Fate and technology have pummeled many professions since 1963, from bookseller to travel agent to auto worker. But teachers have resisted the powerful forces reorganizing industry. The dream of the teacherless classroom has remained just that.
Today the dream has returned. Thanks to broadening Internet access, advances in multimedia and the market potential of millions of historically underserved learners among the developing world’s youth and the rich world’s adults, modern versions of the doughnut building are flowering globally: systems through which chunks of teaching can be “scaled up,” in business jargon, and beamed to hundreds of thousands worldwide.
Curriki is a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. It includes an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.
Leslie Whitaker, a guest blogger for Wired Campus, is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Previously she worked as a reporter for Time magazine. She reflects on what happened when her class blogged about the Fort Hood shootings.
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Mendeley, a Web service that lets users organize and share research papers, recently announced that it has surpassed 100,000 users, and that its database now includes some 8 million works. The announcement has generated a lot of hype for the fledgling company. Mendeley says it is doubling in size every 10 weeks.
Stanford professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition. The Net’s most celebrated lawyer cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the “ASCAP cartel” in his argument for reviving our creative culture in this TEDTalk.
In this brief, but fast-paced talk, Lessig outlines two cultures – the read-only culture (RO) and the read/write culture (RW). In stating his case, Lessig cites these classic examples from the remix culture:
The technologies featured in the 2009 Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that represent what the Advisory Board considers likely timeframes for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, research, or creative applications. The first adoption horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream of institutions within the next year; the second, within two to three years; and the third, within four to five years.
When Mark Van Dyke, Ph.D., signed on with Marist College five years ago, he knew that online education would play an integral role in his new position. Conversant in basic computer applications, Van Dyke had used technology as a management tool, but never for teaching or learning.
The famous chief executive has started a management institute at Chancellor University that will offer an affordable, rigorous M.B.A. program. Can a high-profile program backed by a legendary business magnate lure students?
While students and faculty seem to agree on the importance of technology in education, the two groups do not agree on how well it’s being implemented. According to new research released Monday, only 38 percent of students indicated that their instructors “understand technology and fully integrate it into their classes.” Students also rated that lack of understanding as “the biggest obstacle to classroom technology integration.”
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