Top 10 Highly-Desired Skills You Can Teach Yourself. ‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online - Wired Campus. Milwaukee — Digital natives? The idea that students are superengaged finders of online learning materials once struck Glenda Morgan, e-learning strategist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as “a load of hooey.” Students, she figured, probably stick with the textbooks and other content they’re assigned in class. Not quite. The preliminary results of a multiyear study of undergraduates’ online study habits, presented by Ms. Morgan at a conference on blended learning here this week, show that most students shop around for digital texts and videos beyond the boundaries of what professors assign them in class.
“It’s almost like they want to find the content by themselves,” Ms. It’s nothing new to hear that students supplement their studies with other universities’ online lecture videos. Ms. But the study also highlights the challenge facing professors and librarians. They “don’t want to ask librarians or tutors in the study center or stuff like that,” she says. Ms. First Monday. Davidwiley.org. Open access. Research publications that are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers.[1] With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.[1] The main focus of the open access movement is "peer reviewed research literature.
"[2] Historically, this has centered mainly on print-based academic journals. Since the revenue of some open access journals are earned from publication fees charged from the authors, there are concerns about the quality of articles published in OA journals.[6][7] Definitions[edit] There are different models of open access publishing and publishers may use one or more of these models. Colour naming system[edit] Gold OA[edit] Green OA[edit] Hybrid OA[edit] Bronze OA[edit]
Open-access Publishing & Educational Resources discussion is lively! Susan Edwards, Head Librarian, Education Psychology & Social Welfare Libraries and Margaret Phillips, Librarian at DOE facilitated a lively discussion today regarding Open Access Publishing & Educational Resources and shared with the group many useful links. Susan and Margaret shared a wonderful online resource for those of us who are interested in learning more about open content, open resources, and open publishing.
Visit their Open Educational Resources in Higher Education library site for definitions, resources, copyright information, publishing, etc. The group talked a lot about the value of open access content. (Open Access can be defined as unrestricted online access to articles published in scholarly journals, books, or other texts.) See this wikpedia entry as a launching point for many definitions and usages. The question of, "Why not make your content available online to the widest possible audience?
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There are a couple possible reasons for this: The article has expired from our system. What next? You may also want to try our search to locate news and information on MercuryNews.com. If you're looking for an article that was published in the last two weeks, here are more options: You can also click on one of our sections: Go With The Flow. According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, great Web sites are not about navigating content, but staging experience. A compelling Web site transforms a random walk into an exhilarating chase. The key, says psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a finely tuned sense of rhythm, involvement, and anticipation known as "flow. " Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "CHICK-sent-me-high-ee"), a professor at the University of Chicago, has spent more than 25 years researching flow, a state of "intense emotional involvement" and timelessness that comes from immersive and challenging activities such as software coding or rock climbing.
His work is studied by marketing specialists like Vanderbilt University's Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, who write that flow is "a central construct when considering consumer navigation on commercial Web sites. " In books like Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Csikszentmihalyi explores the implications of flow for personal and societal evolution.
Putting the "Public" In Publicly-Funded Research. Sometimes an idea is so blindingly, obviously good that you have to wonder why it hasn’t already been implemented. A few years ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had an idea like that. Why not create a free, public, online archive of findings from research studies that were funded by Americans' tax dollars?
That way, members of the public could keep up to date on the latest health findings by reading about discoveries that they paid for and would otherwise be unable to access. To ensure academic publishers could recoup any investment made by publishing research in traditional print journals, scientists could wait 12 months before making the research available to the public, but no more.
The policy was voluntary at first, then made mandatory — much to the consternation of commercial science publishers. (Make no mistake — scholarly publishing is a significant profit center, for publishers if not authors. A Disrupted Higher-Ed System - Next. The “disruption” of the higher-ed market is a popular refrain these days. Rising tuition prices and student debt have left many wondering if the current model is indeed broken and whether those like Harvard’s Clay Christensen are right when they say that innovations in course delivery will eventually displace established players. What exactly those innovations will look like remains a matter of debate. One view from Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, envisions a future in which every industry will be disrupted and “rebuilt with people at the center.” In this recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Sandberg talked specifically about the gaming industry, which has been upended by the popularity of social-gaming venues, such as Words With Friends and Farmville.
But what if we applied her people-centered vision to higher ed? We all know that’s one of the key drivers of rising college costs. Just look at the last month: Return to Top. Alex Peake's "Code Hero": How To Scale Education The Right Way. In Silicon Valley, one often hears the question, "Does it scale? " What a technologist means by this is: How can a specific technological innovation be applied in a broad manner to affect a wide range of people? If Google only searched two websites it wouldn't be terribly useful. But because Google scaled effectively to search the entire Internet, it became extremely engaging. Technologists wonder the same thing about education.
And projects like the Khan Academy have risen to prominence because they scale--a single video can be watched by millions of people. But while it's wonderful to give millions of people access to knowledge, we should be careful when scaling education. Often educational experiences don't scale. I become frustrated when people talk about OpenCourseWare or the Khan Academy as revolutionary. My friend Alex Peake, a fellow Hackademic who skipped college entirely, has built a game called Code Hero to help you learn how to code. [Image: Flickr user maniwa_pa] Considering College During a Recession? Think Again. Culture Teaching Strategies Flickr:BradleyGee “I’m going back to school.” It’s a common decision when someone wants a job promotion or a career change.
