Babson Survey Research Group report on online education in U.S. higher education
Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States
1.02.2015
Online Collaborative Learning ... how do we really make it work?
Here is an article discussing the theory underpinning/frameworks that can inform and guide what online collaborative learning could really look like!
2.02.2014
Two giants of online learning discuss the future of education ...excerpts from a TED conversation
I am so happy that ONLINE Education has finally caught the eye of lots of tech folks wilining to do some tinkering. It's about time!!
Here is a link to a conversation with Salman Khan of Khan Academy and Sebastian Thur of Udacity...
Here is a link to a conversation with Salman Khan of Khan Academy and Sebastian Thur of Udacity...
11.09.2012
When creating an online course...
Here is a sampling for a collection of video clips by professors who
teach online. Folks have told me these short clips have been very
helpful to think about when setting up or teaching an online course for
the first time. You can click here to go to youtube and see the series.
Enjoy!
Here also is a great read by Dee Fink about creating online courses.
Enjoy!
Here also is a great read by Dee Fink about creating online courses.
5.23.2012
4.27.2012
3.01.2012
2.24.2012
Mini Grants are GREAT ! We get to do great projects!
Here is a link and the powerpoint for a project that allows the students to review a procedure and use flip cameras to film themselves doing the procedure. This allows the students to reflect on the procedure and make sure they are accurately doing the procedure to pass the test. The students find that being able to review their process, keeps them shooting until they do the procedure well enough to pass the test to do that particular task.
http://www.slideshare.net/SUNYUlsterInstructs/vet-tech-flipsmini-grant
http://www.slideshare.net/SUNYUlsterInstructs/vet-tech-flipsmini-grant
1.23.2012
As we scramble to prepare our students, what are the jobs that they need to be prepared for?
The recovery needs to be revolutionary, because our most recent financial meltdown laid bare a fundamental change in the US economy. Since sometime in the 1970s—economists generally agree on the trend, if not the exact date—the US has been increasingly divided into two groups: those whose economic fortunes grow and those whose wages stay stagnant. This divide has many potential causes, including the rise in global trade, technological advances, the decline in unions, and slowing growth in education. But the full impact of these shifts was long masked, first by the stock market bubble and then by a massive credit and housing bubble, which flooded the economy with money we hadn’t really earned. For nearly 20 years we felt richer than we were.
11.29.2011
The Khan Academy...wanna weigh in?
Here is a link to a WIRED article about them. If you ever wanted to re-think how you taught math, this might be something to read...
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/
11.11.2011
Brainstorming Super cool tool
I just learned about this really great tool that allows you to make post-its on a page.
http://www.wallwisher.com/
http://www.wallwisher.com/
Online Programs, Courses are dissected by the NY Times
I was recently at SUNY's DOODLE meeting. DOODLe standing for Directors of Online LEarning. The buzz was about providing "concierge" service for students taking online programs and courses. Online programs accross the country are being scared into doing much introspection with the crazy competition of the for-profit institutions that will not even be named here.
Read on my friends.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/the-online-college-crapshoot.html
Read on my friends.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/the-online-college-crapshoot.html
7.18.2011
SUNY Ulster Online Selected for SUNY Learning Network
Saugerties Post Star
SUNY Ulster Online Selected for SUNY Learning Network are: Professor Shirley Birmingham, who teaches Introduction to Exceptional Children; Professor Jim Hobbs, General Psychology; Professor William Sheldon, Introduction to Microeconomics; and Professor Sean Nixon, History of 20th Century Design. ...
SUNY Ulster Online Selected for SUNY Learning Network are: Professor Shirley Birmingham, who teaches Introduction to Exceptional Children; Professor Jim Hobbs, General Psychology; Professor William Sheldon, Introduction to Microeconomics; and Professor Sean Nixon, History of 20th Century Design. ...
4.08.2011
FERPA and the Classroom using Social Media
The issue of FERPA rears its head over and again and sometimes it seems to be unnecessary. I for one, am glad when it comes to creating an interactive class using this powerful medium we can look beyond the grasp of FERPA.
Read this article, Its great.
FERPA is one of the most misunderstood regulations in education. It is commonly assumed that FERPA requires all student coursework to be kept private at all times, and thus prevents the use of social media in the classroom, but this is wrong. FERPA does not prevent instructors from assigning students to create public content as part of their course requirements. If it did, then video documentaries produced in a communications class and shown on TV or the Web, or public art shows of student work from an art class, would be illegal. As one higher education lawyer put it:
FERPA cannot be interpreted as building a total and complete wall between the school and the community. We would have really bad schools if that happened and very disengaged students. This is a good example of where the lawyers can’t get in the way of the learning. Podcasting is a fabulous learning tool. Digital storytelling, amazing. I love Voicethread, as do thousands of educators around the country. Sharing is an important part of learning and the ability to share has increased exponentially in the past couple decades. Some students right here in Kentucky are sharing with students in Brazil every day, for instance. FERPA cannot be extended to prohibit all of this sharing.” (Bathon, 2009) Go to article
Read this article, Its great.
