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  1. Jul 2017
    1. And what then of those possibly unmeasurable learning goals? Those transformations, the sources of subsequent life revelations? If our resources of time and energy are spent on measurable goals and student achievements, what happens to the ineffable outcomes? And most significantly, what are we telling the public that higher education achieves? This content, those skills. Period.

      Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

    2. Ten years ago, Richard Shavelson wrote that accreditation pressures could lead us to focus on easily formulated, standardized, and measured student outcomes and to neglect "personal and social responsibility" skills — "personal, civic, moral, social, and intercultural knowledge and actions." He warned that if we do not measure those, "they will drop from sight." If we neglect the ineffable outcomes in our efforts to understand what college is for, and what we accomplish in higher education, they could disappear from our attention, our aspirations, and eventually from our teaching.

      value of personal development vs. measured outcomes.

    1. Attention to detail is a way of caring for our digital students, and validating their experience as online learners. Likewise, thinking through the ways that our course will be different because it’s online, or mostly online, and reflecting that in our planning, our syllabus, and our approach to teaching is the first step in welcoming students to the work we’ll do together.

      Reminder this is a holistic approach to course redesign for hybrid/online offering, including the syllabus.

    2. A class is a process, an independent organism with its own goals and dynamics. It is always something more than even the most imaginative lesson plan can predict.”

      How much influence might we have when working with faculty to consider statements or at least approaches like this?

    3. Similarly, a syllabus should—just might—show our teaching approach, our expectations for the kind of class we hope for, rather than simply telling students what our rules are and how to get an A. This is an opportunity for transparency about why we teach, why we love our subjects, why we believe students will succeed. The syllabus is our first, best opportunity to strike the right chord for an entire term.

      Most of us have probably written off the syllabus as an opportunity or tool to invite students into a course, to intentionally set a tone for a course.

    1. If you have more than 3200 tweets, the free and Open Source Twitter Archive Eraser (TAE) is the tool you’re looking for. Unfortunately, this only works for Windows. I’ve not yet found a similar solution for Mac or Linux. If you know of one, please share this in the comments.
    1. Over the period in which the US has reduced public funding per student, the pattern has entrenched itself. It’s too early in Great Britain’s experiment with tuition-based university funding to see the divergence - but under the current model it will happen. The real difference between the US and British systems is that Great Britain can still easily fix its higher education mistake.

      So, no way out for the US at this point...

    1. The goal of this convening is togather and prepare faculty to launch discipline-specificlearning communities focused on sharing best practices for using adaptive courseware and active learning pedagogies to support studen

      testing

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    1. There was an automatically generated screenshot of each site, linking to that domain. You could filter the sites based on pre-determined categories. You could also click into two different views of each site that broke down even more data, such as how many words, URLS, and images were used in each blog post, and how many themes and categories were used on the site.
    1. "You shall not download any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content.You shall not copy, reproduce, make available online or electronically transmit, publish, adapt, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content. YouTube and its licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content."
  2. Jun 2017
    1. education as a democratic public sphere is also crucial as a theoretical tool and political resource for fighting against neoliberal modes of governance that have reduced faculty all over the United States to adjuncts and part-time workers with few or no benefits. These workers bear the brunt of a labor process that is as exploitative as it is disempowering.
    2. Critical pedagogy is organized around the struggle over agency, values and social relations within diverse contexts, resources and histories. Its aim is producing students who can think critically, be considerate of others, take risks, think dangerously and imagine a future that extends and deepens what it means to be an engaged citizen capable of living in a substantive democracy.
    3. This is a particularly important issue at a time when higher education is being defunded and students are being punished with huge tuition hikes and financial debts, while being subjected to a pedagogy of repression that has taken hold under the banner of reactionary and oppressive educational reforms pushed by right-wing billionaires and hedge fund managers.

      Whoa.

    1. 2014 Babson survey findings, in which only 2.7 percent of faculty members identified cost as one the top three factors, compared to 70 percent in this survey.

      This group is likely much more informed about textbook costs and OER than those in the Babson study.

