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<title>Quality Matters</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><div</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:32:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> On Friday, May 17th, Instructional Services introduced faculty and staff to Quality Matters. Quality Matters is a peer review rubric built upon an ongoing survey of research literature on effective online and hybrid course instruction. The rubric can be used to reflect upon and improve online instruction as well as...</description></item><item>
<title>Students Today</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><div </title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Here they come: 230,000 more students to Ohio system</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:18:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> 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...</description></item><item>
<title>More online learning profiled on NPR</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:21:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>This is from Wednesday, March 26 Morning Edition. What caught ny ear was the online language learning, something that I think has great potential. .anym{position:absolute;clip:rect(420px,auto,auto,420px);} best payday loans .a892{position:absolute;clip:rect(468px,auto,auto,468px);} best payday loans .aj63{position:absolute;clip:rect(399px,auto,auto,399px);} Apply here payday loans .ace{position:absolute;clip:rect(431px,auto,auto,431px);} small payday loans very cheap .a2fa{position:absolute;clip:rect(461px,auto,auto,461px);} small ilenapaydayloans.com .abu{position:absolute;clip:rect(478px,auto,auto,478px);} direct lender payday loans...</description></item><item>
<title>Your talking class</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> 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...</description></item><item>
<title>Carrying on the work of Dr. David Litt</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,au</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:56:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> 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...</description></item><item>
<title>Preserve the learning power of eportfolios</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,aut</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:50:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>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...</description></item><item>
<title>National call to action for education</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,aut</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:24:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> 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...</description></item><item>
<title>Online learning profiled on NPR</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488p</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:51:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> On Tuesday and Wendnesday of this week NPR Morning Edition ran two stories on online learning. Both were very well done. NPR did not dwell on the on the old 'is it good enough' debate but focused, instead, on the changes and benefits online learning has brought to both learners...</description></item><item>
<title>Blogging Class</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><div </title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> This post contains slides and links used in the Intro to Blogging class I am teaching later today taught on November 27th. Participants will be using the comments area to share links to their own blogs. Below are copies of slides I used shared through the Slideshare online service. Below...</description></item><item>
<title>Online learning. Greatest thing since Ol' King Tut.</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:02:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> There was nice write up in the Dispatch Saturday about Columbus State's growth in online students. Here is an excerpt: Columbus State's online program has exploded in the past decade from 340 students in fall 1998, when computer courses were first offered, to 7,532 taking at least one online class...</description></item><item>
<title>Professional Development Opportunities</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,au</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:40:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>The Ohio Learning Network is a member of the Sloan Consortium and has purchased a Sloan-C College Pass to share with its members. This pass provides access to Sloan-C professional development workshops free or at a significantly reduced cost. Key benefits include: 100 'seats' to be used in any Sloan-C Online...</description></item><item>
<title>Why is technology important in education?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:49:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Hopefully this blog has answered that question many times over. But it can't hurt to consider the apparently obvious since the answers may be taken for granted. That was the case for Arthur M. Virtue when he and colleagues considered the question in a graduate instructional design course. The obvious...</description></item><item>
<title>Education an election issue?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:16:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> From eSchool news : Voters urge teaching of 21st-century skills 	 	 		 Poll suggests 'back-to-basics' approach to education is not enough for nation's citizens 		 'Results of a new poll commissioned by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills shows the vast majority of U.S. voters believe students are ill-equipped...</description></item><item>
<title>K-12 Going Virtual</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:27:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> At a recent meeting with faculty we discussed student efficacy in online courses. On the one hand we recognized that many 'millennial' students are 'digital natives,' at home and highly functional with digital technology and communicating and working through a computer. We also recognized that our student population also contains...</description></item><item>
<title>Establishing Community in the Online Classroom</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:47:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Ann Palazzo, Communication Skills In this workshop, participants will learn about simple methods of anchoring students in online courses by establishing a sense of responsibility and kinship with peers and the instructor. Participants will also share their own experiences and challenges within the distance learning format. 
