Academic Technology News

Today’s Updates 11/21/2008 (a.m.)

Gene — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:30:09 +0000

Opening Up Education The MIT Press

Complete creative commons version of the book.

tags: Open-Courseware, Crin606
Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development

tags: Crin606
Minnesota to Have 25% of University Courses Online

Saint Paul –To expand access, increase technology skills, provide exciting and inspiring course content, and maximize efficiency and use of taxpayer resources, Governor Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) Board of Trustees Chair David Olson today announced a goal to have 25 percent of all MnSCU credits earned through online courses by 2015.

tags: no_tag
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

This looks like it has some real potential for real-time editing.

tags: Collaboration, writing

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Gene — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:30:26 +0000

New Model for Education Research :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs

tags: Research
- Bryk expressed, moreover, concern that most research is being conducted in the university setting where, as he wrote, “new theory development is more valued than practical solutions.” This environment, he said, is not conducive to the creation of workable solutions in education reform — not as long as scholarly articles in journals are considered the acme of accomplishment in educational research.

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Gene — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:30:13 +0000

OCW Production in the OCWC, 2003 to Present (w/ Chart) at OCW Blog

The open courseware project is reporting nearly 8000 courses:\n\nThe second thing of interest is the larger significance. There’s a way in which this is graphing the height of an iceberg from sea level. That peak there represents nearly 8,000 courses - but associated with those courses are thousands of professors who have now participated in an open education project, ten of thousands of professors that have been exposed to the concept of sharing these materials, and hundreds of thousands of students in these classes who have learned through the example of their institution that knowledge is a thing to be shared, not hoarded. Add to that the millions of people outside these institutions who have hit these courses from all over the world, and who have even come to expect such materials will be available, and we are talking a massive tectonic-scale shift in the expectations we are creating about knowledge.

tags: Crin606

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Gene — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:30:18 +0000

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Gene — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:30:33 +0000

Koofers - Past Tests/Exams, Study Guides, Teacher Ratings/Grades, Notes, & Online Help For College

When I was an undergraduate back in the dark ages one the the major benefits of joining a fraternity was the existence of multiple file cabinets full of previous exams, papers and study guides organized by course. The new term for those resources is (apparently) Koofers, and there’s now a Web 2.0 version that makes these resources available on a much more egalitarian basis.

tags: CRIN606

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Gene — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:30:16 +0000

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Gene — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:30:07 +0000

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Gene — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:30:08 +0000

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Gene — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:30:32 +0000

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Gene — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:30:18 +0000

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