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Gates Goes Open – New Grants from Next Generation Learning Challenges
0April 7, 2011
Proprietary in his beta phase, Bill Gates 2.0 is all about sharing the wealth. And he is asking his latest crop of higher ed benefactors to do likewise.
Next Generation Learning Challenges, or NGLC — a grant program run by Educause and fueled mostly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — gave the bulk of its first round of “challenge grants” to university-led projects aimed at either increasing access to college degree programs or supplying free, top-flight online learning materials to colleges that could not otherwise afford them.
The article notes the emphasis on open courseware projects that can be adopted by many colleges.
Comparing Online Programs
0March 24, 2011
Much of the debate about online higher education turns on comparing online courses to face-to-face ones. But with colleges of every type increasingly venturing into the fray of online teaching regardless, some have turned toward the practical question of comparing online programs with other online programs.
Please click here for full text of the article.
From Inside Higher Education
March, 24, 2011
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/03/24/consortium_creates_tool_to_compare_quality_of_online_college_programs
Should You Teach Online?
0Step one: Are you cut out to be an online teacher? Good article on the basics.
February 24, 2011
By Chloe Yelena Miller
Tampa Bay Online Hillsborough schools test social networking
0Here is a great example of the FirstClass Social Workplace tools in action. This feature set is included at no extra charge for hosted Consortium clients.
Enjoy the show!
Next Generation Learning Announces Wave I Finalists
0NGLC, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and led by Educause, has announced the 50 finalists for Wave I. The Wave I challenges are: Deployment of open core courseware, Scaling of blended learning programs, encouragement of deeper learner engagement and Mobilization of learning analytics.
Click here to visit the NGLC website.
Fast-Growing U. of Phoenix Calculates a More Careful Course
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, 2/8/2010
By Goldie Blumenstyk
Phoenix
In the fall of 2009, after closing the books on yet another banner year of enrollment growth, and with its parent company’s stock climbing toward a five-year high of $90 per share, the University of Phoenix began to question fundamental pieces of the very formula that had fueled its years of success.
The States of Online Regulation
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Online colleges looking to expand their national footprints might have to gird themselves for a regulatory beating from the Sun Belt. And they might get chilly receptions in certain parts of the Upper Midwest, too. Click here for full story.
From Inside Higher Ed, January 21, 2011
Student Views on Technology and Teaching
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From Insider Higher Education
By Joshua Kim January 18, 2011 9:45 pm EST
Today was one of those days that us educators live for. A recent graduate, Lucretia Witte (who is now teaching 6th graders in Bridgeport CT for Teach for America), came back to campus to lead a session entitled “Student Views on Technology and Teaching” at our Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL).
7 Things You Should Know About Open-Ended Response Systems
0From Educause, 7 Things You Should Know About…
An open-ended student response system is an electronic service or application that lets students enter text responses during a lecture or class discussion. Open-ended systems give faculty the option of collecting such free-form contributions from students, in addition to asking the true/false or multiple-choice questions that conventional clicker systems allow. Such tools open a channel for the kind of individual, creative student responses that can alter the character of learning. The great strength of open-ended student response systems may be that they create another avenue for discussion, allowing students to join a virtual conversation at those times when speaking out in live discourse might seem inappropriate, intimidating, or difficult.
Expert Predicts a Deluge of Tablet Computers on Campuses
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From The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 7, 2011, 3:43 pm
Las Vegas—In his keynote address at the Higher Ed Tech Summit, Walt Mossberg, the influential technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, told an audience of higher-education officials and company executives that their future held many tablet computers. And not just the iPad, but some of the 70 or so new tablet devices that have been announced this week at the Consumer Electronics Show here.
