a successful transition from high school to postsecondary education and career-training programs.

regularly use data to continuously improve the supports, instruction, and learning students experience.

real-time assessments for gauging student progress

He would provide all of the upfront capital. He’d do the digital marketing and hire course designers and produce the videos of lectures and the software that allowed students and faculty to interact live online, with worldwide 24/7 support. In return, the colleges had to give him 60 percent of the tuition. This was still a good deal for them, since 40 percent of something was better than 100 percent of the nothing they had before.

At some for-profit schools, almost 90 percent of revenues came from federal funds.

What this means is that an innovation that should have been used to address inequality is serving to fuel it.

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LTI Launch URL as submission

content item selection

Requires heavy usage of Canvas specific API’s, so is not interoperable

Canvas submissions API.

(optional) Using the LTI Outcomes service, the tool can also return a piece of plain text, a basic URL, or even an LTI Launch URL. This will be attached to a student submission object in Canvas, and it’ll be visible on the student submission page and in Speedgrader

totransform the system of scholarly communication from one that remains closedand unaffordable,to one that is more open, fair, transparent, and sustainable

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Cohen eating fried chicken (even though it was 9 a.m.)

Annotation Profile Follow learners as they bookmark content, highlight selected text, and tag digital resources. Analyze annotations to better assess learner engagement, comprehension and satisfaction with the materials assigned.

teaching strategies can change how students read.

An algorithm grades the “thoughtfulness” of their annotations and compares their reading habits to behaviors that predict classroom success.

from an Eastern university

the internet. 

compliance

the digital age.

not as capable

who retired

“The main idea in a text is not on the page,”

4. To build the wire panels, sandwich 5-by-4-foot sections of galvanized-steel wire between 1x3 cedar, screwing through the front of the frame into the back.

Example (Before) A direct link to an article in Project Muse before the proxy URL has been added: https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/demography/v047/47.4.groen.pdf Example (After) A direct link to an article in Project Muse after the proxy URL has been added: http://eztncc.vccs.edu:2048/login?url=https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/demography/v047/47.4.groen.pdf 

Linking to the article also allows the Library to track use and obtain data about the importance of a particular journal to the campus.  

While there may be good reason to upload articles to the LMS, it is important to consider that doing so may mean that your students do not have the most recent version of the article. It is not unusual for publishers to make corrections or changes, such as adding supplementary material, to articles after initial publication.

The libraries recommend that you link articles from the library databases to your course in lieu of making the pdfs available.

Article content must reside on the EBSCOhost servers due to licensing restrictions.

naturally occurring

digital sociology?

annotations give the instructor “a sense of what students found interesting or confusing in the assigned texts ahead of the classroom discussions.”

The majority of for-profit colleges are small,

themission of UC

“They’ve created a blueprint for how to break a big deal in the right way,” she said.

The history department, for example, added a digital tool that helped students visualize historical events and then surveyed them on their experiences using it.

Individual departments from journalism to French and Italian were making and assessing changes to their curricula, aided by Project 2021 money and staff.

the challenges of focusing a public research university on undergraduate reform — the research budget and research agenda are top priorities. 

You were beginning to gather that there were other symbols mixed with the words that might be part of a sentence, and that the different parts of what made a full-thought statement (your feeling about what a sentence is) were not just laid out end to end as you expected.

He also mentioned a recently developed computer process that could go back over a record of the human actions involved in establishing a given argument structure and do a creditable job of picking out the steps which contributed the most to the final picture—and also some of those that contributed least.

have given to me a power to participate in more sophisticated processes that capitalize more fully upon the computer's capability

teaching machines that provided continuous participation and reinforcement.

a specialist

Now, as part of my regular practice, I spend about five minutes out of each hour exercising with this package. This almost always reveals things to me that change at least the slant of my approach during the next hour, and often stimulates a relatively significant change in my short-range plans.

Then we added more features to the program, in which the computer occasionally interrupts the human's activity and displays some questions to be answered.

ow the human made use of that time.

With the human contributing to a process, we find more and more as the process becomes complex that the value of the human's contribution depends upon how much freedom he is given to be disorderly in his course of action.

we provide him as much help as possible in making a plan of action. Then we give him as much help as we can in carrying it out. But we also have to allow him to change his mind at almost any point, and to want to modify his plans.

formal and precise

You can see there that these skills are easy to learn in the context of what the human has to learn anyway about using the tools, and that they provide for much greater flexibility in finding convenient ways to use the tools to help shape materials.

