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9 mars 2013

Office Web Apps Or Google Docs for Online Learning?

By Joshua Kim. I'm faced with a dilemma, and I hope that you can help?
My team is working to introduce improved collaboration tools for our online learners. We have concluded that the native Wiki and file exchange features in our LMS are insufficient for the sort of rich collaboration that our student teams need. Uploading and downloading files is too cumbersome and error prone. Student team members need to be able to collaboratively create and edit documents. Ideally, students should be able to collaborate on documents from whatever screen they happen to be holding - read tablet or smart phone. So the choice seems to be to integrate Office Web Apps or Google Apps with our LMS. Read more...

9 mars 2013

MOOCs R Us

HomeBy Carolyn Foster Segal. There’s a legendary story about Anne Sexton’s learning how to write a sonnet by watching I.A. Richard’s educational-television series in the late fifties. I’ve thought about that fairly often while reading the daily stories on MOOCs. In the Sexton/Richards instance, there was a fortuitous electronic meeting of an excellent teacher who saw possibilities in the then “new” technology of television and a motivated student who was ready to write as if  -- and according to her this was indeed the case -- her life depended on it. That hyperbolic tone of the last sentence above -- a tone that readers of Sexton’s later poems and interviews are already familiar with -- is also the tone of a good many declarations about MOOCs.
Thomas Friedman’s latest column “The Professors’ Big Stage” is a case in point. His piece on “the MOOCs revolution” is riddled with contradictions, shallow thinking -- and an error in basic arithmetic. Read more...

9 mars 2013

Strangers in a Strange Land

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. In interviews with 40 international students at four research universities, Chris R. Glass was struck by the relative absence of Americans from his subjects' stories. The interviewees, half undergraduate and half graduate students, described close relationships with their international peers, including those coming from countries other than their own. But while they frequently characterized their American classmates as friendly or helpful, only rarely did they seem to play a significant role in their lives.
"Only one student has described a significant relationship with a U.S. peer and that student was from Western Europe and that peer was her boyfriend," said Glass, an assistant professor of educational foundations and leadership at Old Dominion University. "That to me is a striking omission from the stories that they're telling." Read more...

9 mars 2013

Learning How to Teach

HomeBy Ry Rivard. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Amid the various influences that massive open online courses have had on higher education in their short life so far -- the topic of a daylong conference here Monday -- this may be among the more unexpected: The courses may be prompting some faculty to pay more attention to their teaching styles than they ever have before. The conference, organized Monday in Cambridge by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, featured academics and administrators from elite North American universities and other players in the world of MOOCs discussing the rise of online courses and the future of residential colleges and universities. Read more...

9 mars 2013

Rise of Customized Learning

HomeBy Paul Fain. The credit hour is still higher education’s gold standard, even after President Obama’s vague endorsement last month of competency-based education and its focus on “performance and results” rather than seat time.
It’s unclear whether Obama’s call could help open the door for competency-based approaches by spurring changes to the current system of accreditation or the rules governing federal financial aid. Even so, colleges aren’t waiting on the feds.
Several institutions have continued to expand competency-based offerings aimed at working adults. And while all but one are still grounded in the credit hour, these online degree programs are typically self-paced and emphasize the testing of competency, sometimes even of learning that occurs outside of the traditional classroom. Read more...

9 mars 2013

Besieged Humanities, Worldwide

HomeBy Scott Jaschik. DUBAI -- If it's any comfort to humanities professors who feel that their jobs, budgets and disciplines are being threatened, they have colleagues facing the same challenges pretty much all over the world. That was the consensus of a session here at Going Global, the international education conference of the British Council. A panel of scholars discussed problems that they see for the humanities (and social sciences too), and panelists agreed that the threats faced by humanities departments are quite common around the world. And they worried not only about the cuts, but about the arguments being made about the humanities. In something of a surprise for such discussions, the only optimistic comments came from the dean of a business school. Read more...

9 mars 2013

Free Textbook Company Shelves Clones

HomeBy Ry Rivard. A company that offered free “alternatives” to three popular college textbooks has rewritten its controversial offerings following a lawsuit by major textbook publishers. Boston-based Boundless, which has become a darling of the open educational resources movement seen as threatening traditional textbook publishers, offered versions of textbooks that would normally cost scores if not hundreds of dollars. It pitched what it offered as "textbook replacement,” created by essentially reverse engineering popular textbooks. Boundless attracted considerable attention, including an $8 million round of venture capital funding led by Venrock, an investment group started by the Rockefellers. Read more...

