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Zeit Online is having some of us write letters to a child just born, to be read in the year 2040. After reviewing David Weinberger’s Too Big to Know, they asked me to write about wisdom. I wrote about media. It being a letter to a German child, I of course wrote about Gutenberg, too. Here’s the German translation.
So much for relying on your FM dial and antenna's reception. Today, NPR launched the NRP Music app for the iPad, a new platform that gives listeners access to streaming content, first-listen albums, and live concerts. Via Jim Lerman
Please take the 5:31 to watch the short clip above from a Will Richardson talk at Proctor Academy. I think it is imperative that all school communities spend some significant time reflecting upon their purpose and whether or not the things they are doing in their classrooms are still adequately preparing students for the world outside of their school’s walls.
We have certainly made some strides at Burlington High providing some of the technological resources that will assist us in this work, but we need to continue to assess our work againstmodern standards like the ones developed by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Do our students meet the criteria for what it means to literate in the year 2012? Via Jim Lerman
With all of the hype and craziness this lens has been causing since the Los Angeles workshop I decided to start writing a rolling review for the SLR Magic Hyperprime 50 T0.95 LM lens. Basically this means I will be adding to this review, right here on this page instead of making posts every day about it. As I get new images and new thoughts I will add them here. Almost like a diary of my use with the lens over the next few months as I put it through its paces before its official release.
A major international conference was held in Lund in December on internationalisation of higher education, an activity that is increasing rapidly around the world. The conference was organised by the OECD, the Association of Nordic University Rectors Conferences NUS and the Nordic Association of University Administrators NUAS together with Lund University. The increased internationalisation of higher education has been a mixed blessing, it emerged: on the one hand, internationalisation is now an activity that is taken for granted, on the other hand, competition and commercialisation are becoming stronger motivational factors at the expense of academic values. Topics of discussion at the conference included how the work should be organised, new evaluation tools that are being developed and what internationalisation means for learning from the perspective of students and lecturers. Via Vangelis Tsiligiris
European higher education institutions are facing in these last years a number of relevant political and social changes that have asked for more transparency, accountability, comparability and legitimacy of degrees. In light of these new challenges, the great majority of universities have responded by implementing quality assurance processes, either through evaluation or through accreditation. This book collects the evaluation and accreditation experiences gathered by higher education institutions in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and Sweden. It provides a synthetic picture of the present state of quality assurance practices in Europe and offers a few lessons for a future European dimension of quality assurance. Via Vangelis Tsiligiris
Here's a short video highlighting what flexible classroom furniture might look like in schools and universities.
Learning Matters convenes a discussion on the effectiveness of online learning (K-12, higher education) as relates to public education.
This week, the International Society for Technology in Education conference is being held in Philadelphia. For people interested in instructional technology and integration, the ISTE conference i... Via Mats Larsnäs
If you brought a teacher back from 50 years ago and put her in a university classroom today she would be able to pick up exactly where she left off. The classroom experience has barely changed. The main difference she would notice is that in the classrooms with the most sleeping students, something called PowerPoint is being used as a sedative. This is a pretty sad state of affairs, especially considering the fact that the state of the art in pedagogy tells us that the current system is just about the least effective way to teach. Walking into a lecture hall today is like walking into a newsroom that still uses typewriters.
QR codes seemed to present a world of opportunity and potential. But after using them for a length of time, I shifted my perspective. Via Mats Larsnäs
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Tegile Systems, has released its new Zebi hybrid storage arrays. They support both SAN and NAS environments and can deduplicate cached data and compress data on the fly.
A number of OER university thought leaders will open the University of Leicester series of webinars for Open Education Week. Register your seat today: http://goo.gl/ITeyy
Further Information
On 6th and 7th March 2012, the University of Leicester will be running a series of three webinars entitled "Enabling universal access to higher education via openness and collaboration?" to celebrate Open Education Week.
Confirmed speakers include Jim Taylor (University of Southern Queensland), Grainne Conole (University of Leicester), George Siemens (Athabasca University), Martin Weller and Patrick McAndrew (Open University UK), Sandra Wills (Wollongong University), Vasi Doncheva (Northtec Polytechnic) and Anthony Camilleri (EFQUEL and OERtest). The series is jointly hosted by the TOUCANS and ELKS projects at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, in partnership with the Open University's SCORE Programme and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
For more information and registration, please go to http://toucansproject.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/webinars/.
To go straight to registration, please see http://goo.gl/ITeyy . Via Andreas Link, Alastair Creelman
Apple’s recent release of free software to build e-textbooks has brought attention to custom publishing of academic materials. But Apple’s software, called iBooks Author, lacks easy tools for multiple authors to collaborate on a joint textbook project. Since most books aren’t written in isolation, two new publishing platforms seek to make that group collaboration easier.
A number of OER university thought leaders will open the University of Leicester series of webinars for Open Education Week. Register your seat today: http://goo.gl/ITeyy
Further Information
On 6th and 7th March 2012, the University of Leicester will be running a series of three webinars entitled "Enabling universal access to higher education via openness and collaboration?" to celebrate Open Education Week.
Confirmed speakers include Jim Taylor (University of Southern Queensland), Grainne Conole (University of Leicester), George Siemens (Athabasca University), Martin Weller and Patrick McAndrew (Open University UK), Sandra Wills (Wollongong University), Vasi Doncheva (Northtec Polytechnic) and Anthony Camilleri (EFQUEL and OERtest). The series is jointly hosted by the TOUCANS and ELKS projects at the Beyond Distance Research Alliance, in partnership with the Open University's SCORE Programme and the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
For more information and registration, please go to http://toucansproject.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/webinars/.
To go straight to registration, please see http://goo.gl/ITeyy . Via Andreas Link
Jill Tiefenthaler’s class at Colorado College on the economics of higher education is a chance for students to develop not only a better understanding of some of the major issues confronting higher education, but also to learn a little bit more about their own institution.
To better organise the mass of information in higher education, HESA is undertaking a project to redesign its data landscape...
Are you a fan of TEDTalks? Then you’re going to love TED Quotes, a new Allianz-sponsored service that offers “salient bits of TEDTalks, on everything from activism to storytelling, from chemistry to curiosity.”
“Everyone loves a good quote,” June Cohen, the executive producer of TED Media, said in a blog post post announcing the launch. “They challenge us. They change us. They make us think and make us laugh. They are — in their most compressed and contagious form — ideas.”
In addition to showcasing some of the best snippets from TED Talks, the new service also makes the quotes easily shareable to your social circles. You can view top-rated quotes, search by keyword and browse by topic. When you see a quote you like, you can share it to Facebook, Twitter or via email. “By making the ideas within a talk even more findable and shareable, we hope to spread ideas even farther,” says Cohen. Via Jim Lerman
There is a prevailing conception that students must learn facts and procedural knowledge BEFORE they can then engage in so-called...
OpenCourseWare (OCW) refers to academic course materials created by universities that are shared freely on the Internet as digital publications. The OCW movement in the U.S. was started by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now many other schools and companies have caught on. See more in this infographic! Via Andreas Link
This short and fun animation video by Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand explains the CC licenses. Via Ellen Kuipers, Andreas Link
The ORID (Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, Decisional) method is a form of a structured conversation led by a facilitator.
The method was developed by the Institute for Cultural Affairs as a means to analyse facts and feelings, to ask about implications and to make decisions intelligently. It is a means of escaping the morass of maniacal meetings. Via Dennis T OConnor, Dr. Richard NeSmith
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