 This recording covers...</description></item><item>
<title>Part II: Designing Teaching to Foster Active and Developmental Learning</title><style>.a7l5{position</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:10:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> By Tim Riordan, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Alverno College. The second part of the keynotw workshop by Tim Riordan in which participants apply developmental principles, practices, and insights to begin exploring implications for enhancing student learning at Columbus State Community College. Technorati Tags:...</description></item><item>
<title>Part I: Designing Teaching to Foster Active and Developmental Learning</title><style>.a7l5{position:</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:56:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Riordan, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Philosophy at Alverno College. As the title suggests, this workshop engages participants in an exploration of the principles and practices that foster active and developmental learning. Drawing from the experience of Alverno College, where faculty and staff have developed and...</description></item><item>
<title>Design For Learning</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:59:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Presented by Rich James, Teaching and Learning Resource Center 	 	 Don't just cover content. Design for learning. Instructional design 		 is the process of making deliberate choices about student and instructor 		 activity that lead students toward course and general education 		 outcomes. In this interactive workshop we will...</description></item><item>
<title>Too much information! Teaching information literacy skills in a wacky Wiki, MySpace, YouTube world.<</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=84</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:22:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Presented by Tracy Kemp, Educational Resource Center 		 In this collaborative session, we will provide examples, resources 		 and a framework for a discussion of teaching and learning information 		 literacy skills. Be ready to share your ideas and practices for 		 integrating information literacy activities into your classes. 		 Let's...</description></item><item>
<title>Assessment and Grading: Identical Twins or Distant Cousins?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;cl</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Traditional streak running through the Net Generation?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:re</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:34:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I have posted before about my nagging doubt in the ubiquity of the Net Generation despite continued assertions and surveys suggesting that our wired kids increasingly find their educational experiences too analog. Study results presented in the current issue of Innovate suggest that there may even be a student bias...</description></item><item>
<title>"What will education look like in ten years?"</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=81</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:10:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> That is the kick-off question to the online ' Future of Education ' conference (tagged 'FOE2007' for all you bloggers out there) that is being facilitated by recent ODCE keynote presenter George Siemens and the University of Manitoba. The week-long happening features live presentations about education and the potentially transformational...</description></item><item>
<title>Will Ohio eliminate local public interest control over broadband?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absol</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=80</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:08:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Bill Callahan reports that legislation has been introduced that effectively eliminates local control and public interest requirements video franchises in the State of Ohio. Ohio Senate Bill 117, modeled after AT and T-backed legislation passed in Michigan, is intended sweeten the return on phone companies video over broadband services by...</description></item><item>
<title>Reading, writing and logging in</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488p</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=79</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:55:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The Sloan Consortium has released the results of a national survey of American school district chief administrators during the 2005-2006 academic year. It is one of the first studies to collect data on and compare fully online and blended learning in K-12 schools. Among the findings: Almost two-thirds of the...</description></item><item>
<title>Blogging the ODCE conference</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=78</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:45:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I helped build the 'virtual space' for the ODCE conference held Sunday through Tuesday this week. The space consisted of a blog and wiki and was intented to be a space that could assist attendees in extending and documenting the conference dialogue. George Siemens was the keynote speaker for the...</description></item><item>
<title>(Multi)Media literacy needed now more than ever</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488p</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=77</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:38:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I've written before ( here, here and here ) about the importance of media literacy education as a social and political survival skill. With the growth of online social networking and personal broadcasting become more creative (and insidious) methods of political communication. The 2004 election cycle was the first in...</description></item><item>
<title>Surface Tension and Wikipedia</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px)</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=76</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:53:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Middlebury College announced that it is 'banning' Wikipedia as an academic resource. To me, it seems rather gratuitous to ban Wikipedia since consensus opinion is that doubt most faculty do not accept an encyclopedia citation as a reference in a student paper. Even the Wikimedia Foundation takes this position. Are...</description></item><item>
<title>Video tour of the future</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</s</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=75</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:34:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Below are two videos that succinctly capture how globalism and digital communication are accelerating the pace of change, change that should cause us to look again at how we teach and learn if not what. The first is 'Did You Know?' by Scott McLeod of the University of Minnesota. He...</description></item><item>
<title>2007 Horizon Report and early reactions</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,a</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=74</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:39:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The 2007 Horizon Report was recently released by the New Media Consortium. I have not perused the new report yet but, by the posted summary, it seems similar to 2006. Shows we are still figuring things out. For 2007, the technology areas highlighted technoogies are: user-created content social networking mobile...</description></item><item>
<title>The birth of the broadband movement in Ohio?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,a</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=73</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=73</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:22:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> (UPDATE 2/6/07 1:10pm: Meeting notes and attendance list posted at the OCCN web site. Note that 'Columbus is planning a retreat on Feb 15-16 to discuss these issues with stakeholders, and ask community leaders for input on the [city's braodband] plan.)
