Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Students and teachers in some University of Georgia introductory biology courses experimented with using a free digital textbook instead of expensive paper texts in fall 2013 courses, and liked it. More...
By Joshua Kim. Marc Andreessen, “Why Software Is Eating The World”.
When it comes to higher education, Marc Andreessen is wrong. Software will never eat higher education.
Higher education is not like record stores. Not like Blockbuster Video. Not like Kodak. Not like travel agents. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. Tracy Mitrano asks “Is the 4th Amendment dead in cyberspace?” She thinks the distinction between metadata and the content it is attached to can no longer be treated separately by U.S. law. I concur, and agree with her that FISA, a court created after the COINTELPRO hearings to give intelligence services some judicial oversight, needs to be thoroughly reformed if not abolished. Read more...
By Eric Stoller. If you're ever in need of some useful digital resources, it would serve you well to take a spin through Jisc's website. I've written about and/or mentioned Jisc in previous posts. Providing "digital solutions for UK education and research," Jisc is a great source for digital inspiration and thought-leadership. Read more...
By Paul Redfern. We’ve devoted years of conference chatter to integrating digital into our traditional communications environments. But is it time to turn the tables and let digital take the lead. More...
By Peter Stokes. It’s taken decades, but educational technology is finally beginning to change the way we think about education itself -- not just the way we deliver it. Read more...
By Gates Bryant. The mudslinging in the debate over the use of digital courseware has reached Hatfield-and-McCoy levels of feuding. I have heard at least one higher education leader say, “The only faculty that are afraid of being replaced by digital courseware are those who deserve to be replaced by digital courseware.” Also heard are descriptors such as: rigid, skeptical, curmudgeon, Luddite, etc. On the other side, there are the “reformers” and “disruptive innovators” who are criticized for seeing technology as a panacea. Read more...
By Adeline Koh. There is a ton of free material on learning how to teach with new digital tools online. That’s one of the best things that ProfHacker writers have been dispensing since its inception. We’ve written about teaching with Twitter, with Wikipedia, creating interactive texts with Twine, even the Creepy Treehouse problem of friending your students on social media. One of the things we haven’t done, though, is offer online courses on digital pedagogy–a new venture the journal Hybrid Pedagogy has taken with Digital Pedagogy Lab. Read more...
By Katarzyna Kubacka. Rapid developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have made it an important part of our daily lives, from staying in contact with people, to checking traffic and booking tickets. However, ICT can also be a useful tool for teachers in advancing 21st century learning. As the new Teaching in Focus (TIF) brief ‘Teaching with technology’ reports, the use of ICT for students’ projects or class work is an active teaching practice that promotes skills for students’ lifelong success. Read more...
Selon les résultats de l'enquête PIAAC 2013 de l'OCDE, le niveau des compétences en numératie de près d'un adulte sur quatre dans l’UE est égal ou inférieur à 1 sur l'échelle de cinq points utilisée à des fins de comparaison. Ceci suggère qu'un grand nombre de jeunes adultes européens peuvent raisonnablement être considérés comme ayant un faible niveau de compétences mathématiques. C'est un problème pour les intéressés eux-mêmes, en termes d'accès aux opportunités d'emploi et de vie quotidienne, et pour une économie qui a de plus en plus besoin de qualifications supérieures pour rester compétitive. Comme l'a reconnu la Commission européenne, cette situation place les adultes les moins qualifiés dans «le piège des emplois peu qualifiés» et renforce l'importance des mesures visant à encourager ceux qui ont quitté l'enseignement formel à reprendre des études. Toutefois, inciter les adultes peu qualifiés à améliorer leurs compétences mathématiques peut se révéler très ardu. Voir l'article...
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