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Week one: just in time for graduation season, we're asking our student network for tips to enduring the move back to the nest. With student debt skyrocketing and uncertain job prospects, more and more college graduates are moving home after graduation. A recent Pew report found that 39% of adults ages 18 to 34 say they either are living or have lived with their parents in recent years. The share of Americans living in multigenerational households is at its highest level since the 1950s. Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/may/15/postgrad-survival-guide-week-one
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Need to create online assessments for a flipped classroom or for a blended learning environment? Here are 26 tools to get you started.
While Facebook offers a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends and family, as with any social network, there is potential for people you'd rather not be in touch with to contact you. If this happens to you on Facebook, you can easily "block" someone. We've taken a look at this process, how to do it and what it actually means once you've done it. Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/05/01/how-to-facebook-block/
Most academics look down on the open source encyclopedia, but does it really hinder students' studies? Despite Wikipedia's drawbacks, students will continue to take advantage of the resource – and the default response of academics to simply advise against using the site is unlikely to have much effect. Lancaster lecturer Dr Catherine Easton says students must develop an ability to analyse the nature of the source material within Wikipedia, adding that the educator should ensure there is "a strong, continuing focus on the need to support academic work with references to acceptable scholarly sources". Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/may/13/should-university-students-use-wikipedia
Is graduation so close, yet so far away? Add some laughter to your procrastination with these comics from Toothpaste For Dinner.
NOW AVAILABLE: Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning:
Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice
Rory McGreal, Wanjira Kinuthia and Stewart Marshall, Eds. May 2013
Published jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, Canada (UNESCO/COL Chair in OER) as CC-BY-SA and freely available to all:www.col.org/psOERIRP. Available in PDF and epub formats. This book is one in a series of OER resources published by COL. It describes the OER movement in detail, providing readers with insight into OER's significant benefits, its theory and practice, and its achievements and challenges. The 16 chapters, written by some of the leading international experts on the subject, are organised into four parts by theme: OER in AcademiaOER in Practice:Diffusion of OERProducing, Sharing and Using OER Instructional designers, curriculum developers, educational technologists, teachers, researchers, students, others involved in creating, studying or using OER: all will find this timely resource informative and inspiring.
Is your iPad getting slow? Check out these 7 tricks to speed up your iPad. This post delivers long-term results, and it explains what does NOT work as well.
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Do you have students with disabilities or special needs? Then you may need an assistive technology: a technology used by an individual with a disability to perform a function that might otherwise be difficult or impossible. Samantha Thomas, a student, future librarian, and educator at Kutztown University, created this handy collection of assistive technologies that you may find helpful. Some are commonly used with special needs individuals, such as augmentative & alternative communication apps like My Pictures Talk, Look2Learn, and iTalk. Others are general consumer apps, such as Evernote, Google Earth, and Audacity. Listed alongside each app is her assessment of its value as an assistive technology. Read more at: http://www.teachthought.com/technology/34-assistive-technology-apps-from-edshelf/
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"IJEDICT Weekly News", by Stewart Marshall: an online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about ICT for education and development. Read and subscribe free at: http://paper.li/f-1325685118
Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency...
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"IJEDICT Weekly News", by Stewart Marshall: A free, online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about education and development using ICT. Read and subscribe free at: http://paper.li/f-1325685118
via Edutopia "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought or an event." -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consul... “These lesson planning supplemental tools profiled by Lisa Michelle Dabbs in the following Edutopia article are invaluable. I'm hoping these will be useful to all you creative and forward-thinking educators out there with us!”
Read more at: http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/04/15/five-free-web-2-0-tools-to-support-lesson-planning/
These days, Twitter is a powerhouse for marketing, communication, business, and even education, letting people from around the world work together, share ideas, and gain exposure. It has become a staple at many online colleges and campuses as well, leaving many academics wondering just how and if they should be using Twitter both in the classroom and in their professional lives. So we’ve revised our our original 2009 list to get you started or up to date. Whether you’re an academic or just interested in building your Twitter profile, keep reading to learn some tips and tricks that can help you take the first steps towards using Twitter for coursework, research, building a professional network, and beyond. Read more at: http://edudemic.com/2012/04/100-ways-to-use-twitter-in-education-by-degree-of-difficulty/
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Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
See video at: http://youtu.be/wX78iKhInsc
With the rapid changes and increase in knowledge, continuing education (CE) is necessary for every profession. Taking nursing continuing education online is a useful way for nurses to stay up-to-date in their profession whilst continuing with their employment. Find out more about online nursing continuing education, what's involved in the programs, where you can take them, the improved career prospects, and more ... Read more at: http://onlineanddistancelearning.com/online-nursing-continuing-education
Graduation season is upon us, and that means college graduates everywhere are preparing to enter "the real world." But chances are your liberal arts degree, as hard-earned and valuable as it is, doesn't equip you with every digital skill you need. We've put together a short list of fundamental skills that every college graduate should possess, from simply branding yourself online to learning basic coding. They're guaranteed to increase your overall digital know-how, and you can learn them all on your own. Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/05/06/digital-skills-college/
Education legend Sir Ken Robinson picked the talks he loves — all full of insight, bright ideas and, of course, creativity.
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An online adult education masters degree offers plenty of career options in teaching and training. The programs are based on adult learning philosophy, known asandragogy. In andragogy, learners are assumed to be self-motivated, self-directed, and have accumulated life experiences that need to be accounted for in course design and delivery. This page provides information on what is studied and where you can study it. Read more at: http://onlineanddistancelearning.com/adult-education-masters
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