TeachPaperless: Teaching Social Solutions to the Mysteries of 21st Century Teaching & Learning
Thursday, October 20, 2011
OpenClass: It's a new kind of learning environment that goes beyond the LMS
OpenClass is a dynamic, scalable, fully cloud-based solution that stimulates social learning and the exchange of content, coursework, and ideas - all from one integrated platform. Out of the box it has all the LMS functionality needed to manage courses. But that’s just the beginning. OpenClass actually advances education by leveraging modern social technology to encourage collaboration and communication for students, faculty, institutions, and administrators around the world. OpenClass also features an idea exchange that will make it easy to find and share the latest approaches, content, and curriculum.
OpenClass puts the focus on learning, not on technology, to improve the way teachers teach and students learn.
Pearson is the world's leading learning company, providing educational materials, technologies, assessments, and related services to teachers and students of all ages. Pearson is also a leading provider of electronic learning programs and of test development, processing, and scoring services to educational institutions, corporations, and professional bodies around the world.
Sign up for OpenClass today and help us shape the future of education.
Related Video: http://www.youtube.com/JoinOpenClass
Courseload: Any Textbook. Any Content. Any Device.
Introducing Courseload
The cost of textbooks has risen twice as fast as other costs in higher education. Research indicates that more than one-third of all students go without one or more textbooks each year, driving students, parents, faculty, and school leaders to actively look for ways to cut textbooks costs. Courseload offers an electronic version of any textbook on any web-enabled device for one-third to one-half of the price of a traditional printed textbook.
Student Benefits
With Courseload, students see up to a 70% reduction in the cost of new textbooks. All course materials are accessible through any web-based device (Laptops, iPads, Android devices, Smartphones, etc) taking the bulk out of the backpack. Students say they learn more from an e-textbook read on Courseload. Cheaper, lighter, and better for learning. No wonder three quarters of students prefer Courseload to traditional textbooks.
Instructor Benefits
Courseload’s faculty dashboard enables new ways to teach and understand how students learn with real-time analytics and note sharing. Choose any textbook, workbook, article, publication, or video you like; we can handle it. Want to incorporate multimedia materials into your courses? We can do that too. Digital course materials provide the ultimate flexibility for instruction.
School Benefits
Looking for a solution that provides a school-wide cost reduction, improves your ability to compete and supports green efforts? How about no institutional start-up costs, fast and easy implementation and improved learning outcomes? Look no further. Courseload provides all this and more. Let us help you find a better way to help students lower their costs and improve their learning.
Related Article:
Berkeley College Adopts Courseload To Provide Digital Course Materials
By Mike Hohenbrink 10/17/11
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2011/10/17/berkley-college-adopts-courseload-to-provide-digital-course-materials.aspx
Related Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcLbLfyPgg&feature=player_embedded
Campus Technology: Google Adds Real-Time Collaboration, More than 50 New Features to Presentations
By Joshua Bolkan 10/18/11
Goggle Docs has updated its presentation tool with real-time collaboration and more than 50 new features.
"Presentations are made to be shared--whether it's presenting your thesis to your professors or inspiring colleagues at a conference," according to a post on the Official Google Blog. "And the best presentations are made together, collaborating with others to build a compelling story that captivates your audience."
Features designed to facilitate collaboration include:
The ability to see what other team members are working on with presence markers;
Simultaneous editing from remote locations;
The ability to track changes and who made them or revert to an earlier version of a presentation through revision history; and
Built-in chat.
Other new features include:
Transitions, including fades and 3D effects;
Animations;
The ability to draw charts, designs, layouts and more;
New themes; and
Rich tables, with merged cells and other options.
The company says that the new features will roll out gradually, though some are available now. Start using the latest version of Google presentations by clicking on the gear icon in the documents list and then checking the box next to "Create new presentations using the latest version of the presentation editor" in the editing tab.
Also according to the Official Google Blog, "Many of the new features were built using technologies that are only available in modern browsers. If you’re using an older browser you’ll be able to view, but not edit, the new presentations."
