By Anonymous academic. The current system exploits graduate teaching assistants, excludes them from discussions and often treats them as a lower class of teachers. More...
12 octobre 2014
12 octobre 2014
Uncover your strengths in two easy steps!
By Liz Koblyk. Seldom do magazine cover promises of easy steps and good results live up to their claims. But sometimes, there actually is a set of short steps we can take to accomplish something worthwhile. That doesn’t mean we’ll naturally take them, mind you. Normally, if there’s something seemingly simple and time-limited that might be useful, we find endless reasons to avoid it because. More...
5 octobre 2014
Datapalooza
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Datapalooza
Jose Ferreira, Adaptive Learning in ELT, 2014/10/01
Knewton's sales representative, Jose Ferreira, is making some big claims. "We literally have more data about our students than any company has about anybody else about anything, and it’s not even close.... We literally know everything about what you know and how you learn best, everything." Except, responds Philop Kerr, it's not that simple. More...
5 octobre 2014
The Learning Machine, pecking pigeons and the Sending of Being
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Learning Machine, pecking pigeons and the Sending of Being
nick shackleton-jones, aconventional, 2014/09/29
When people interact with each other, the social learning produced is not the replication of content from one mind to the next to the next. It's not even contained in any individual mind at all. Rather, society as a whole develops new learning. This is the meaning of "We think, therefore we am." Nick Shackleton-Jones captures the effect of this nicely. More...
5 octobre 2014
Is the Public Institution Business Model Viable in the Long Term?
By Javier Miyares - EvoLLLution. 3. In July, a UMUC advisory board suggested that one way to close the enrollment gap would be to convert UMUC to a non-profit, public business entity with defined ties to the University System of Maryland. How would this move benefit UMUC in the short term?
The recommendation is not related to the short term. We’re beginning to see a rebounding of the declining enrollments. We have implemented many changes to increase our enrollment here stateside. We’ll be making some changes overseas, particularly in Asia, to increase our enrollment overseas. More...
4 octobre 2014
I Just Came To Say Ello
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. There’s a new social media space up and running called Ello.co. It’s currently by invitation only, says that it values your privacy and won’t ever show you ads. Of course, it still tracks you and there’s no way to block users who might be abusive, and they have venture capital money invested in them so they already have an exit strategy. Read more...4 octobre 2014
Introverts in an Extroverted World
By Laura Tropp. I have been rethinking my policy towards participation in class. My policy has always stated that students need to find some way to add to the class discussion. I tell them that they should plan to speak at least once during class. When I observe other faculty teaching, I look for the level and quality of participation in their classes. Read more...
4 octobre 2014
Math Geek Mom: Planned Obsolescence
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When I made myself a “reverse bucket list” promise to survive my struggle with a brain tumor because I wanted to live to get married and have children, I doubt I even knew what a “book rep” was. I had only taught a few days, and I had not yet met any. Still, over almost four years later, that is exactly who I married. A kind, good man came to sell me books, and ended up, as he (now a lawyer) likes to joke, with a “life sentence.” I remember learning much about the textbook publishing industry in those days, and was surprised that he was honestly mystified as to why professors did not want to switch books every semester to try out new ones that were promised to be better than the ones currently used. Read more...4 octobre 2014
Seeking Out Unconventional Student Affairs Jobs
By Eric Stoller. Last week's post about emerging career possibilities for student affairs professionals was a thought piece about future gigs for future practitioners. A comment on the post about how good it would be when Coursera started hiring student affairs folk prompted me to do a quick search around the web for jobs that might not fit the traditional pathways for student affairs. Read more...
4 octobre 2014
Better Living Through Advanced Tricycling
By Jason B. Jones. Longtime readers (George, mom) will know that I have a giant internet crush on Merlin Mann, who most people outside of Tallahassee first heard about through his productivity-themed website 43folders, then through his Inbox Zero e-mail talk at Google, and most recently as a podcaster on shows such as Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, and You Look Nice Today: A Journal of Emotional Hygiene. (How big a crush? I invited him for a 3-talk visit back in the day.) Merlin usually says that he’s interested in time and attention, and in creative work. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)