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  1. Feb 2018
    1. With sentiment analysis software, set for trial use later this semester in a classroom at the University of St. Thomas, in Minnesota, instructors don’t need to ask. Instead, they can glance at their computer screen at a particular point or stretch of time in the session and observe an aggregate of the emotions students are displaying on their faces: happiness, anger, contempt, disgust, fear, neutrality, sadness and surprise.

      Wha?

    1. The biggest reason in my mind would be domains provides an opportunity to dive deeper into the infrastructure and architecture that is increasingly shaping the information landscape. What’s more, I whole heartedly think having an understanding of how the web works, and how you can build your own spaces online outside of third-party controls is an important skill.

      How many students are using cPanel to deepen their understanding of web infrastructure beyond installing and administrating WordPress? Do we have any examples?

    1. Gee has twice served as president of The Ohio State University, from 1990-1997 and later from 2007 to July of 2013 when he was named President Emeritus. He was also president of Vanderbilt University (2000-2007), Brown University (1998-2000), the University of Colorado (1985-1990) and WVU (1981-1985; Jan.-Feb. 2014; and March 2014 and beyond). He also served as the dean of the WVU College of Law from 1979-1981.
    1. "Clear the deck," said Cheryl Rock, 40, an assistant professor of human nutrition at the University of Michigan, who opposes the elimination of mandatory retirement. "The old professors are holding back the university."
    1. The proportion of faculty rating costas importanthas remained steady,

      cost

    2. Opening the Textbook10There has also been an increase in the proportion of faculty reporting that materials being easy to find is important.It remains the third-most mentioned factor, ahead of two newly included factors.

      easy to find

    1. A convergence of factors is propelling OER. States have started to adopt policies redefining textbook materials and even mandating OER, particularly as the cost of replacing out-of-date textbooks has become more burdensome to America’s nearly 14,000 school districts. It’s hard to overlook the appeal of free, digital alternatives.
    1. Oregon is following in what is clearly a trend of state legislatures and executives acting to protect their citizens’ digital rights where the federal government has abdicated responsibility.
    1. In addition to the expertly curated OER content, Intellus Open Courses include a suite of support services, including learning management system integration, on-demand training and implementation support, instructor supplements, and customization tools. Instructors can access Intellus Learning to customize, reuse, remix, and redistribute their open course content. Licensing data is available for each content item so instructors know which open resources can be modified as well. Instructors can also leverage Intellus Learning's cornerstone engagement analytics at any time to optimize courses to meet learning objectives.

      who will be the first publisher to admit there's no money in content anymore...

    1. We have more than 100 years of research emphasizing that learning for life is about finding what is relevant and applicable in all the vast array of material covered and finding out how that helps one to understand oneself or the world.
    1. Windscribe works simultaneously on an unlimited number of devices, with unlimited bandwidth, and doesn’t keep a log of your activity. Get a one, three, or five year subscription on the Daily Dot Store starting at just $19. Better yet, get a lifetime subscription using promo code WINDSCRIBESD40 and pay only $69 (regularly $900).
    1. Despite the significant number of courses being taught online, institutions report that less than one-third (31%) of the courses taught by adjunct faculty members over the last 12 months have been fully online courses.
    1. that while our collective brains function similarly, the actual networks that invoke what we delineate as understandingand actual learning are highly variable (Sporns, 2011). For instance, research based on simple tasks such as tapping a single finger have shown the significant difference in how different brains process that exact motion (Meyer & Rose, 2002). Additional research continues to clarify how differently each person’s brain processes information. Defined as variability, these recognized differences point us toward designing more diversified opportunities for learning (Meyer, Rose, &Gordon, 2014). This variability comes to light when a teacher considers how to effectively engage and support learning for every learner. UDL is a framework that supports the design of a learning environment or classroom that both expects and accepts thevariability of every learner. In addition, the framework emphasizes context. How the student emotionally connects to the topic, the setting, the mode of delivery, the person delivering the information, and how other learners can alter that student’s acquisition of the information (Daley, Willett, & Fischer, 2014). Creating an environment where learners know they will be able to access and deliver information in a way that fits their momentary or constant needs allows them to approach learning in a more receptive state (Meyer, Rose, & Gordon, 2014). With access to the
    1. With statistical modeling, Samson said by the end of the third week of each semester he can predict which students are going to fail with 90 percent accuracy.
    1. My work can only be used by Turnitin to check for plagiarism. As I see no reason for it being my responsibility to help Turnitin get better at doing their job (by giving them the ability to recognise when somebody plagiarizes my work), I want Turnitin to delete my work as soon as the check has been done. If Turnitin relies on third parties to do the plagiarism check, then I would need a limitative list of these parties and the assurance that the above two conditions will also count for them.

