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Learning Curve:
a Columbus State Instructional Technology Blog
Friday, May 9, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Here they come: 230,000 more students to Ohio system
Relates to: Student Access
Today's Dispatch has an article about Ohio's plan to increase college enrollment by 230,000. Online learning is central: The state plan outlines many ways that "nontraditional" students can build basic academic and technical certificates and job-skills classes that would count toward a college degree. And it requires the two- and...
Friday, March 28, 2008
More online learning profiled on NPR
Relates to: Teaching and Learning , Student Access, Student Engagement, 21st Century Skills
This is from Wednesday, March 26 Morning Edition. What caught ny ear was the online language learning, something that I think has great potential. ...
Your talking class
Relates to: Emerging Technology , Student Access
Here is a service that converts uploaded documents, cut and paste text, a URL or an RSS feed into spoken words. You have a choice of voices and can embed the audio into your page. (If only you could also embed the talking avatars they have on their site.) My...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Carrying on the work of Dr. David Litt
Relates to: Student Access, Faculty
This week we lost a dear friend and colleague as Dave Litt, Coordinator, for Columbus State's Sports and Exercise Science Program, passed away on Sunday December 16th. As President Moeller stated in her message to the campus: "He impacted the lives of many students and colleagues and made significant contributions...
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Preserve the learning power of eportfolios
Relates to: eportfolio
Trent Batson has a nice riff on the confusion and dilution of eportfolios as learning tools in a recent Campus Technology article : The issue is not with accountability, but with conflating traditional assessment management systems and traditional ePortfolio approaches to teaching and learning -- replacing a learning tool with a...
Friday, November 30, 2007
National call to action for education
Relates to: Teaching and Learning , Policy, 21st Century Skills
From e School News : "Three leading educational technology advocacy groups have banded together to release a position paper that makes an urgent case for why--and how--school leaders should integrate technology into instruction." See the report: Maximizing the Impact: Why Technology Must Play a Pivotal Role in 21st Century Education...
