College branding: The tipping point — from forbes.com by Roger Dooley
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Change is coming to this market. While there are multiple issues of increasing importance to schools, two stand out as major game-changers.
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Important notes for the boards throughout higher education to consider:
Your institution can’t increase tuition by one dime next year.…
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Loading...NASA hosts its first Google+ Hangout connecting with space station– from nasa.gov
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WASHINGTON — NASA will host its first Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station from 11 a.m. to noon EST, Friday, Feb. 22. This event will connect NASA’s social media followers with astronauts on the ground and living and working aboard the laboratory orbiting 240 miles above Earth.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As my contribution to #etMOOC, I wanted to pull together some resources re: digital storytelling:
Digital Storytelling – from app-list.posterous.com and HCS Mobile, which showcases students learning with mobile devices in Horry County Schools
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Digital Storytelling combines images, narration, and other audio to tell a story.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...FrogOS video walkthrough – The future of learning technology — from frogtrade
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Well here it is, two years in the making, 1000′s of man hours and finally we can proudly show you the new software we have been showcasing at Bett 2013.…
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First, what prompted the questions and reflections that are listed below? For that, I turn to some recent items that I ran across involving the use of robotics and whether that may or may not be affecting employment:
The work of Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee; for example their book Race Against the Machine
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But digital innovation has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and here the news is not good for the median worker.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...How NOT to design a MOOC: The disaster at Coursera and how to fix it — from onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com by Debbie Morrison
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Note: I’m also enrolled in Coursera’s E-learning and Digital Cultures, with University of Edinburgh, which is so far excellent. …
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As a team of us have been charged with putting together a new collaborative workspace/conference room, I’ve been thinking about some ideas for a new type of interface as well as some new types of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to be used in group collaboration/web-based collaboration. …
(-1 rating, 1 votes)Loading...The MOOC goes to high school — from blogs.edweek.org by Lisa Duty (@lisaduty1 )
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Last summer when Reynoldsburg City Schools connected with Udacity, the highly acclaimed provider of free university-level education, it envisioned a new model for learning with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that would come to life during, not after, high school.
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In real estate, one hear’s the mantra:
Location. Location. Location.
In higher education, I have it that we’ll be hearing this for a while:
Experimentation. Experimentation. Experimentation.
Consider the following reflections on Steve’ Kolowich’s solid article, The new intelligence (from InsideHigherEd.com)…
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With thanks going out to Ross Dawson for his recent tweet on this.…
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