      Seems reasonable!

    1. the goal is to avoid having the accommodations process as the first response to overcoming accessibility barriers for an individual using a product.

      About time.

    2. Beyond compliance, this effort is a key component of valuing diversity in an educational ecosystem that supports inclusivity and universal design in education.

      accessibility over compliance. Love it.

  2. Jan 2018
    1. Many of us have some idea of where we are supposed to go, but have a less clear sense how to get there. Some of us are impatient with the speed of change. Others wade carefully into uncertain waters, ever afraid to offend or betray their ignorance – a near unforgiveable offence in these spaces.
    1. Alta boasts higher student mastery because it ties all assignments to the learning objectives in a course as designed by the instructor. When a student struggles, Alta’s technology diagnoses the issues and delivers instructional content to bridge the student’s knowledge gap.
    1. Publishers, which are increasingly investing in digital products for college classrooms, are making a concerted effort to help faculty members adapt to that change.

      more product/platform, less content

    1. "We developed a lot of these centers and programs and positions without a strong understanding of how to go about measuring impact and return on investment," says Ms. Bishop, director of Maryland’s Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation. As a result, she says, when budgets get cut, or new leaders come in, these centers are often among the first to go.
    2. ompetency-based approach
    1. In addition, they are not improving, as CCC claims for the aggregated results.

      it looks like there has been "general" increase in success for all online students since 2010 and rather flat trends for in-person since 2012.

    2. In addition, online makes the racial disparity of in-person courses somewhat worse.

      somewhat?

    3. Online and the Color Line
    1. That was just one benefit of including students in course design, professors at Dayton and other colleges have discovered. The practice can also help students reflect on their learning and provide professors with fresh ideas for exploring a topic they may have been teaching for years.
    1. Competencies are developed by appropriate faculty and employers and are focused on knowledge and skills that a student must demonstrate to pass a course and to ultimately earn a credential. Once identified,content,courses,and assessments are then mapped to these competencies.Students who are able to learn by demonstrating mastery of skillswill receive credit to advance toward a credential.For students who are older and already have experience, this practice can be useful for more quickly attaining credits

      developed by faculty and employers

    2. stablishing competency-based education components. According to the U.S. Department of Education, “transitioning away from seat time, in favor of a structure that creates flexibility, (competency-based learning) allows students to progress as they demonstrate mastery of academic content, regardless of time, place, or pace of learning. Competency-based strategies provide flexibility in the way that credit can be earned or awarded, and provide students with personalized learning opportunities...This type of learning leads to better student engagement because the content is relevant to each student and tailored to their unique needs. It also leads to better student outcomes because the pace of learning is customized to each student.” Competency-based education incorporates the knowledge and skills students acquired ata prior time of their lives. Examples of prior learning include prior military service, workplace training including apprenticeships, and approved certificates.

      prior learning

    3. Establishingcompetency-based educational opportunities that recognize a student’s prior learning and help a student advance toward a credential.
    1. his new, competency-based online college will be unlike any other public online education platform and will focus predominately on sub-associate degree credentials of value tailored to the needs of these working learners.
    1. justifying a complex conclusion to a problem by understanding, evaluating, and discussing the significance of the assumptions, limitations, interpretations, and validity of the evidence.

      one def of critical thinking

    1. Investigating the Connection between Usability and Learning Outcomes inOnline Learning Environments 
    1. By providing instruction with multiple means of representation, students will be better equipped to respond to the material using different modes of communication and will therefore be able to illustrate their level of engagement and overall interest in ways that optimize individual choice, agency,and authenticity.

      helps all students not just those who self identify with access issues.

    2. Adopting the Principles of Universal Design into International and Global Studies’ Programs and Curriculum
    1. Anxiety is just one of those emotions we as educators are dealing with, both our own and our students’. Another one is love.

      Closely related

    1. It believes in creating producers and collaborators of knowledge rather than consumers of it.

      creators over consumers. so many great quotes in this!

    2. Open education is based on the premise that knowledge should be collaboratively built and shared by all.

      amazing. process over product.

    3. The school's founders believe that the commodification and ownership of knowledge is the primary reason for the inequity in access to quality educational resources.

      wow. nice!

