Analysing writing
Doug Peterson, doug — off the record, 2016/08/29
Doug Peterson introduces us to a lovely application called FoxType, which I tried out this morning. Essentially, the idea is that it provides a number of services to help you understand your own writing. More...
SLOs for a Real Education
Karl Fisch, The Fischbowl, 2016/08/29
This post links to a new podcast from Michael Wesch (which I've already added to Ed Radio). Wesch is quoted: "we have to help them achieve all this within a bureaucratic structure that demands that we frame our goals in a few neat bullet points at the top of our syllabus in a section called: Student Learning Outcomes, often called SLOs." Here are the SLOs Wesch really wants to write:
Students entering college this year have grown up in a world where a phone is used for anything except voice communication. Instead, it is a video game, a direction finder, an electronic telegraph and a research library. More...
Xfinity on Campus gives students the video content they love, on the device of their choice. As we get ready for another back-to-school season, we’re thrilled to announce that more than 100 colleges and universities are now enrolled in the service—nearly a 60% increase over last year. More...
Sal Khan turned tutoring lessons with his cousins into a series of free educational videos called Khan Academy. His goal: To make learning accessible for everyone, everywhere. More...
Higher education institutions of all sizes across the U.S. have invested in Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud solutions for the modern planning and forecasting insights. More...
Campus Management today announced that Bryant University Zhuhai selected CampusNexus Student on the CampusNexus Cloud to assist in the institution's goal of expanding education opportunities in China's Guangdong Province. More...
Robert Morris University announced Thursday it will join a high-demand cloud computing certification program to better prepare its information technology students for lucrative employment in the city. More...
WhatsApp users to receive adverts
BBC News, 2016/08/26
Readers of my social network accounts will know that I have shuttered my Facebook accounts and ceased using that service. The reason is that Facebook disabled the ad blocker I use in Firefox in order to force advertisements into the news stream. I have also made sure to uninstall WhatsApp (which is owned by Facebook) from my phone. More...
As University of Wisconsin leadership consider consolidating two-year and four-year colleges, some education experts say the change follows a trend among higher education programs. More...
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