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4 Guidelines for Assessment Using Rubrics

Notes from workshop from the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy presented by Mary Allen. Mary Allen writes on her hand out “Developing and Applying Rubrics” June 14, 2011 WASC Assessment Leadership Academy 1. “Rubrics provide criteria for assessing students’ work. …Rubrics can be used to provide formative feedback to students, to grade students, and/or to assess [...]

The value of a college degree

Many students believe that if they receive a college degree they will “get a good job”. They are anxious to “get the degree” rather than getting the education. This mindset is analogous: getting a degree is like getting  a plane ticket, rather than qualifying them for a passport

Kit connecting Android to a USB device

http://video.eetimes.com/playlist-video/latest-news/111592568001/usb-support-for-android/938618981001

Collective complexity

Reynolds’ boids, cormorants in Cape Town, and why collective behaviour emerges from simple individual rules http://www.livemint.com/2011/05/26224925/Collective-complexity.html

Yale honors Doug Engelbart with honorary Ph.D.

Doug Engelbart received a doctorate from Yale last week adding this to his impressive collection of Ph.Ds. 1955. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley 1994. Honorary Doctorate, Oregon State University 2001. Honorary Doctorate, Santa Clara University

Data Analytics

In the blog post from “eLearning Roadtrip” called Data Change Everything the author lays out a case for investment and innovation. We’ve seen what data analytics does for business and I’ve heard from reliable sources that the for-profit online universities are having some success with this field. The Apollo Group (University of Phoenix) hired tip wiz kids [...]

Woz: Computer can be a friend and not just a computerized text book

In this interview with the EE Times Interview Steve Wozniak creates a compelling case for how schools are squelching creativity.

Student Learning Outcomes: Making the invisible visible

In the article “Measurement of ‘Learning Outcomes’ Comes to Graduate Schoolin The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 1, 2010, David Glenn asks three deans why graduate schools should require detailed student learning outcomes. The main points: “Making the invisible visible”

Notes from “The Learning Paradigm College”

I’m reading “The Learning Paradigm College” by John Tagg. I am posting my notes on this blog as I read — virtually highlighting phrases and scribbling in the margins on this blog– a public act — as an experiment in documenting my own learning. One sentence in the Foreword (by Peter T. Ewell, Vice President [...]