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Intellectual Property Articles
The Plagiarism Tariff
British academics aim to create a common system of penalties for addressing student misconduct. Could the benchmarks go global?
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Is the New York Times Really Claiming That All Paid RSS Readers Infringe its Copyright?
The Interwebs are up in arms, again. This time, the kerfuffle is over a DMCA notice, submitted by The New York Times Co., That caused the removal of the Pulse RSS reader from the Apple Apps Store. The timing almost seemed designed to bring out the pitchfork-wielding hordes: Mere hours after the Pulse iPad application was highlighted by Steve Jobs during his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the app was pulled from the App Store in response to a DMCA claim submitted by The New York Times Co.
Source: Citizen Media Law Project Digest: Digital-copyright Digest
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Academic Articles
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Seed of Doubt (about Online Education Outcomes)
Researchers criticize the prevailing evidence on the merits of online education and call for a more scientific approach. Source: Inside Higher Ed
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Video Lectures May Slightly Hurt Student Performance
Live instruction, by comparison, benefits Hispanic students, male students, and lower-achieving students in particular, a recent study found. Source: Wired Campus
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'How are you going to grade this?': Evaluating Classroom Blogs
Several of us at ProfHacker incorporate blogs into our pedagogy, and we have written on a range of course blog-related issues such as "Integrating, Evaluating, and Managing Blogging in the Classroom" (Julie) and "Tools for Managing Multiple Class Blogs" (Amy) among many others. In this post we (Jeff and Julie) will offer a few specific tips for evaluating course blogs and addressing the common question "how are you going to grade this?" Source: Chronicle / ProfHacke
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Looking in the Mirror (Confessions of an Online Educator)
“What are the mistakes that even an experienced online trainer and educator can make?” Pat Wagner asks herself this question and others like it [When did my online persona become tedious?] in this personal and reflective essay about her experiences teaching and training online. She writes, “I need to seek out virtual and physical experiences that are hard, where I won't automatically build on previous success, and where I don't have the vocabulary and context to be the smartest kid in class. I need to surprise my brain and body so that when I return to my virtual classroom, I have more empathy with students who struggle with things I find easy...” Source: eLearnMagazine
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Immersive Distance Learning To Boost Retention
Huntington Junior College (Huntington, WV) has launched a pilot program that combines the open source learning management system Moodle with the immersive virtual world Second Life. It has proven highly popular, and, though still in the early stages, the indication is that it's helping to build a connection between the college and its non-traditional student base. Source: Campus Technology Digest: Academic Impressions
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Educators Connect Digital Games to Learning
Quest to Learn is a New York City charter school for grades 6-12 centered around digital-game-inspired teaching methods. Source: Education Week
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Using MP3s as a Teaching Tool for College English Classes
My recent foray into using MP3s to teach college level English classes came out of my need to reach more of my non-traditional students. I saw a trend developing where more adults than ever were seeking a college education or even returning to college to change careers, and it only followed that I had a responsibility as an instructor to try and reach these students. It also became apparent in my classroom that I wanted to not only reach, but to retain these non-traditional students who seemed to become easily frustrated with the more traditional lecture and textbook methods. Source: Faculty Focus |
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For Robert Morris U., the Nontraditional-Student Market Is New Again
The former accounting school has been successful in building a base of four-year students, but now it wants the grown-ups back/ Source: Chronicle
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How Colleges Can Drive Traffic to Their Web Sites
Marketing expert tells higher-ed IT officials about her process for developing a loyal following online. Source: eCampusNews |
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75% of U.S. Households Use Social Networking
A Nielsen study shows Internet users spent an average of more than 6 hours a month on sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter during May. Source: Information Week |
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Veterans Use Benefits of New GI Bill Largely at For-Profit and Community Colleges
For-profit colleges and community colleges were the most popular choices of students who used benefits from the Post-9/11 GI Bill this past academic year, the first in which the aid was available. The attendance patterns were largely similar to those of students who recently used aid under the previous version of the GI Bill. Advocates of the Post-9/11 bill, which was enacted in 2008, had said it could improve veterans' ability to afford four-year institutions because of its increased benefits and new allowances for housing and textbooks. Source: Chronicle |
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Cheating in Class is Easy, Unacceptable
A student blogger from the University of Florida urges her fellow classmates to maintain their integrity and refrain from cheating. It's disturbing that she takes cheating as a very common practice among her peers, especially in online classes. Source: The Independent Florida Alligator |
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Millennials Speak Out on Education
According to Pew, just 31% of Millennials have no plans to go to college, with the rest either in college, planning to go to college or already graduated. This may be the most educated cohort in history. Yet, there seems to be an increasing sense of uneasiness about the degree to which college is preparing them for life after college. They are right to be concerned. Pew data also shows that in 2010, only 41% of all 18-29 year olds have full-time jobs compared to half in 2006. Source: Millennial Marketing |
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Student Services, in Outside Hands
Serving students is big business. Third-party vendors sell orientation sessions, curricula for first-year-experience courses, training and support for RA's, drug- and violence-prevention programs, financial and spiritual advising. They offer software to manage housing assignments, student-conduct cases, retention programs, campus groups. That is to say, almost the full range of what student-affairs officers do. Enhance your offerings, the marketing pitches go. Save time and money. Make your life easier. Vendors promise to deliver results, but independent data on whether they live up to their claims are hard to come by. Nevertheless, the industry is growing larger—and colleges' decisions trickier. A few years ago, one firm may have advertised a student-service product. Now five do. Source: Chronicle |
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Our Privacy, Our Anonymity and Our Education, Too?
A college student worries about the quality of some online classes that he has taken. Source: USA Today |
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