There was a slight pause while Joe apparently was reflecting upon something. He started to speak, thought differently of it, and turned to flash something on a screen.

We have developed quite a few concepts and methods for using the computer system to help us plan and supervise sophisticated courses of action, to monitor and evaluate what we do, and to use this information as direct feedback for modifying our planning techniques in the future.

those words were automatically saved for a brief period in case he wanted to call them back

where precise use of special terms really pays off, where the human just couldn't be that precise by depending upon his unaided memory for definitions and 'standards,' and where using dictionary and reference-book lookup in the normal fashion would be so distracting and time-consuming that the task execution would break down.

Which segments of text are being highlighted?

What types of annotations are being created?

Who is posting most often? Which posts create the most replies?

Session Profile

Does overall time spent reading correlate with assessment scores? Are particular viewing patterns/habits predictive of student success? What are the average viewing patterns of students? Do they differ between courses, course sections, instructors, or student demographics?

7. Team Cooperation

It is rather amazing how much superfluous verbiage is contained in those papers merely to try to make up for the pitifully sparse possibilities available for symbol structuring in printed text."

Well, when you ever get handy at roaming over the type of symbol structure which we have been showing here, and you turn for this purpose to another person's work that is structured in this way, you will find a terrific difference there in the ease of gaining comprehension as to what he has done and why he has done it, and of isolating what you want to use and making sure of the conditions under which you can use it.

something like footnotes

You are quite elated by this freedom to juggle the record of your thoughts, and by the way this freedom allows you to work them into shape

Your ideas begin to take shape, and you can continually re-work the existing set of statements to keep representing the state of your "concept structure."

You don't know. He's a nice enough guy, but he sure gets preachy.

demonstrated how he could request that each instance of the use of a given term be changed to a newly designated term

readjust margins

The text would all still look as neat as if freshly retyped

Joe could direct the computer to move that string from where it was to insert it at a new point which his light pen designated

He showed you how he could single out a group of words (called the "object symbol string," or simply "object string") and define an abbreviation term, composed of any string of symbols he might choose, that became associated with the object string in computer storage. At any later time (until he chose to discard that particular abbreviation from his working vocabulary) the typing of the abbreviation term would call forth automatically the "printing" on the display of the entire object string.

He showed you how he could call up the dictionary definition to any word he had typed in, with but a few quick flicks on the keyset. Synonyms or antonyms could just as easily be brought forth.

This didn't impress you very much

For example, select a given capability, at any level in the hierarchy, and ask yourself if it can be usefully changed by any means that can be given consideration in the augmentation research contemplated. If it can, then it is not basic but it can be decomposed into an eventual set of basic capabilities.

out

If it were so very easy to look things up,

We fastened a pencil to a brick

The English language since Shakespeare has undergone no alteration comparable to the alteration in the cultural environment; if it had, Shakespeare would no longer be accessible to us.

Where a complex machine represents the principal artifact with which a human being cooperates, the term "man-machine interface" has been used for some years to represent the boundary across which energy is exchanged between the two domains. However, the "man-artifact interface" has existed for centuries, ever since humans began using artifacts and executing composite processes.

amplifier."

Even so apparently minor an advance could yield total changes in an individual's repertoire hierarchy that would represent a great increase in over-all effectiveness

You can integrate your new ideas more easily, and thus harness your creativity more continuously, if you can quickly and flexibly change your working record.

It would be practical for you to accommodate more complexity in the trails of thought you might build in search of the path that suits your needs.

This writing machine would permit you to use a new process of composing text.

Let us consider an augmented architect at work.

"Guess what? All that up-and-down with the cylinders, all firing at exactly the right millisecond, and then the gears and contraptions to turn the up-and-down into round-and-round? Gone. Oil changes? Gone. You have a battery, you have electric motors directly attached to wheels, you have absurd amounts of torque, and very few moving parts to wear out. The power goes straight to the wheels. All that internal combustion stuff did a great job for the last 100 years, but we can propel our wheeled vehicles with more efficiency and less complexity now."

If you want to get a lot of money from VCs, it helps a lot to look like a platform company (although I get the sense that's beginning to change in the education investment space).