9 mars 2013

English Prof as Entrepreneur

HomeBy Richard Utz. In 1892, the president of Leland Stanford University, David Starr Jordan, managed to convince Ewald Flügel, a scholar at the University of Leipzig, to join the young institution’s rudimentary English department. Flügel had received his doctoral degree in 1885 with a study of Thomas Carlyle under the aegis of Richard Wülcker, one of the founders of English studies in Europe. Three years later, he finished his postdoctoral degree, with a study on Sir Philip Sydney, and was appointed to the position of a Privatdozent at Leipzig. The position of the Privatdozent is one of the most fascinating features at the modern German universities in the late 19th century. Although endowed with the right to direct dissertations and teach graduate seminars, the position most often offered only the smallest of base salaries, leaving the scholar to earn the rest of his keep by students who paid him directly for enrolling in his seminars and lectures. Read more...

9 mars 2013

Measuring the MOOC Dropout Rate

HomeBy Ry Rivard. Researchers are trying to understand why the vast majority of students fail to finish free online classes and who is signing up for the classes to begin with. One widely quoted dropout figure for students in massive open online courses is 90 percent. The number would be staggeringly high for a traditional class and has been used to cast doubt on the promise of MOOCs. The number is simple to come up with: take the number of users who register for a course and compare it to the number still participating at the end. But is it fair?
Some researchers say MOOC dropout figures being bandied about do little to describe why hundreds of thousands of people across the world are signing up for MOOCs in the first place. All but a few of the courses offered by MOOC providers are free and don’t earn students any college credit. There are also no enforced prerequisites as there are for normal college courses. Read more...

9 mars 2013

Priorité donnée aux bacheliers technologiques dans les IUT

Orientation : donner la priorité aux bacheliers technologiques dans les I.U.TGeneviève Fioraso s'est déplacée à Reims jeudi 7 mars, à l'Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne.
Lors d'une table-ronde avec des étudiants de l'IUT de Reims Châlons-en-Champagne Charleville-Mézières, la ministre a détaillé une des mesures phares du projet de loi sur l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche qui sera présenté en Conseil des ministres le 20 mars prochain: l'orientation prioritaire des titulaires d'un baccalauréat technologique vers les I.U.T. et des titulaires d'un baccalauréat professionnel vers les STS. L'objectif est de proposer un parcours de réussite à tous les étudiants, quelque soit leur baccalauréat, en leur proposant d'emblée une orientation adaptée. Au moment où s'engage la réforme de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, Geneviève Fioraso a tenu à réaffirmer la volonté du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche de conforter l'action des IUT, au sein des universités.
"La démocratisation de l'accès aux études, le renforcement des liens entre l'université et l'entreprise, la priorité donnée à la réussite et à l'insertion professionnelle sont autant d'objectifs de la loi en préparation qui ne pourront pas être atteints sans l'investissement de tous, et notamment des IUT."
La ministre a rappelé qu'un étudiant sur cinq quitte l'enseignement supérieur sans diplôme, toutes filières confondues, et que le taux de réussite des bacheliers technologiques, de 68% en IUT, n'est que de 13,5% pour ceux qui intègrent l'université, souvent par défaut.
A l'heure où le redressement productif est au cœur des priorités, il est essentiel de prendre en compte les bacheliers des filières professionnelles et technologiques. C'est un devoir de justice sociale, un enjeu de formation et d'insertion professionnelle."
Orientation: donner la priorité aux bacheliers technologiques dans les IUT.

Treoshuíomh: tosaíocht a thabhairt do baccalauréat teicneolaíochta i IUT Genevieve Fioraso bhog sé go dtí Reims Déardaoin, 7 MÁRTA, in Ollscoil Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
Le linn cruinniú bord cruinn le mic léinn ó IUT Chalons-Reims-Champagne i Ráth-Mezieres, tá an tAire síos gur beart bunúsach é an Bhille um Ard-Oideachas agus Taighde a chur faoi bhráid na Comhairle na nAirí ar an 20 Márta:. Treo Tosaíocht na teicneolaíochta Baitsiléir leis an IUT agus Baccalaureate ghairmiúil a STS Is é an cuspóir a mholadh chonair na rath do gach mac léinn, beag beann ar a n-chéim, trí treoshuíomh oiriúnach láithreach. Ag gabháil nuair a athchóiriú an ardoideachais agus taighde, ar siúl Geneviève Fioraso a athdhearbhú an tiomantas an Aireacht um Ard-Oideachas agus Taighde a neartú ar an ngníomh an IUT, in ollscoileanna. Níos mó...
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