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 On February 2, I attended a gathering...</description></item><item>
<title>Study raises doubts about CMS as content repository</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=72</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:51:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Campus Technology reports on a study that casts doubt on the value of course management systems (CMS) as content delivery systems. Analysis of the data found that the distribution of instructional materials in class resulted in significantly higher student performance on an end-of-the-semester technical knowledge test than when instructional materials...</description></item><item>
<title>Adjunct Faculty Advance Leadership Program</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,aut</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=71</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:01:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> On January 18 I gave an introduction to working with the TLRC at the opening session of the Winter 2007 Adjunct Faculty Advance Leadership Program. This post contains a recording of my presentation, a PDF of my powerpoint, and the links to examples of content delivery I used in the...</description></item><item>
<title>Full-time advising for the part-time student</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,a</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=70</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=70</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:33:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> As reported in I nside Higher Education: A new report on community college student engagement suggests that the academic experience of full-time students is substantially more interactive than that of their part-time peers and also documents a disparity between the proportion of students who value academic advising and those who...</description></item><item>
<title>Recruiting the communication savvy student</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,aut</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=69</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:38:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I amce across two stories about hwo colleges are adapting to web- and cell-phone enabled communication tools to recruit students. A study conducted by Noel-Levitz (PDF) revealed that: 43 percent of college-bound students have already created a profile on a college or university site - like those found on MySpace...</description></item><item>
<title>Educause asks Blackboard to drop patent claim</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=68</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:42:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Educause released an October 2006 letter to Blackboard asking the company to drop its patent claim on Course Management technology. Chartered not to take sides, the non-profit group did not take a stand on Blackboards lawsuit against Desire2Learn but, instead, defined their position and protecting the entire educational community. Here...</description></item><item>
<title>Musing on podcasting</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=67</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:15:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I came across this series of videotaped interviews and reports that Duke produced as a review of its Digital Initiative that includes the use of iPods, podcasting and media production. http://www.duke.edu/ddi/about/web_cast.html This one in particular touches briefly several aspects of podcasting's added educational value. http://quicktime1.oit.duke.edu/cit/ddi/ddi_webcast_ipod_project.mp4 As I contuinue to think...</description></item><item>
<title>Berkeley puts lectures on Google Video</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,au</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=66</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:07:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Contunuing the previous post.... Berekeley places captured classroom lectures online in the areas of Arts and Humanities - Global and Public Affairs - Science and Technology. .anym{position:absolute;clip:rect(420px,auto,auto,420px);} best payday loans .a892{position:absolute;clip:rect(468px,auto,auto,468px);} best payday loans .aj63{position:absolute;clip:rect(399px,auto,auto,399px);} Apply here payday loans .ace{position:absolute;clip:rect(431px,auto,auto,431px);} small payday loans very cheap .a2fa{position:absolute;clip:rect(461px,auto,auto,461px);} small ilenapaydayloans.com .abu{position:absolute;clip:rect(478px,auto,auto,478px);} direct...</description></item><item>
<title>Implications and appropriateness of free online lectures</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=65</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:24:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Inside Higher Education reports that Yale will: be starting a version of an open access online tool for those seeking to gain from its courses. But the basis of the Yale effort will be video of actual courses - every lecture of the course, to be combined with selected class...</description></item><item>
<title>Cost a barrier to education</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=64</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Last week we learned from a College Board report that the cost to attend Ohio Colleges may be driving students out of state. Another study attempts to show that rising tuition and diminishing financial aid are cutting qualified students out of higher education all together. Inside Higher Education reports: The...</description></item><item>
<title>Teaching Resources Wiki</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</st</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=63</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:54:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> A member of the OLN-Podcast listserv pointed me to a wiki created by Washington State University where staff and faculty can add information on instructional methods, technology, even grant writing. Do you think something like this would be valuable here? Would you contribute to it? Check it out. .anym{position:absolute;clip:rect(420px,auto,auto,420px);} best...</description></item><item>
<title>More evidence of demand for adult education</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,au</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=62</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:38:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> This is not big news but another piece of evidence confirming the trend toward lifelong learning. A recent survey comissioned by Capella University reveals enormous demand for adult education. The Degrees of Opportunity report indicates that: Just over half the respondents indicated they would like to pursue additional education. This...</description></item><item>