This value proposition is a far cry from robot tutors in the sky that can semi-read your mind. It's less sexy, more grounded, and more strategic.

Operational excellence is the new hotness

I never got the sense that there were many True Believers in adaptive learning as a magic bullet.

In fact, the OER True Believers club may now be larger than the learning analytics club.

We are not seeing the same level of investment in the professional development of faculty as teachers and course designers. And yet, skilled teachers seem to be a critical success factor for personalized learning.

But as we learned from a great Disney movie, a magic wand wielded by a sorcerer’s apprentice generally does not produce the intended results.

Even great software is not magic. If you want magic in the classroom, you need a great teacher. At its best, the software gives the magician a wand to work with.

prolonged interaction between the instructor and the students

personalized learning products will be used not to improve student learning, but as cheaper and “good enough” replacements for faculty labor.

Advancing Digital Equity

There was a child

Visible, invisible,

I think that this dimension is especially interesting, as evaluation is a fundamental part of any traditional education system. At this point, I simply want to emphasise that the availability of this kind of data will definitely be noticed, especially considering that social reading and online annotations have made their move into the learning and teaching sector.

The graph in figure 2 is cropped at day 1, as there was a tiny fraction of comments created after the day of the class. Out of the 1286 comments only 6 were created after the day of the lecture.

the wind-bird

    Like any of us

Select Supports deep linking to allow instructors and course builders to launch the LTI tool and add content from the tool provider, rather than adding content through the Blackboard Learn interface. If the tool provider is configured so that the instructor can select multiple pieces of content in a single import, this tool can save time and simplify the workflow.

Non-student tools are available for instructors and course builders. These tools appear in the Course Management section of an Original course and in the Books & Tools menu of an Ultra course.

In my work, I have strayed far from a background that includes a MA in English Literature and teaching K-12 students written composition. I’ve focused on teaching or analyzing written communication or networked online discourse in the higher education, especially at the graduate level, for the past 16 years or so. But this work, annotating in the open not just for an individual, the teacher who grades the assignment, hits close to my heart in teaching K-CEO learners to write for an audience.

it is the oppressive and symbolically violent use of the essentials of our discipline—words, rhetoric, and modes of communica-tion—that sticks to us most in the ongoing aftermath of the election

44 a year

that an instructor familiar with the platform might guide or encourage use of the question and answer feature.

turn this note into a question for the course instructor to answer.

instructor notes and highlights are automatically shared with students in Engage.

because of students' lack of awareness of these features.

In a typical semester, students read more in the first four weeks and less in later weeks

Fact-checkers in Brazil complained this month ahead of the election that most voters trust what their friends and family send them on WhatsApp over what they see on TV or in newspapers.

Teenage Instagram wellness communities are already transforming into mini Infowars-style snake oil empires.

Which means all of this — the trolls, the abuse, the fake news, the conspiracy videos, the data leaks, the propaganda — will eventually stop being a problem for people who can afford it.

While a far-right community is building in your country,

aided by algorithms recommending content that increases user watch time.

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The Text is not to be thought of as an object that can be computed

I cannot re-write them

a pleasure of consumption

the following are not argumentations but enunciations, 'touches', approaches that consent to remain metaphorical.

“personalization” has to have purpose. “It’s not just about ‘Is it made for me?’ The question is: What am I striving for?

At all-boys’ schools, when students stand shoulder to shoulder with their classmates and hear that they are called to greatness, they also internalize the absence of women from their position of privilege and power. Women are not part of the club. They are separate. They are for conquest; they are for dating; they are for marriage. Women are not peers. Some boys graduate and go on to unpack and unlearn these lessons. Others find new clubs with guarded access. They join fraternities. They go on to business schools and law firms and seek out institutions with disproportionately more men than women. Look at the gender breakdown of boardrooms everywhere. Look at the Supreme Court.

but the general message of the school was that we were already fully actualized as “Men for Others.”

The real internet is structured by myriad people with different aesthetics and different needs. Online course design decisions should reflect the instructor’s individuality in the same way that everyone else’s webpages do.

At that point, the well-trained online educators of the future will never accept the limitations of designing their courses entirely inside an LMS.

My graduate program did not prepare me to teach online, but graduate education will reflect reality when enough programs recognize the fact that online education is here to stay.

the LMS will eventually wither and die, because the alternatives are only going to get cheaper (if they aren’t free already), better and easier to use.

