According to the Campaign to Reduce College Textbook Costs, the cost of textbooks is rising at four times the rate of inflation. The average student spends $900 a year on textbooks, about a forth of the cost of tuition and fees at a public community college or a fifth of the cost of a public [...]
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Dr. Wayne Clugston, senior vice-president of corporate development with Bridgepoint Education, predicted that by 2020 higher education will be fully engaged in global entrepreneurial learning. By this he means learning will extend far beyond classroom walls, drawing people together in more consumer-driven learning communities. Clugston believes co-constructed learning of this sort is driven by the [...]
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George Herbert Mead believed the world we live in is mostly in our head, and that language frames not only how we perceive things but what we are able to perceive. Mead, who influenced many prominent thinkers in communication and sociology today, believed that symbolic naming is the basis of human society, and in fact [...]
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Mergers, convergence, broad band. The media is swirling with change as stakeholders and shareholders compete for our attention. Newspaper circulation is down, and so are broadcast TV audiences. Internet usage is up, and guys in particular have quit watching TV to listen to CDs and play video games. Meanwhile people are sleeping less and working [...]
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Last March a steamy paperback published by Harper Perennial wasn’t getting much traction in the mainstream press. Juvenile. Sexist. Offensive. So the publisher paid $10,000 to produce three risque’ videos and put them on Youtube, where it spread to Myspace. Two weeks later the book was in its third printing with over one million verified [...]
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….from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people …. And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them. Psalm 78:72-73 Much of the conversation about the role of an instructor in online learning falls out generally along the line of teacher vs. coach, or [...]
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an editorial for the Association of Christian Collegiate Media newsletter Journalism is not dead. As Philip Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of North Carolina has observed, “Most of the things that I needed to know for my Twentieth Century journalism career I learned in high school, and they are still useful today: [...]
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The issue of community can be addressed differently, and better, by raising the stakes. If we were to create projects that mattered, that made a difference in the world, students would care more about the project and about each other. This gets back to the issue of shared values and goals and creates an environment where passionate people are vested in the outcome.
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a wired classroom
