November 20, 2009
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.
[Source: New York Times]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 20, 2009
Like iTunes™ for research papers – a free research management tool for desktop & web
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.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 10, 2009
Plenty of colleges have a presence in Second Life. Pennsylvania State University is taking that a step further. Academic advisers at the university’s online campus are now required to be available for meetings with students in the virtual world every week.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 8, 2009
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.
- One Year or Less: Mobiles
- One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
- Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
- Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
- Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
- Four to Five Years: Smart Objects
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 6, 2009
A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project - Social Isolation and New Technology - found that Americans’ friendship networks are shrinking — but not because people are retreating into online worlds.
[Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project]
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November 4, 2009
On six campuses, the music industry is quietly experimenting with a service intended to lure students away from illegal downloads.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 4, 2009
A new, specially constructed University of Minnesota program in health sciences will test models for teaching and tenure and track student success.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 1, 2009
As an independent consulting organization the Gilfus Education Group predicts the following top five trends in education innovation:
- Emergence of robust “Enterprise” Open Source Learning Management Systems.
- Combination of academic and administrative functionality into a more cohesive experience.
- Proliferation of “Software-as-a-Service” administrative and academic applications.
- Growth of independent content object repositories to support teaching and learning.
- Introduction of successful learning applications from other countries into North America.
[Source: Gilfus Education Group]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
November 1, 2009
The City of Los Angeles has voted to overhaul its e-mail system, converting it all to Gmail. … Los Angeles Moves To Gmail And ‘Cloud’ Computing.
[Source: NPR]
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