Resaca de la Palma

We still see a two-horse race for new implementations (LMS product switches) in higher education, largely shared between Canvas and D2L, but the second horse that is looking better than it used to still needs to make further adjustments and run faster.

One of their goals was to turn the product development process on its head and, drum roll, put the users first.

So one very rough estimate is that academic LMS market is worth approximately $2 billion per year.

as anecdotally there is not a big emphasis on LMS usage outside North American and Northern Europe.

So a better question is what is the size of the global academic LMS markets, combining K-12 and postsecondary?

Part of this change according to D2L exec interviews was that in the past it was easier to talk to CIOs, but now they are learning how to talk to faculty and end users.

Moodle and Sakai both lost market share of just under 1%, not enough to show up in the rounded numbers in the table but enough to show up in our underlying data.

The difference in Moodle's market share by institutions at 25% and by enrollments at 12% really shows how concentrated their usage is for smaller schools.

the market continues to be a two-horse race recently with Canvas by Instructure and Brightspace by D2L as the only two solutions with material gains in market share.

While each tool has differing ways in which it can be used in the classroom and with various Learning Management Systems (LMSs),

This, coupled with the fact that the market is not set up for students to purchase used e-texts, means that the annotation tools that are native to publisher platforms are often not a realistic option for the community college population.

Annotation tools provide an alternative to the image of the solitary student sitting in the library reading a text.

Current technology takes this a step further as modern annotation tools combine, in one platform, both the social sharing/dialogue and the ability to engage in ways beyond the text.

Basic skills courses are not the only place where scaffolding active reading practices should occur

students are not downloading texts in ePub format but, rather, as PDFs.

"Web Annotation Technologies for Learning,"

its arrogant sense of superiority, and its righteous justification for global dominance.

we do not err as a society when we innovate, but when we ignore what we disrupt or diminish while innovating

(Anne-Mette Nortvig and René B. Christiansen, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, September 2017)

Reagan described a four-credit course at the University of California at Davis on organizing demonstrations. "I figure that carrying a picket sign is sort of like, oh, a lot of things you pick up naturally," he said, "like learning how to swim by falling off the end of a dock."

a university’s making its own values clear.

The most important principle to uphold is the distinction between hearing someone and honoring someone.

odious presidency

motto of Britain’s Royal Society, the world’s oldest national scientific institution — nullius in verba, Latin for "take no one’s word for it."

replication efforts as "slapstick" psychology.

"It’s not that I ever did him anything wrong. I just think he was fishing around for some way to make him a more notable figure," Zimbardo said of Blum in an interview. "And he hit on this." It was 1971. Philip G. Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University, had just earned tenure, and he had completed a study he wanted the world to know about.

Iwillhighlighthowrecentadvancesinadaptivelearning,learninganalytics,andsomepedagogiesclaimingtoempowerlearnerssometimesdotheopposite,orfallshortofachievingtheirobjective.

literary Facebook,

auto-provision them into, e.g. private groups allocated for use by courses or sections.

users who aren't restricted to 3rd-party namespaces

their WordPress identities,

per-instance-of-plugin basis

If step 1

use a user's university credentials to create and provision these accounts.

whether we can configure the hypothesis plugin for WordPress to implement a ‘third-party account’ using the reference implementation at https://github.com/hypothesis/publisher-account-test-site. If we’re successful with this, this may perhaps allow us to automatically create Hypothesis accounts when new Pressbooks accounts are created?

We’re running an instance of Pressbooks with the hypothesis plugin installed and networked activated. We want to have the option of giving users one login to gain access to both Pressbooks and Hypothesis (when the hypothesis plugin is installed and activated for a book).

Blueprint

arguments scholars make about The Making of Americans are based on limited knowledge of the text’s underlying structure because the underlying patterns are difficult to discern with close reading.

The first part introduces what Marjorie Perloff calls “differential reading,” which positions close and distant reading practices as both subjective and objective methodologies.

1965

[edit] The choice tag is used to represent sections of text which might be encoded or tagged in more than one possible way. In the following example, based on one in the standard, choice is used twice, once to indicate an original and a corrected year and once to indicate an original and regularised spelling.[10]

Player A's role is to trick the interrogator into making the wrong decision, while player B attempts to assist the interrogator in making the right one.