The Value of Internships: A Dose of the Real World in High School. Www.nmc.org/pdf/2014-horizon-he-preview. Educators. Curriculum Materials - Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The Ultimate Student Guide to Navigating the Writing MOOC. So you are not a confident writer, but you want to take a MOOC that includes several papers.
Can you survive? Or maybe you have college plans but writing is your biggest weakness. Can a writing MOOC help? As someone who has taught writing at the college level for more than 20 years, I have been asking myself similar questions. I have taught, and enjoyed teaching, hybrid courses. Pedagogically, writing instruction and assessment in MOOCs is not as advanced as the technology.
The core pedagogy of most college courses is that writing is a “process.” Webcasts. Five Powerful Feedback Principles That Improve Student Learning - Philadelphia, PA. College 101: Guide to University & College Admissions. The Crisis in Higher Education. A hundred years ago, higher education seemed on the verge of a technological revolution.
Making Excellence Inclusive: Higher Education's LGBTQ Contexts. In the past forty years, higher education has made great strides in building campus and classroom spaces that are more fully welcoming of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people, as well as of academic explorations related to gender and sexuality.
The past few years alone have seen the founding of the advocacy and support group LGBTQ Presidents in Higher Education, the Expanding the Circle conference on Creating an Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ Students and Studies, and new programs and courses on gender and sexuality throughout college curricula. Combined with important policy changes, initiatives like these are not only creating warmer climates for LGBTQ students, faculty, and staff, but also shaping healthier environments for robust discourse among students across diverse identity groups and shifting terminologies. This issue of Diversity & Democracy explores how higher education is creating classroom and campus forums that engage with LGBTQ issues. Why Students Need Personal Learning Portfolios More than We Do. This post explores Personal Learning Portfolios [PLPs], an extension of a Personal Learning Environment.
I review briefly PLPs for professionals, but focus on the potential and promise that PLPs hold for our students. I wrote recently about Personal Learning Environments [PLE], Personal Learning Networks [PLN] and the need for educators to develop both as a means to support their professional and personal growth and learning. We Need a New Kind of Learner. In her recent TED Book, Save Our Science: How to Inspire a New Generation of Scientists, Ainissa Ramirez makes an impassioned call for a recommitment to improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in our schools and throughout our society.
The post below is an excerpt from the book's Introduction. Listen now, for the sound that forevermore separates the old from the new:“Beep ... beep ... beep... beep ....” — NBC radio announcer introducing the first transmitted sounds from the Soviet Sputnik satellite (Oct. 4, 1957) Just as the first faint electronic sounds from an orbiting satellite marked a transformative advance in international science more than a half-century ago, we are now beginning to hear new signals of a similar dramatic and important shift with our children, their schools, and our educational system. eLearn Magazine.
Revolution Hits the Universities. How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It. Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one of its campuses — a move that spells the end of higher education as we know it.
Lower-division courses are the financial backbone of many part-time faculty and departments (especially the humanities). As someone who has taught large courses at a University of California, I can assure readers that my job could have easily been automated. OER Commons. ‘The List’ for Educators: How to Find Almost Anything in Less than Three Clicks. ‘The List’ that provides educational resources at the finger tips—no searching, in less than three clicks—find instructive, rich content for instructional or personal use.
Something fresh, a collection of links that will direct readers to sites brimming with quality content in a breadth of disciplines. While participating in the MOOC over the past two weeks, Open Educational Resources 12 [OER] and reviewing comments from educators from various sources, I realized that finding open education resources is not only time-consuming, but can be a daunting task. The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice. Our College Crisis: A PowerPoint Presentation by Bill Gates - Jordan Weissmann. HIST3812 Games & Simulation for Historians. A Tenative Course Schedule & Outline « Electric Archaeology. The aim of this course is to explore ways of expressing historical narratives through interactive digital media and simulations.
This does not mean that you have to be a programmer. There are many roles that need to be filled when we enter into this realm. The final project is the creation of a detailed game/simulation design document, working in groups of five. These documents will be posted online and brought to the attention of the history & games community. Play The Past. Press.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262515016_Open_Access_Edition.pdf. Resource Center - Education - Learning: Theory and Practice - Playing and Learning. Playing and Learning by Judy Diamond As a graduate student at the University of Colorado, I studied how young coyotes learn about their social and physical worlds.
100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Adjunct Project - Adjunct Professors. Accidental Activist Collects National Data on Adjuncts' Working Conditions - Faculty.