    1. esearch methods, specifically constructivist grounded theory(Charmaz,2014) to explore these questions. Grounded theory method, originally developed by Glaser and Strauss (1967), aims to build useful theory from empirical observations; ‘ground’ refers to the grounding of findings in rigorous qualitative inquiry and analysis. Underpinned by interpretivistepistemology
    2. use the following definition of OEP in this study: collaborative practices which include the creation, use and reuse of OER, as well as pedagogical practices employing participatory technologies and social networks for interaction, peer-learning, knowledge creation, and empowerment of l
    3. audiences.” This change in the conception of openness is often described as the difference between open as gratis(free of cost) and open as libre(enabling legal reuse) (Win

      gratis vs. free

    1. We need a short letter that the committee can read that will substantiate our choice, they said

      I get it, but have to ask, why don't "committees" ask for the same substantiation when a faculty member chooses a "random" publisher textbook? ALL publisher textbooks are "high quality?"

    2. I’ve been to 55 schools in 11 months, and I meet a lot of people. I’ve started to think of these conversations with strangers as my professional development—I can learn something from everyone everywhere.

      An amazing, rare and valuable perspective.

  3. May 2017
    1. "For years, Plymouth State University has partnered with local businesses to involve students in real-life environments," said Robyn Parker, dean and faculty member in the current College of Business Administration and cluster development leader. "For example, each year a group of students works with the Common Man restaurant to develop new ice cream flavors. Students from various disciplines work in teams to research, design marketing materials, create business plans, manage budgets, develop and test their products, and introduce their ice cream flavors."
    2. "Integrated clusters allow us to provide the type of education, beginning at the freshman level, that integrates the learning process in such a way as to create opportunities to interact with our communities," said Donald L. Birx, PSU president. "Using open laboratories, we can work across disciplines and with community members to solve problems and challenges that give students insights into how education is relevant to the needs of the world."
  4. Apr 2017
    1. Again, what is problematic is the shifting balance of emphasis that takes publichigher education away from expanding educational and economic opportuni-ties for underserved populations.

      Increased access for whom?

      dual education leads to dual economies, dual societies

    1. Those with incomes up to $30,000 have no discretionary income to put towards college costs, yet they are expected to pay on average $6,057 per year to attend a two-year college and $9,310 to attend a public four-year college. For stu-dents with family incomes between $30,001 and $48,000, two-year college costs require about a third (32%) of discretionary income, and four-year college costs require more than half (53%) of their discretionary income.

      stunning

    1. Open pedagogy is not a collection of pedagogical procedures applied in class that then result in the same outcomes of any other pedagogy.

      not a collection of practices...

    1. IMVs involving the demonstration, illustration, and presentation of key terms, knowledge, skills, and resources can help students understand important procedures, structures, or mechanisms in previously problematic content.

      what to cover in a video. reason for video

    1. We were surprised to see that the new group, the people who viewed the video lecture, did show an increase in mind wandering over time, but the group who viewed it live in class did not.

      live vs. recorded

    1. Today Lumen announced a major new partnership with Follett. Follett operates more than 1,200 local campus bookstores, and they’ve made significant investments in tools, processes, and people to make it easy for faculty to review and adopt course materials.
    1. As we strive for institutional standards of academic excellence, we detach the rigor of scientific inquiry from accessibility to a larger audience outside of our disciplines.

      An increasingly common catch-22?

    1. Informal and open education has been largely overlooked, probably due to social and cultural stigmas attached to learning from places besides traditional campuses. Our education system ends where autodidactism (self-learning) commences: we are content with spoon-feeding our students from textbooks, with no focus on extensive learning. Students learn from topics, as opposed to problems (problem-based learning). It cannot be emphasised enough that research stems from problem-solving buttressed by necessary instruction.

    1. Beyond Websites

      Not the tool or the product (both are valuable), but the greater experience for students to understand how the web works, what caused it to break, and how to work collaboratively to fix it. All big learning opps.

    1. Portland Business Journal Provides access to Portland Business Journal and Book of Lists. Also includes other city business journals. PSU faculty/staff/students please click here for login information. Walk-in users please contact the Reference Desk. Wall Street Journal Offers full text articles in The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition, 1984-present) and the online edition (2010-present ), excluding stock quotes and classified ads. Updated daily.

      PSU access to WSJ and PBJ

  5. Mar 2017