THE Journal, along with Adam Bellow, founder of eduTeacher, and Donna Criswell, instructional integration specialist, shares the details on creative storytelling apps–tools that can transform the traditional narrative to turn users into novelists, artists, and moviemakers. The list includes Storybird, Moegraph, ZooBurst, and Popplet.
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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October 23, 2012Noting that literacy instruction often is not implemented at the secondary level in part because of discipline-specific frameworks and characteristics, this briefing paper from the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) addresses the following key points: Developing content-area literacy in students is critical to social and economic health. Content-area teachers have the responsibility for developing reading skills specific to their respective content areas. Literacy within a discipline must involve understanding how…
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October 23, 2012Education innovator David Ernst plugs education into the future as he seeks to bring open-licensed textbooks into the classroom. This video was recorded at TEDxKyoto 2012.
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October 23, 2012This is one in a series of data briefs developed by the Delta Cost Project at AIR using data from the IPEDS Analytics: Delta Cost Project Database 1987-2010, which was released on August 14, 2012, by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. The intent of this series is to update key tables and figures from Trends in College Spending. This brief looks at two degree-related measures: Degree…
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October 23, 2012Economic projections point to a need for approximately one million more STEM professionals than the U.S. will produce at the current rate over the next decade. To meet this goal, the U.S. will need to increase the number of students who receive undergraduate STEM degrees by about 34% annually over current rates. Strategies for Effective STEM Education, edited by Valerian Bell and Shioban Gonzalez, provides an overview for strategies to improve…
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October 22, 2012Alex Kajitani, 2009 California Teacher of the Year, and Jan Morrison, president of the Teaching Institute for Excellence, motivate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers to put ideas into action. This FORA TV video was recorded at California STEM Summit 2012.
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October 22, 2012This is part of the Delta Cost Project at American Institutes for Research (AIR) series addressing postsecondary costs resulting from student attrition and ways to measure and manage them. This brief summarizes Internet-based research into other industries that may offer useful analogies for thinking about student attrition in higher education, in particular for setting realistic benchmarks for reductions in attrition.
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October 22, 2012Universities find themselves in dynamic change, confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from around the world, Universities in Change by Andreas Altmann and Bernd Ebersberger argues that institutions of higher education, in order to be successful, must actively reflect on circumstances, visions, and strategies to master the future. Drawing from their experiences…