And that’s especially the case during an economic downturn. But as the cost of college tuition skyrockets and the burden of student loans outpace other forms of consumer debt, going back to school might not be such a great plan. And that’s the case author Kio Stark is arguing. Helping independent learners build networks so they can access a professional or learning community. Stark’s book will join a number of others, including Uncollege‘s Dale Stephens’ Hacking Your Education (due out from Penguin in 2013) and Anna Kamenetz’s Edupunk Guide, which are making a similar argument: college may no longer be necessary.
Stark’s own background makes this project particularly compelling. “College didn’t used to be about getting a job,” she said. In some ways, that’s easier said than done. Related Explore: Higher Education. Adult Degree Completion Strategies, 2010 to 2014: Grantee Abstracts – Lumina Foundation. Like Peter Thiel's Fellows, Sebastian Thrun Dropped Out, Hacked Education, Too. Wars have been fought in pursuit of it. Humans have been killed in its name. We have struggled because of it. It has been the object of our desires for millennia. And today, thanks to the Internet, we have more of more of it, particularly with regard to education. It is power. Then in 1999, MIT announced they were putting their course online. Last fall, Stanford made the bold announcement that two of their courses would be taught online--artificial intelligence and machine learning classes.
But they did, and by anyone's measure, the courses were a wild success. It's a big deal for a professor to dump a university. We probably won't see a wave of professors quitting universities quite yet, but I wouldn't be surprised to see more experts forge their own paths soon. While I certainly don't think that teaching courses on the Internet is the panacea that will cure all educational ills, seeing professors forge their own path is an inspiring first step. After his talk, I asked him. A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups - Technology. By Nick DeSantis Harsh economic realities mean trouble for college leaders. But where administrators perceive an impending crisis, investors increasingly see opportunity. In recent years, venture capitalists have poured millions into education-technology start-ups, trying to cash in on a market they see as ripe for a digital makeover.
And lately, those wagers have been getting bigger. Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the National Venture Capital Association. "The investing community believes that the Internet is hitting education, that education is having its Internet moment," said Jose Ferreira, founder of the interactive-learning company Knewton. The scramble to make bets on a tech-infused college revolution has led to so many new companies that even Mr. Udacity, Udemy, and UniversityNow all have plans to revolutionize online learning. More Money in Play Mr. Evidence Framework | Office of Educational Technology. Change happens big in technology and it happens fast. And when public money is being spent and students’ futures are at stake, it is crucial that changes also happen smart.
Our new report, Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World, calls for smart change by presenting educators, policymakers, and funders with an expanded view of evidence approaches and sources of data that can help them with decision-making about learning resources. The report describes an iterative R&D process, with rapid design cycles and built-in feedback loops—one familiar in industry but less so in education (however, the report provides numerous examples of applications in education). An iterative R&D process enables early-stage innovations to be rapidly deployed, widely adopted, and—through continuous improvement processes—refined and enhanced over time. This means that data collection and analysis can occur continuously and that users are integral to the improvement process. What’s On the Horizon in Higher Education. Big Ideas Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flickr: Dexterwas How will college life be different in five years than it is today?
In its recently released 2012 NMC Horizon Report on Higher Education, New Media Consortium predicts there may be more gesture-based computing, and lots of inter-connected (and Internet-connected) objects packed with useful information. Video games will become more commonplace in classrooms, and Big Data will drive big decisions on the part of students, faculty, and the foundations and companies in the education sphere.
The Horizon Report crystallizes a lot of what we’re witnessing in education. What the report does focus on are six technologies to watch, categorized in the near, middle, and foreseeable future. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. MOBILE APPS. Some institutions are creating programs to teach student entrepreneurs how to create apps from scratch and to market them. Flickr:Chirantan Patnaik TABLET COMPUTING. GAME-BASED LEARNING. LEARNING ANALYTICS. Daniel Choo. Buck Goldstein: Academia at a Crossroads -- Can Our Great Universities Lead in a Time of Need.
Pulitzer Prize winner David Rohde's recent article on our efforts at UNC to turn our university into an engine of innovation argues that America's research universities can make a profound difference in the battle to rebuild the country's economy and its middle class. With over 250 billion in endowment, research universities are the crown jewels of our society. Rhode's plea that these magnificent institutions do more to generate economic activity while attacking society's biggest problems mirror arguments my co-author Holden Thorp and I make in our book. As Rhode reports, at UNC we are attempting to create a campus culture that focuses on solving important problems and in so doing generate economic activity and new jobs. Who could be against this? It sounds like motherhood and apple pie. Criticism comes from two directions. Successfully responding to internal criticism of efforts to increase the impact of universities requires a more nuanced approach.
Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know. Venture Capital in Education: New Technology and New Solutions. At last week’s SXSW interactive conference, blogger Betsy Corcoran of EdSurge convened a panel discussion among venture capitalists on the future of education technology: “ Classroom 2020: VCs and the Education Revolution ”. Participants included Mitch Kapor of Kapor Capital, Phillip Bronner of Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Rob Hutter of LearnCapital . Education startups are “hot” right now, with stories on TechCrunch , big funding rounds and pop culture attention . But what really matters is not tech hype, but the need: Better solutions for schools, universities and workplace training. At the SXSW panel, the participants set the stage by enumerating the social factors that drive their focus on education: American students’ abysmal performance in science, math and engineering, rising wage inequality and decreasing numbers of jobs available to less-skilled adults.
These investors have a broader vision of investing. There are three components of the education system: Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality by Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin Malik, Ashley Lee.