News: Can You Hear Me Now? – Inside Higher Ed

 

News: Can You Hear Me Now? – Inside Higher Ed:

“As a professor, how do you get dropout-prone college students to stay in school? Give them your cell phone number. How do you get professors to promptly field text messages, calls and e-mails from students? Buy them smartphones and pay for the service plan.

That is the logic Georgia Gwinnett College employed when it decided to offer its more than 300 full- and part-time faculty members cell phones and encouraged them to respond to any calls or texts from students within 24 hours.”

 

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Killing the Lecture With Technology, Part II

Killing the Lecture With Technology, Part II – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education:

New York University plans to use video courses to free up some professors for more personalized teaching. In response to a Chronicle story about that project, other professors share strategies for using technology to shift class time away from lectures.  “ 

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Mass Video Courses May Free Up Professors for Personalized Teaching

Mass Video Courses May Free Up Professors for Personalized Teaching – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education:

“New York University plans to join the growing movement to publish academic material online as free, open courseware. But in addition to giving away content—something other colleges have done—NYU plans a more ambitious experiment. The university wants to explore ways to reprogram the roles of professors in large undergraduate classes, using technology to free them up for more personal instruction.”

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Through the Open Door: Open Courses as Research, Learning, and Engagement (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE

Through the Open Door: Open Courses as Research, Learning, and Engagement (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE:

“Over the last decade, as educators have increasingly experimented with social technologies and interactive pedagogies, the concept of a ‘course’ has been significantly challenged. In particular, questions have arisen as to the key value of the course in the educational system. Is the value the content €” the academic journal articles, lectures, textbooks, and libraries that compose much of the teaching and learning process? Or is it the engagement and interaction that occurs through discussions? Or is it the self-organized activities of learners in the social spaces of a college or university?”

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