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| Great Website and link to FERPA article |
FERPA is one of the most misunderstood regulations in education. It is commonly assumed that FERPA requires all student coursework to be kept private at all times, and thus prevents the use of social media in the classroom, but this is wrong. FERPA does not prevent instructors from assigning students to create public content as part of their course requirements. If it did, then video documentaries produced in a communications class and shown on TV or the Web, or public art shows of student work from an art class, would be illegal. As one higher education lawyer put it:
FERPA cannot be interpreted as building a total and complete wall between the school and the community. We would have really bad schools if that happened and very disengaged students. This is a good example of where the lawyers can’t get in the way of the learning. Podcasting is a fabulous learning tool. Digital storytelling, amazing. I love Voicethread, as do thousands of educators around the country. Sharing is an important part of learning and the ability to share has increased exponentially in the past couple decades. Some students right here in Kentucky are sharing with students in Brazil every day, for instance. FERPA cannot be extended to prohibit all of this sharing.” (Bathon, 2009) Go to article
2.28.2011
Curriculum Design ...making a course roadmap helps see the big picture
Design, deliver, achieve results, Course Roadmap Hope Windle Here is a great way to map out your course with a bird's eye view.
http://www.slideshare.net/windleh/design-deliver-achieve-results-course-roadmap-hope-windle
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http://www.slideshare.net/windleh/design-deliver-achieve-results-course-roadmap-hope-windle
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Are we augmenting or actually just teaching?
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| When I searched for images of "Augmenting Education with Technology, who should pop up but the Cable Guy! |
SUNY Ulster is a vibrant community of learners distinguished by academic excellence, collaboration, innovation, service, and responsible use of resources.
As a public, comprehensive two-year institution dedicate...d to providing affordable, accessible education, we work within an ever-changing environment to:
* Prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions;
* Prepare students for success in college and in the workforce;
* Provide enrichment and lifelong learning opportunities;
* Augment learning through the integration and application of emerging technologies;
* Prepare students to live and work in a global society;
* Play an active role in economic development; and
* Enhance the quality of life for residents of Ulster County
Augment makes it sound added on. The technology for many courses and content has become the primary tools to deliver the content. The powerpoint, the access to ANGEL the technology is part of everyday learning. To augment seems it is about adding extra umph, what many professors tell me they are finding is that the technology is the conduit or tool to deliver the information, not an after thought to make it better.Please Re- word this section.
http://www.adobe.com/produ
its about how the tool is used. We need to think about Affordance...what tool for what task for active learning to take place. Ulster needs to commit to revisit how the learning happens with the opportunity of various approaches(online and face to face) and not take one approach to another medium without researching the learning strengths and opportunities of each approach.
12.02.2010
SUNY Ulster students collaborate online internationally! Make comics, have fun!
Here is a wonderful way for students to collaborate internationally with meaning. The lesson plan gets students to look at the media and how they find news..or how news finds them. They read a graphic novel, and learn how comics work, by making their own with PIXTON!
They also have communicated with professors saved through the Scholar Rescue Fund. We have presented the following information at several conferences with Rebecca Smolar from Globalization 101 and the SUNY Global Center
and Levin Institute.
11.09.2010
Love the International collaboration mash up with Social media tools
Globalization 101
November 4, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- In an effort to deepen their understanding of how technology can help different cultures understand each other better, David L. Stoloff last year decided to give his students a taste of peer review -- and outsourcing.
Presenting on Wednesday at the annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, Stoloff, a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, described an experiment in which he used social media to teach students in a first-year course on educational technology a lesson about how they can use social media to change how they do amateur cross-cultural research on the Web.
Read the following article
November 4, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. -- In an effort to deepen their understanding of how technology can help different cultures understand each other better, David L. Stoloff last year decided to give his students a taste of peer review -- and outsourcing.
Presenting on Wednesday at the annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning, Stoloff, a professor at Eastern Connecticut State University, described an experiment in which he used social media to teach students in a first-year course on educational technology a lesson about how they can use social media to change how they do amateur cross-cultural research on the Web.
Read the following article
10.12.2010
Five Tips to start using Social Media
Using Social Media doesn't have to be overwhelming!
