Note: This is a presentation I gave in February 2010 at the 27th Annual Academic Chairperson’s Conference. It’s fairly long, by blog standards, the equivalent of six double spaced pages. A retrospective analysis of the launch of a new online only program, it discusses what I call the Field of Dreams model of program development. [...]
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It’s no surprise that administrators at the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ conference this month felt that expectations about research and tenure were interfering with the quality of learning. What is surprising is that the solutions proposed are so timid. Fewer lectures will help but it won’t save us.
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Here’s a quote from Tim McGuire at Arizona State on copy editing in the new world. The whole thing is worth a read- with several tips on how it can/should/must be handled at newspapers. Quote from lecture after the jump.
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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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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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a wired classroom
