Students Find Free Online Lectures Better Than What They're Paying For - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

• Students Find Free Online Lectures Better Than What They're Paying For - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  There is a wealth of good lecture material out there.

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams

"Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information."

Doesn't sound too bad to me.

Gideon Shalwick — The Meta Workings Of An Online Entrepreneur

• Gideon Shalwick — The Meta Workings Of An Online Entrepreneur

  Blog site with a short how-to explanation of using a free web service called UStreamtv to embed streaming video in a blog. Could have some nice applications for teacher-student and student-student interaction outside of class.
  

  tags: elpc3, elpcm

Tony Bates Using Technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy Part 2

• Tony Bates Using Technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy Part 2

  Second part of Tony Bates' article on the future of higher education.  Has a good summary list at the end.
  

  tags: fifthlearn

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Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1 « Tony Bates

• Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1 « Tony Bates

  tags: fifthlearn

   The first part of a good consideration of how university education may change in the near future and the role that technology will play in those changes.

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Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching

• Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching

  Insightful paper on using CMS like Moodle and Blackboard

  tags: elpprodev

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Instructional Design Models

• Instructional Design Models

  Wonderful and extensive collection of information on instructional design.

  tags: fifthlearn

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International Higher Education Consulting Blog™: Social Learning Sites and Online Communities for Language Learners

http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2009/09/social-learning-sites-and-online.html

This is a good list of online language learning sites and resources

Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com

• Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com

  but then we knew this already.....

  tags: elpc3, elpcm

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Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com

• Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com

  A question this article brings to my mind is why can't academic writing be for a wide audience? Perhaps melding traditional academic writing with the broad reach and audience of the internet is what we should be working on.

  tags: arw

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Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com

• Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com

  Is the ELP a model for the university of the future? We seem to fit some of the recommendations in this article. However, there are ideas here that would be good for us to consider as well.

  tags: elparw, elprca

  • Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs
  • Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts, which, like the programs in which faculty teach, can be terminated or renewed. This policy would enable colleges and universities to reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.

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ZaidLearn: Do You Want To Learn English As A Second Language?

• ZaidLearn: Do You Want To Learn English As A Second Language?

  Nice aggregation of on-line ESL sites

  tags: elpicu

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Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage

• Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Orchestrating the Media Collage

  tags: no_tag

• Several well articulated points about how to blend new and old literacies such as this sample quote:
• • "The demands of digital literacy make clear that both research reports and stories represent important approaches to thinking and communicating; students need to be able to understand and use both forms. One of the more exciting pedagogical frontiers that awaits us is learning how to combine the two, blending the critical thinking of the former with the engagement of the latter."

Wired Campus: Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis - Chronicle.com

• Wired Campus: Lev Gonick: How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis - Chronicle.com

• Future generations of learners will no doubt look back at the global economic crisis of 2008-9 and reflect on which institutions were agile enough to make a difference by bringing the wisdom of their scholars together with the acumen of their technology officers and the ingenuity and determination of their university leaders. It’s actually not only the future of the university that is in play. How we produce, organize, and distribute open education resources is at the heart of the future of education around the world. —Lev Gonick

• tags: elpc3

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Google is Changing Your Brain

• Eide Neurolearning Blog: Google is Changing Your Brain

  Whether it is for better or worse is still in dispute.....

  tags: elpc3

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NFB.ca - Watch quality Canadian Documentary, Animation and Fiction

• NFB.ca - Watch quality Canadian Documentary, Animation and Fiction

  The National Film Board of Canada is making many of the films in its collection available for free on line. I highly recommend watching a 9-minute film called A Chairy Tale if you don't know it. It can be an excellent resource for discussion and writing. Lots of other great film resources as well.

  tags: elplss, elpcrithnk, elpcm

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Outsourcing assessment to Cisco, Microsoft and Intel?

• Learning and Technology World Forum

  Interesting development in testing that may separate assessment from educational systems and institutions.
  

• "Based on extensive research, Cisco, Intel and Microsoft concluded that most education systems have not kept pace with the dramatic changes in the economy and the skill sets that are required for students to succeed. These skills include the ability to think critically and creatively; to work cooperatively; and to adapt to the evolving use of technology in business and society."

   

  
  

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons

• From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons

  An interesting article. The notion of subjectivities rather than subjects may be worth considering relative to the topics or themes in the ELP. I think we are in many ways closer to subjectivities than subjects already, but recognizing this more explicitly may be useful as part of our reforms. That is, perhaps we can rethink our content-based approach as a questions-based approach. Mutual exploration of questions may be more engaging for students than just absorbing content.
  

  tags: elpc3, elpvv, elpcrithnk