Social Media for Ellenville Chamber of Commerce
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10.04.2010
The World is Open! Bonk joined us for a great presentation
We had a great Rondout Ulster Connect event this past Saturday.
Our featured speaker was Dr. Curt Bonk. Here is a clip where he is speaking about "Trends on the Horizon," Dr. Bonk notes future developments in education and their potential impact on teaching. Points covered range from mobile learning and cloud computing to creating Personal Learning Environments.
http://www.youtube.com/TravelinEdMan#p/c/26/n4f8859BQ5g
His book is chock full of great ideas.
Our featured speaker was Dr. Curt Bonk. Here is a clip where he is speaking about "Trends on the Horizon," Dr. Bonk notes future developments in education and their potential impact on teaching. Points covered range from mobile learning and cloud computing to creating Personal Learning Environments.
http://www.youtube.com/TravelinEdMan#p/c/26/n4f8859BQ5g
His book is chock full of great ideas.
9.20.2010
NY TImes magazine all devoted to Education + Technology = PLAY
Interesting to read all kinds of approaches that can be incorporated into the classroom. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/09/19/magazine/index.html?ref=magazine
9.13.2010
9.07.2010
Jonathan Kozol reminds us why teaching is so important and beautiful.
It's the birthday of journalist and activist Jonathan Kozol, (books by this author) born in Boston (1936). He worked as public school teacher in Boston and has written many books about the sad state of public education in this country, and about how segregated our schools still are, all based on his own experiences in classrooms and working in poor neighborhoods. His books include Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991) and Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995), about kids in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx. He said: "Of all my books, Amazing Grace means the most to me. It took the most out of me and was the hardest to write, because it was the hardest to live through these experiences. I felt it would initially be seen as discouraging but, ultimately, sensitive readers would see the resilient and transcendent qualities ... that it would be seen as a book about the elegant theology of children."
In his recent book Letters to a Young Teacher (2007), he combines his opinions on vouchers, No Child Left Behind, and racial segregation, with constant reminders about why teaching is so important and beautiful. Courtesy of the Writer's Almanac.
Kozol said, "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
In his recent book Letters to a Young Teacher (2007), he combines his opinions on vouchers, No Child Left Behind, and racial segregation, with constant reminders about why teaching is so important and beautiful. Courtesy of the Writer's Almanac.
Kozol said, "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
9.05.2010
Social Networking has a new life as fund raiser
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/business/05proto.html
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners. ...Ed Norton knows that a majority of people who now donate to charity don’t do so online; they write checks. But he and his partners contend that Crowdrise, with its mix of edginess, silliness and good-humored competition, can change that habit, especially for young people.
Crowdrise aims to make raising money for a cause not just easy, but also fun. Setting up a page to support something you care about takes less than a minute. Then, friends and family can be invited to be sponsors by donating any amount of money, large or small. You don’t have to run a marathon. You can volunteer at a soup kitchen or do whatever strikes your fancy. But Ms. Wittenberg, who has already sent her e-mail to 33,000 runners based in the United States and will soon send one to the 27,000 or so based elsewhere, hopes that anyone running in New York on Nov. 7 will use Crowdrise to do it for charity.
Once your Crowdrise page is up, anyone can donate to it and join your team.
Crowdrise isn’t the only site that helps with online fund-raising. There are a handful, with FirstGiving.com among the best known. But Crowdrise is different, its founders and users say, because it seeks to build community in much the way that Facebook does.
LATE last month, tens of thousands of runners who are registered for this year’s New York City Marathon got an e-mail from Mary Wittenberg, the president and chief executive of New York Road Runners. ...Ed Norton knows that a majority of people who now donate to charity don’t do so online; they write checks. But he and his partners contend that Crowdrise, with its mix of edginess, silliness and good-humored competition, can change that habit, especially for young people.
Crowdrise aims to make raising money for a cause not just easy, but also fun. Setting up a page to support something you care about takes less than a minute. Then, friends and family can be invited to be sponsors by donating any amount of money, large or small. You don’t have to run a marathon. You can volunteer at a soup kitchen or do whatever strikes your fancy. But Ms. Wittenberg, who has already sent her e-mail to 33,000 runners based in the United States and will soon send one to the 27,000 or so based elsewhere, hopes that anyone running in New York on Nov. 7 will use Crowdrise to do it for charity.
Once your Crowdrise page is up, anyone can donate to it and join your team.
Crowdrise isn’t the only site that helps with online fund-raising. There are a handful, with FirstGiving.com among the best known. But Crowdrise is different, its founders and users say, because it seeks to build community in much the way that Facebook does.
8.31.2010
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