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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Teacher Learning Community Upcoming Webinars Sept-Dec 2011
- No More Excuses! It’s Time To Overcome Your Techphobia!
- Flip Your Classroom with Online Discussions
- Break Down Classroom Walls with Social Media and Online Tools
- Using Your iPad to Break Free: Don’t Be Chained to Your Desktop Computer
- Digital Storytelling using the iPad
- Save Time and Simplify Your Grading
- Supporting Bloom’s Taxonomy in a Digital World
- Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock...Saving Time with Innovative Web Tools
- The Right Tools for the Right Job: 30 Tools in 50 Minutes – Round Two!
- Lessons That Talk: Create Differentiated and Online Lessons with Screencasts and Audio
- Digital Storytelling using the iPad
- Google Sites: Web Sites Made Simple
- Keynote Kickoff: Interactive Sites for Your Interactive Whiteboard
- Make Google Forms Work for You!
- Beyond Pen and Paper: Online Notetaking with the iPad
- 3 Keys to Having a Successful Blog
- 6 Steps to Becoming a Viral Educator
- Improved Engagement and Better Behavior: Just a Few Clicks Away!
- Screencasts Made Easy: Create and Share Your Own Tutorials
- 5 Steps to Begin Harnessing the Power of Cells in Ed Today (Even if They Are Banned!)
Faculty Handbook for Online Teaching and Learning
Written by Page Wolf
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
College of Lake County
Grayslake, IL
Fall 2003
With contributions by: Carole Bulakowski, Connie Bakker, Annette Bigham, Natalia Casper,
John North, and Penne Devery
A project of the College of Lake County’s Distance Learning Advisory Committee
SUNO News: SUNO awarded grant to support retention
The University has been selected to participate as a protégé institution for the Wal-Mart AIHEC/HACU/NAFEO Student Success Collaborative. The project is a collaboration among the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the Hispanic Association of College and Universities (HACU), and the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO). Combined, the minority-serving institutions educate more than one-third of all students of color in the United States according to the award letter SUNO received from NAFEO. SUNO will receive a total of $100,000 to assist in retention and graduation rate project implementation.
“We cannot thank Wal-Mart and NAFEO enough for paying attention to such a critical issue,” said Dr. Victor Ukpolo. “These funds will help us take a nice leap forward in our efforts to better serve our students in their respective efforts to obtain their degrees from SUNO.”
Dr. Donna Grant, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Services said, “Every little bit helps in our retention efforts. For the average person to understand the impact of this kind of grant, we would like them to consider some of the everyday challenges our students have in staying in school such as money for books, which can cost hundreds of dollars, on top of tuition, housing and other fees. So this kind of funding helps support our efforts to provide financial resources for deserving student who have challenges.”
Howard University News: UNCF President Lomax Challenges Howard, HBCUs
By Olivia Drake
University News
September 23, 2011
WASHINGTON – Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D., president and chief executive of the United Negro College Fund, was the keynote speaker and received a Doctor of Humane Letters at the University’s 144th Convocation. Lomax emphasized the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States.
“We cannot afford to lose any more black colleges,” Lomax said. “[They] need to all perform at the top of their game.”
As UNCF president, Lomax leads the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships and other educational support to minority and low-income students. Lomax encouraged administrators, faculty and the student body to promote civility and dialogue within academia.
“Great colleges must not be complacent,” said Lomax, the former president of Dillard University. “They must welcome the struggle to become stronger.”
He lauded Howard as a leader among HBCUs. He said current alumni and students at the event, as future alumni, would have to step up as donors to “become our alma mater’s funder of first resort.”
“Howard was there for you, now Howard needs you,” Lomax said.
Lomax had oversight of 450 programs at UNCF, including the UNCF Gates Millennium Scholars Program, a $1.6 billion project whose 14,000 low-income minority recipients have a 90 percent college graduation rate. Lomax also launched the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building, which seeks to strengthen 39 private historically black colleges and universities around the country.
Prior to joining the UNCF, Lomax served as president of Dillard University in New Orleans for seven years and a professor of literature at Morehouse and Spelman Colleges. He was also chairman of the Fulton County Commission in Atlanta, the first African American elected to that post.
WHUT-TV will broadcast the Opening Convocation on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
University Business: Why You Should Root for College to Go Online (Opinion)
In early August, Apollo Group, parent company of the University of Phoenix, made an acquisition that is small compared to the billion-dollar deals common to high-tech industries. Apollo paid less than $100 million to acquire Carnegie Learning, a provider of computer-based math tutorials. Such technology acquisitions are rare in higher education, to say the least. Yet this seemingly small deal is a signal of disruptive revolution in higher education.
Carnegie Learning is the creation of computer and cognitive scientists from Carnegie Mellon University. Their math tutorials draw from cutting-edge research about the way students learn and what motivates them to succeed academically. These scientists have created adaptive computer tutorials that meet students at their individual level of understanding and help them advance via the kinds of exercises they personally find most engaging and effective. The personalization and sophistication is hard for even an expert human tutor to match. It is a powerful, affordable adjunct to classroom instruction, as manifest by Carnegie Learner's user base of more than 600,000 secondary students in over 3,000 schools nationwide.
Some of Apollo's potential uses of this software are immediately apparent. It will prove a boon to the hundreds of thousands of University of Phoenix students who take math courses in almost all of its programs of study. Also, the underlying learning and computer science technology are likely to be applied to math-related courses, such as those in economics, finance, and accounting that the University of Phoenix offers its undergraduate business and MBA students.
Then there are the strategic marketing possibilities. The secondary school students who have come to value and rely on Carnegie Learning's math tutorials are future college students. They might not think now of the University of Phoenix for college. But Sony discovered something interesting about the teenagers who bought its inexpensive pocket-size transistor radios and Walkman cassette tape players: they grew up to be faithful consumers of its larger stereos and television sets. Initially, Magnavox and RCA didn't worry about the low-profit-margin products for kids. In hindsight, they should have.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
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