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16 août 2014

Finishing What They Started

By Matt Reed. This post is a shameless attempt to learn from others’ experiences. Community colleges have long had multiple markets. One of those is adults who have some college experience, and an accumulation of credits, but no degree. Frequently these are folks who had some sort of major personal-life change in the course of college, and had to walk away. Years later, the decision to walk away acts as a sort of limit on earning power, as well as a nagging sense of something missing. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Perspectives from IELOL

By Tracy Mitrano. “But Mr. Deresiewicz does propose things like smaller classes, teachers who are more committed to their students than to their research and basing affirmative action on class rather than on race.”
I am at Penn State, attending as faculty the Online Consortium (formerly Sloan Foundation) Institute for Emerging Leaders in Online Learning (IELOL). Three and a half intense days of working on on-line, distance learning from every angle: first and foremost, the global perspective; the how to’s least in terms of technology, most from the institutional organization and cultural perspective. Take away: The Netherlands and New Zealand lead the world in distance education. The United States is way down on the list. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Games, Games, Games!

By Lee Skallerup Bessette. Last week, I attended HILT (Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching), which is a digital humanities week-long training in the vein of DHSI. I took Anastasia Salter’s course, Games in the Humanities Classroom. Anastasia is brilliant and wonderful and you should definitely buy her new What is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books. She challenged us to build a game a day for five days. We did seven. You can see the Prezi of our class’ presentation to the group, plus check out #hilt2014 on Twitter for all the goodness that was last week. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Doing more with less

By G. Rendell. Environmental impact (in recent experience, negative environmental impact) correlates with consumption. It's less intuitively obvious, but economic and social sustainability challenges also correlate with consumption. Yet our students are conditioned to adjudge their happiness on the basis of how much stuff they have which, in the default instance, equates to how much they consume. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Being Used to the 'Best' of Your Abilities

By John Warner. In the wake of posting last week’s column exploring the fact that this will likely be my last semester teaching a fiction writing course, I received a very nice email from a former student. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Rethinking My Cell Phone/Computer Policy

By John Warner. Twitter is a great tool for eavesdropping.
While working on my course policies for the coming semester, I flipped over to Twitter – as I am wont to do 15 or 20 times per hour – and was brought short by this tweet from Jesse Stommel, an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. Read more...

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16 août 2014

New Cell Phone/Computer Policy Draft Version

By John Warner. In the wake of my previous post about rethinking my policies regarding phones and computers in the classroom, I spent a good chunk of yesterday rewriting them. I include them here in draft format. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Data-Driven Madness

By John Warner. Should someone’s sentence for a crime be based on the risk of them committing another crime in the future?
What if that calculation of that risk was “data-driven,” the risk determined based on the defendant’s age, education, employment and educational status, finances, neighborhood, and family history? Read more...

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16 août 2014

4 Reasons Why I Don't Borrow Digital Books

By Joshua Kim. "Neither Molly nor you seem to be appreciative of the public libraries and their impressive ebooks collections. As a taxpayer, I'm able to take get hold of the newest titles and bestsellers thanks to my local library. I haven't ever had to pay for an ebook and still ready at least one each week, a treat for my daily commute to campus.”
Ola, commenting on my piece Should You Subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. Read more...

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16 août 2014

Online Learning and Digital Books

By Joshua Kim. Before I make the claim that online learning to higher ed is like digital books to publishing, I need to set some things straight.
I’m Higher Ed Old School: Give me every class in a seminar room, lab or studio. Put students and faculty around a table and throw out all the technology. If you work in edtech for any number of years you quickly realize that technology has, on balance, done more harm than good for learning. Read more...

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