers should note. Delete the scoop?
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I use this tool often. It helps my students and me to focus on what is important.
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. Delete the scoop?
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"If only finding focus were so simple. With a tidal wave of information coming at us daily, focus is rapidly becoming the scarcest commodity of the 21st century. With this in mind, I’ve rounded up a handful of the best apps for fighting back against the constant distractions of our digital lives." Via Howard Rheingold Delete the scoop?
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Some fearless predictions about California's online initiative and what it all means for higher ed by Gregory Ferenstein
In the UK, we probably need to end futher education as we know it, or at least build significantly on the current system!