Tracking Online Education in the United States

Babson Survey Research Group report on online education in U.S. higher education

Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States

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! 

http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/11/28/two-design-models-for-online-collaborative-learning-same-or-different/

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...

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.

FIPSE COMANI Conference at Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara Mexico

Verano exchange

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Comani

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Guad2012 2

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Blended Workshop - June 6, 2012

Blended Workshop - June 6, 2012

Motivating the Un-Motivated

Karen Helgers, Mini Grant Presentation- Using Clickers to improve student understanding

Using clickers to improve student understanding

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Chris Marx, Mini Grant Presentation- Marketing Learning Center Resources at the BRC

Marketing learning center resources at the brc

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Kari Mack, Mini Grant Presentation- Student Kiosks in the Library

Student kiosks in the library – guided autonomy

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NEW Horizon Report 2012 ...worth a peek

THE END OF TEACHING (as we know it)

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NEW Horizon Report 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

Vet tech flips_mini grant

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As we scramble to prepare our students, what are the jobs that they need to be prepared for?

As the US economy slowly rebuilds and the smoke from four years of charred capital starts to dissipate, we can discern the shape of the next 20 years of job growth. What we see is an economy unlike any we’ve ever known.
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.

The Khan Academy...wanna weigh in?

The Khan Academy is getting alot of press and our very own friends from smART History is joining the team.

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/

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/

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

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. ...

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.

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

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. 

Design, deliver, achieve results, Course Roadmap Hope Windle from windleh

http://www.slideshare.net/windleh/design-deliver-achieve-results-course-roadmap-hope-windle

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