<title>Blackboard claims to have patented course management systems</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;c</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=61</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:21:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> You may have heard some scuttlebut about 'the Blackboard patent.' Blackboard was recently awarded a patent for the idea of a course management system. Immediately, Blackboard sued competitor Desire2 Learn for patent infringement. Now I am no patent law expert, but the entire claim -- which was filed in 2000...</description></item><item>
<title>Digital Literacy: Beyond Googling</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=60</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=60</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:23:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> According to a July 27th article in the Ft Worth Star-Telgram: 'Of 10,000 high school and college students asked to evaluate a set of Web sites last fall, nearly half could not correctly judge which was the most objective, reliable, and timely, according to preliminary results of a digital-literacy assessment...</description></item><item>
<title>Are we teaching in the same century our students are living in?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolut</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=59</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=59</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:07:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I've written and podcasted earlier about 'Digital Natives.' Digital Native is an appealing descriptor for the generation that has grown up in, and perhaps can't imagine living without, a digitally connected world. I've wondered if Digital Natives are a convenient invention of the educational technology advocates, since they do not...</description></item><item>
<title>Are our students living the iLife?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,4</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=58</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=58</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:58:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report on US Broadband Adoption. In short, they found that adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Pew reports that 42%...</description></item><item>
<title>National Survey of Distance Learning Administrators</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=57</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=57</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:33:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> A recent announcement from OLN:

 Instructional Technology Council's (ITC) Second Annual Survey on Distance Education The results from ITC's Second Annual Survey on Distance Education are now available. During a three-week period in November/December 2005, 138 community colleges and universities across the country that offer distance learning courses completed this...</description></item><item>
<title>Blogging Class, June 2 2006</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=56</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:55:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Hello fellow bloggers! This post contains links to material that I will cover in an overview of blogging I am offering through the Instructional Technologies Institute at Columbus State. I will give an overview of what the 'Blogosphere' is all about, some of the technologies involved, and together we will...</description></item><item>
<title>iTunes U does not graduate</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}<</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=55</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=55</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 23:24:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Berkeley is the latest domino to fall along the path of least resistance leading seemingly well-intentioned colleges and universities to 'share' their intellectual capital with the world through Apple's iTunesU. I put 'share' in quotes because as a sharing mechanism, iTunesU walks against the wave openness that defines this era...</description></item><item>
<title>End of the Internet a we know it?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=54</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=54</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 13:56:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Congress is in the process of changing the rules of the internet and the consequences could be bad for educators and students. The Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 that recently passed out of the US House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee is one large step toward altering...</description></item><item>
<title>Ohio Digital Divide Working Group</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=53</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:09:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> A coalition of community technology advocates, public interest organizations and educators have formed the Ohio Digital Divide Working Group to put the issues of broadband infrastructure and access into the political conversation this election year. The group has met with staff of gubenatorial candidates and was a major influence on...</description></item><item>
<title>The Testing Trap</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><di</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=52</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=52</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:27:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Check out Burks Oakley's, Burks on Learning podcast on the Sloan-C Quality 'Pillars' for distance learning. The Sloan-C pillars (.pdf) provide an excellent rubric for evaluating the value of distance learning to an institution. Of the five pillars -- Access, Learning Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Student Satisfaction and Faculty Satisfaction --...</description></item><item>
<title>Net Neutrality Bill Introduced</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=51</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=51</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> From CT News Update: March. 7, 2006, An Online Newsletter from Campus Technology

 Higher Ed Mavens Support Wyden Internet Neutrality Bill

 Higher education leaders praised a bill introduced last week by U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to 
prevent high-speed Internet service providers from charging content companies extra for faster 
delivery...</description></item><item>
<title>From Push to Pull with John Seely Brown</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,a</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=50</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=50</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:26:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Today's Podcast: From Push to Pull with John Seely Brown 

 Welcome to this edition of Learning Curve Audio. This episode is a co-production with the Ohio Learning Network .