More information is available at googleblog.blogspot.com. A guide for getting started with presentations is available at http://docs.google.com/
About the Author
Joshua Bolkan is a Portland, OR-based reporter and editorial intern for Campus Technology and THE Journal. He can be reached at jbolkan@gmail.com
Campus Technology: Regaining Your Faculties
By Joanna F. DeFranco, Eric Malm 10/17/11
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE Centre for Learning and Professional Development
e-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Project
The e-Enhanced Learning and Teaching project (e-ELTP) is a three year program (2009-2011) to improve the student experience via electronically enhanced flexible teaching options in selected first and final/later year courses. The enhancements will provide more flexible course delivery options, more timely student feedback and consistent access to online course content. The project also aims to increase active use of MyUni and leverage the enhancements and resources developed to improve other courses. Learn more about the e-ELTP.
Examples
Examples of enhancements are presented by discipline and theme. Several themes have emerged from our discussions with academics so far, including managing assessment and large classes online, integrating external/third party online content and presenting key concepts and worked solutions online.
by discipline
■Accounting
■Anatomy
■Chemistry
■Computer science
■Economics
■Engineering
■History
■Law
■Marketing
■Maths
■Media
■Medicine
■Microbiology
■Nursing
■Pathology
■Physics
■Psychology
by technology or solution
•Assessment
•Key concepts
•Managing large classes
•Worked Examples
•Virtual environments
•Other
Inside Higher Ed: The Rapid Rise of Merit Aid
The 2012 FOSE Call for Presentations Now Open
Submit Your Presentation Now:
http://click.1105info.com/?qs=0e0f5744778edf4d0cda1951d2de8e3b57d60f48d6cdeb31d12987cdb919ea86265358b67605c3ea
The FOSE Conference & Exposition serves government agency program and project executives, CIOs, chief technology officers, network administrators, information technology managers, engineers, purchasing and training managers seeking new and improved solutions for managing and operating civilian, defense, state and local government agencies. FOSE also serves technology and business development executives and professionals doing business with government agencies.
The FOSE Team welcomes presentation proposals that provide meaningful, actionable insights about technology development for government IT decision makers. We are looking for presentations that detail use-case studies, lessons learned, or emerging trends that improve operational efficiency and ignite innovation within and across government agencies. We are particularly interested in receiving proposals on a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
* The Federal IT Agenda for 2013 and Beyond
* Geospatial Information Technologies
* Mobile Workforce and Wireless Technologies
* Cloud, IT Network and Data Center Systems
* Cybersecurity, and Network Defense, and Information Assurance
* Defense, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Situational Awareness Systems
* Social Media, Collaboration, and Information Sharing
* Big Data/Data Analytics
* Web/Workplace Efficiency and Productivity Applications
* Government Wide Acquisition Contracts
* Technology Innovation/Future Trends
Deadline for Submissions: November 4, 2011, 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
2012 Event Information
Dates: April 3 - 5
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C.
Note: FOSE 2012 is co-located with GovSec 2012.
Questions?
For conference CFP questionsn contact:
Suzanne Young, Content Director, syoung@1105media.com 703.876.5103.
For General FOSE Questions contact:
Stephen R. McCollum, Event Manager, smccollum@1105media.com or 703.876.5058.
Interested in exhibiting in or sponsoring FOSE 2012?
Contact Christopher Johnson, christopherjohnson@1105media.com or 703.876.5084.
Academic Impressions Webinar: Integrating Information Literacy into the First Year
12pm-1:45pm CST
February 7, 2012
OVERVIEWHelp make your first-year students academically successful by integrating information literacy into first-year experience programs and courses. Many first-year programs incorporate information literacy peripherally; the highest impact, however, comes from making it an integral part of the first-year curriculum.
In this webcast, you will learn how to:
•Utilize librarians in curriculum planning
•Create research-based learning outcomes that address information literacy
•Develop authentic and engaging research experiences and assignments for first-year students
•Foster collaboration between librarians and first-year seminar faculty
Join us online to learn how to effectively embed information literacy into the first-year student experience, as well as how two institutions are using these best practices successfully.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This program is ideal for first-year faculty who plan and develop first-year student experience programs and for librarians who work with undergraduate students.
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