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Making the move from our safe and trusted traditional literacy habits to newer digital skills can be quite a challenge, but as teachers I think we are really unlikely to be able to use technology and help our students use technology really effectively unless we are prepared to face this challenge. Technology needs to be more than part of the way we teach but it also has to be part of the way we ourselves continue to learn and part of our everyday professional practice. 
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This article is Part Two of a three-part series on the growth on online colleges.
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"I was there when it happened. And for the record: I did object. I was but a teaching assistant; the decision was not mine. The decision was to replace the pendulums and other demonstration gizmos in the undergraduate physics teaching laboratory with computers and software. To be sure, the change would be convenient: no more time-consuming preparation of experiments, no more lectures on how to make demonstrations work, no more disinclined planes or springs sprung too far. This was cutting-edge. The students would love it. Students like computers. And aren't computers the future? Don't we need to get with the times and prepare students for the information age?" Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Sal Khan, founder of the online educational non-profit Khan Academy, is fueling a debate over tech's growing influence on education while garnering the support of students and powerful friends. Via Costas Vasiliou
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William Lounsbury for The Chronicle"It's important that the research community improve perhaps as quickly as the cheating community is improving," says Neal Kingston, of the U. of Kansas, who organized a Conference on Statistical Detection of Potential Test Fraud.
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John Hennessy of Stanford and Salman Khan of Khan Academy talk to Walt Mossberg at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference about how technology might be used to make the college numbers add up... Via Mark Smithers
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Nowadays it's almost impossible to find any kind of a webpage or site that puts text before graphic appeal. There's a good reason for that. It has long been known that our responses to visuals are far more cognitively stimulating than they are when reading text. We like pictures, and pictures like us.
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Research on the Information Society, the Digital Divide and Information and Communication Technologies for development...
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This blog is about universal design, user experience design (UXD) emerging technologies, social media and accessibility. It is based on the belief that the internet and the rapid development of new and better technologies provide unprecedented opportunities for disabled and disadvantaged people. We must make the web accessible to all.
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Excessive specialization has created a culture of expertise that has distorted higher education and had a negative impact on faculty members, students and the broader society. Via Mark Smithers
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Digital tools cultivate engagement and encourage mastery by allowing for highly individualized instruction.
In a nutshell, the flipped classroom takes the content traditionally disseminated in the classroom, often in the form of lectures, and translates that information into online videos and other digital formats, letting students digest that content outside of the classroom. Class time is freed up to focus on inquiry, interaction and applying knowledge. In many cases, this means that what used to be classified as homework is now becoming class-work.
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Pace of change in higher education is getting faster, and will affect teaching, student evaluation, and access to knowledge...
Advancing digital technology is bringing major changes to higher education, after upending journalism, the music business, manufacturing and many other industries. In a few cases, this digital revolution means tens of thousands of students can sign up for one class taught by top professors. The pace of change in higher education is getting faster, and will affect teaching, student evaluation, and access to knowledge. Imagine a university class with 160,000 students sitting at computers all around the world, all learning from the same professors.
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"Students who use online learning can take in information faster than those who only take part in classroom-based sessions, new research has indicated. A study conducted by non-profit think tank Ithhaka S+R used two versions of a statistics course to compare the effectiveness of the two different forms of learning, Boston.com reports." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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The Social Timeline... possibilities exist for digital story telling, historical perspectives
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"Have you heard this one before? 'I’d love to use technology in my classroom, but it just takes up too much time. From finding technology to use, setting it up, installing it and teaching myself and my students how to use it, it eats away at the time I have to teach. I’ll just stick to the same books and worksheets that have worked for years.' Too many teachers avoid using technology in their classrooms because they believe it takes too much time. In reality, most technology is designed to save time." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
Kim Flintoff's comment,
June 6, 2012 9:59 PM
The same sort of protest is evident when suggesting the intorduction of studnet-centred approaches, problem-based, investigative, authentic or any other educational change. The change process does normally consume some time but in my experience that's recouped as the changes progress and normally you end up in a superior postion by the end of the usual time-frame. Like most things eductaional - if you know your content, know your technology and know your pedagogical positions then all the rest is easy.
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"In their haste to modernize their learning model, some organizations are dispensing with face-to-face delivery in favor of online courses. And I think it's a mistake. By migrating content from workbooks to Scorm packages, all they are doing is jumping from one formal mode of delivery to another, with a bunch of new problems thrown in. Yes, online distribution and auto-marking are wonderfully useful, but there is another way." Via EDTECH@UTRGV
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Also referred to as blended learning, hybrid learning is an educational approach where the traditional classroom is integrated with an online component. A web-based Learning Management System (LMS) contains curriculum and course materials, and ties the two learning environments (classroom + online) together. In a hybrid learning model, the teacher conducts lessons during scheduled class sessions and students are assigned independent study online. The student receives face-to-face instruction during class meetings, and then logs into the LMS for independent study (or virtual group collaboration) to continue their learning and to complete assignments.
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Are you an online student and want to learn ways to stay top of your online classes. Online degree programs give students the flexibility to take their classes anytime, anywhere. In order to staying on top of your online education, discipline, commitment, and organization are required. These are the basic traits that any online student must possess in order to get succeed. Online learning involves a dedicated time of independent study and in order to stand out in an online learning course it is very important to incorporate various time management practices into the day. Below are mentioned some of the best time management tips that can help you stay competitive in the online learning.
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What is the theory that underpins our moocs? If you’re even casually aware of what is happening in higher education, you’ve likely heard of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
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Teri Charrois from the School of Pharmacy used online debates to promote critical thinking with positive results.
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" Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal on teaching and technology that combines the strands of critical and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil uses of technology and digital media in education.
Memes are the New Canon
"Because the Internet is everything, it has always lacked coherence for me. More available than things in their entirety are blurbs about things, captions, dialogues about things; or more removed, dialogues about blurbs about things. I’m a nontraditional educator who was educated traditionally, so I tend to think about things in their entirety, and the relationships of coherence created between those things. I canonize, holding up certain works of literature as both cornerstones and harbingers of academic dialogue. The works of Shakespeare and Dickens converse with the works of Woolf and Hemingway and give them meaning. But a quote from Shakespeare tossed into the muddle of all the quotes from all the books in English loses its lucidity and relevance. And this is exactly what the internet does.
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Students today are surrounded by media: cell phones, smartphones, multiple televisions, MP3 players, movies, computers, video games, iPads, e-mail, and the Internet. Eight- to 18-year-olds spend an...
A case for Blended Learning
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eClassroom News...
Many assumptions and misconceptions around the flipped class concept are circulating in educational and popular media. This article will address, and hopefully put to rest, some of the confusion and draw a conclusion on why flipped learning is a sound educational technique.
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Can high-quality online learning really compete with classroom instruction at the college level? And if it can, what does that mean for students and educators?
On May 22, Ithaka S&R released "Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials," a study that helps validate the efficacy of online learning at the college level and points to some of its potential benefits. The full report is worth a look, but here are the basics: 605 students at six public universities were randomly assigned to take an introductory statistics course in either a traditional format or a hybrid format. The hybrid format combined machine-guided instruction--what the researchers refer to as ILO, or "Interactive Learning Online"--along with one hour of face-to-face instruction each week.
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Online learning is one of the most talked about and fastest growing sectors in higher education and corporate training today. The Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning is the premier global gathering covering this field. Tweet about the conference: #aln12 18th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning 'At A Crossroads: Online Education in a Complex World' October 10-12, 2012 Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort - Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Virtual attendance is only $109 (or $500 for multiseat institutional virtual attendance)
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