    1. many professors are focusing their pedagogy on cultivating higher-order cognitive skills — those well-known upper tiers of Bloom’s Taxonomy — and gravitating toward experiential education that emphasizes the application, evaluation, and creation of knowledge.

      creation of knowledge

  3. Dec 2017
    1. The survey suggests that faculty members are now choosing OpenStax textbooks for large-enrollment introductory courses at roughly the same rate as commercial textbooks.
    2. OER adoption rates close to publisher rates

    1. A Renewable Assignment is any assignment where: Students will do the work Faculty will grade the work The work is inherently valuable to someone beyond the class The work is openly published so those other people can find and use (5R) it”
    1. But actually, learning is failure driven

      how to best teach/foster "recovery from mistakes"

    2. to give students opportunities to answer questions that nobody in the room knows the answer to

      maybe even create questions nobody in the room knows the answer to...

    1. The head of a small university’s "academic innovation" office explains why that phrase isn’t a contradiction in terms, and how the office helps professors amplify creative approaches to teaching and learning.
    1. How do we keep building an education where students feel like full agents, owners of their own learning, while also being given the necessary tools? Laptops, domain space, but much more importantly, food, shelter, accommodations and compassion?

      Access. Just being able to get through the door.

    2. What happened this year that will still matter in 2022? Digital learning experts weigh in.
    1. a six-step process (Salmon, 2016). In stage 1, participants write a blueprint by agreeing on a mission statement and ‘look and feel’ for the new course. In stage 2, participants develop a storyboard by visually plotting the various components of the course (classes, assessments, and other activities) on A3 flip chart paper. In the third stage, participants develop an online prototype of their new course, by trying out some of the redesigned activities in the online platform. In stage four, participants perform a ‘reality check’ by asking other workshop participants to try out their prototype and offer feedback. Participants review and adjust the prototype in stage 5 and then develop an action plan (stage 6) whereby they decide what else needs to be done to complete the course, when it needs to be done, and by who
    2. three-day faculty bootcamp

      bootcamp style

    1. “Mommy, Daddy, will you tell me the origin of SPLOT story again?”

      Probably sooner than later.

    1. Some faculty members have reportedly expressed concern that OER labeling will put courses without OER materials at a disadvantage in the registration process.

      One would think (hope).

    2. OER and Affordable-Textbook Labeling Gains Ground
    1. The most powerful tool the med school has to win faculty mem-bers over is that they are “scien-tists at heart” and “understand the evidence” suggesting students in flipped classrooms perform better than students in lecture courses, Jeffries said. At Touro, for example, the pass rate on an important licens-ing exam has climbed to above 95 percent -- higher than the national average -- since the college flipped its curriculum

      faculty respond to data. impressive pass rate.

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  4. Nov 2017
    1. Portland State University
    2. Indeed, many universities say they are student-centered but rarely take the steps that Portland State has over the last five years to design systems that actually work for students.
    1. “The technology should not be driving what you do in instruction. We should look at them as resources,” Moskal said. “What is the problem or the issue or what you are trying to achieve in your instruction, and then go look for appropriate technologies that can help you most efficiently and with the highest level of instruction achieve some of those improvements.”

      Some still haven't heard this message?

    1. In this blog, I pull together several of the concepts discussed in previous posts, such as Portals and WikiProjects, and consider how you can begin to develop course materials and assignments for a Wikipedia-based course.
    1. Open Pedagogy, which for us means working at the intersection of OER, accessibility and access, student empowerment, and connected learning.
    1. Higher education is a public good we all embrace and we promote. That cannot be said enough.”

      Amen!

    2. Research universities need to do a better job of explaining to the public the impact and importance of research, and the role it plays improving lives

      How about not just research unis.?

  5. www.projectconnect.world www.projectconnect.world
    1. Project Connect is a non-profit working to map every school in the world. Our goal is to provide real-time data assessing the quality of each school’s Internet connectivity, eventually creating an observable metric of society’s progress towards enabling educational access and opportunity for every student on Earth.
    1. Once students understand their roles as knowledge producers in the classroom, they can apply those reflections to other coursework and throughout their careers
    1. Hold the player’s hand too much and she disengages out of boredom. Ask too much of her too soon and she quits in frustration.

      Thinking how this relates to course design...

    1. “It has contributed to the abandonment of the notion of higher education as a public good in favor of it being viewed as a private commodity.”
    2. “I think the biggest challenge [with] higher education today is the growing economic and racial segregation,” Pasquerella said.

      damn