More than half frequently or always consult Wikipedia for course-related research, says this report.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
Students Use Wikipedia Early and Often
17 March 2010
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Stanford student survey finds iPhone users hooked and happy
2 March 2010The San Jose Mercury News reports that a survey of 200 students found that about a third worried about becoming iPhone addicts and more than a third heard concerns that they used their iPhones too much. About 75 percent of those surveyed said owning an iPhone made them happier.
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Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next
24 February 2010The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.
Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials – the American teens and twenty-somethings currently making the passage into adulthood – have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and receptive to new ideas and ways of living.
This report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is a part of a series of reports undertaken by the Pew Research Center that highlight the attitudes and behaviors of the Millennial generation, a cohort they define here as adults ages 18 to 29.
How Millennial Are You? Take the Quiz…
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Coursecasting and Class Attendance – Does Year in Program Matter?
18 February 2010A recent study explored the effect that providing lecture recordings to two different classes of Biology students would have on attendance.
[Source: Bioscience Education]
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World’s Largest Digital Camera
10 February 2010At 3.2-billion-pixels, a new telescope on a mountaintop in Cerro Panchón, Chile will map the universe and remap the way academic astronomers work, giving small and community colleges access to the data.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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SlideShare Channels – Pew Internet
3 February 2010Slideshare – a website for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs – has just added channels, spaces on SlideShare for companies and brands. The Pew Internet and American Life Project is one of the first and has shared a lot of their research reports about the internet & internet usage.
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mLearning Project in 2010 Horizon Report
20 January 2010F&M’s mLearning Project is highlighted in the 2010 Horizon Report:
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/chapters/mobile-computing/#7
The annual Horizon Report, a joint undertaking of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC), identifies six technologies that will be key for teaching and learning in higher education.
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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs
2 January 2010
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Matching Teaching Style to Learning Style May Not Help Students – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education
16 December 2009“Learning styles” research has been vastly oversold as a teaching tool, four psychologists argue in a new paper.
Chart: 4 Different Models of How Students Learn
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Technologies to watch -2009 Horizon Report
8 November 2009The 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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