The Tech Academy blog lists higher-education’s top 10 uses of Twitter, including marketing, crisis alerts, student recruitment, alumni development, and curriculum.
A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age
January 24, 2013EdSurge discusses a Bill of Rights and Principles, newly developed by a group of people passionate about learning, serving today’s students, and using every available tool to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world....
Digital Content: What Does the Future Hold for Education Systems?
January 23, 2013GETideas.org hosted this GooglePlus hangout on the future of digital content. The online discussion featured a panel of education experts, including Nicole Allen, affordable-textbooks advocate, Student PIRGS; Una Daly, communication college outreach director, OpenCourseWare Consortium; and Cable Green, director of global...
Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement: A Realist Analysis
January 22, 2013In Explaining Inequalities in School Achievement, author Roy Nash argues that a realist framework for the sociological explanation of educational group differences can, and must be, constructed. A move to such an explanatory framework will allow society to take into account the...
Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools
January 14, 2013In Education 3.0: Seven Steps to Better Schools, renowned educator and technology expert Jim Lengel provides a refreshing and hopeful picture of what schools should look like, including a groundbreaking seven-step process for envisioning and building them that draws on the...
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June 20, 2011
This Hewlett Foundation report focuses on English as a Second Language (ESL) and English placement tests used in California community colleges and the implications of using these tests with students from language minority backgrounds who have attended U.S. K-12 schools and seek to continue their studies in community colleges.
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June 20, 2011
This Hewlett Foundation report examines community college policies and practices impacting students from immigrant and language minority backgrounds who have attended U.S. secondary schools and who enroll in community colleges.
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June 15, 2011
From Campus Technology: “In a time of knowledge stability, teach; in a time of rapid change in knowledge, learn … To make the turn from teaching to learning become a reality and not just a phrase, the first step should be toward a faculty development effort across the board to dramatically increase awareness of the basic research in learning theory of the past 30 years…”
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June 13, 2011
The Chronicle for Higher Education details recent debates around the goal of “College for All”–the notion that every student should engage in some form of postsecondary education–from a forum sponsored by Education Week to the pages of The New Yorker.
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June 13, 2011
eLearning Africa notes that experts on information communication technologies (ICTs) in Africa have challenged African universities and other learning institutions to adopt Web 2.0 technologies and use social media for teaching. At eLearning Africa 2011, they agreed that institutions can reduce running costs, mobilize learning resources, and expand research capacity with social media.
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June 6, 2011
The Converge Special Report on Mobility and Security examines how the concept of mobility is changing the education scene. The report discusses the ecosystem of elements that comprise mobility and some challenges education leaders may confront. The second half of the report confronts the issue of security with regard to mobility in education. It helps answer the question of how to successfully balance the two while still providing the access needed by students, faculty, and staff.
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June 3, 2011
What would a scholarly edited volume look like if it were created on the web? What if contributors discussed and refined their ideas online, before drafting their full essays? What if papers were openly reviewed on the web by a panel of invited experts and the public? How would this process feel, and would it produce a more intellectually coherent volume than the traditional model? And would an academic press publish it?