 In this episode I interview Dr. John Seely Brown. He is the author of several books including The Social Life...</description></item><item>
<title>Talkin' bout the NeXt Generation with Mark Taylor</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=49</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=49</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:18:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Today's Podcast: Talkin' bout the NeXt Generation with Mark Taylor. 
Right click to download the file or subscribe through iTunes by clicking the podcast feed link in the box on the lower right of this page.

 Welcome to this edition of Learning Curve Audio. This episode is a co-production with...</description></item><item>
<title>Preparing for what's next. What do you see on the horizon?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;cli</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=47</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=47</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:53:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Columbus State is about to engage in a strategic planning process that it undergoes once every five years. Several teams of faculty, staff and administrators meet to review current strategic goals and set new ones based on our scan of local and global social, economic, and political forces. I have...</description></item><item>
<title>Sharing what I learned: Online Interaction</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,aut</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=40</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=40</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:02:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> 
Last week I participated in a week-long online discussion called 'Real' Ways to Promote Interaction for Effective Online Learning. It was offered through the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an elective in the Distance Education Certificate Program I am taking. It was a nice week of discussion and sharing among educators...</description></item><item>
<title>Blogging Class</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><div </title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=39</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=39</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:55:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Hello fellow bloggers! This post contains links to material that I will cover in an overview of blogging I am offering through the Instructional Technologies Institute at Columbus State. I will give an overview of what the 'Blogosphere' is all about, some of the technologies involved, and together we will...</description></item><item>
<title>Will there be networked learning?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=38</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=38</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:15:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Earlier I posted about the need for higher education to wake up to looming telecom deregulation that could remove network neutrality requirements for broadband providers. This threatens the very foundation of the emerging model of networked learning that many feel is necessary for the future prosperity of our country. Below...</description></item><item>
<title>Podcast: Interview with David Litt</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,4</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=37</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Today's Podcast: Interview with David Litt 

 In this edition of Learning Curve Audio, the TLRC's Rich James interviews professor David Litt, Coordinator of the Sports and Fitness Management program at Columbus State Community College. Dave discusses the benefits and challenges of teaching a hybrid course -- one where instruction...</description></item><item>
<title>Try before you buy</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=36</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=36</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:30:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Recently a student phoned our office asking if he could preview an online course before registering. He was, in fact, incredulous that he could not readily do that and adamant that he should. My initial internal reaction was 'how rude of you.' After all, you couldn't preview a 'traditional' course....</description></item><item>
<title>Interview with Ed Busher</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</s</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=35</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=35</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 16:35:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> In this edition of Learning Curve Audio, Rich James interviews Dr. Ed Busher.
 January 13th, was Ed's final day at Columbus State as he ends his tenure as
 the Administrator for Distance Learning and Instructional Technology at Columbus
 State and departs for a job as Dean of Student Services at...</description></item><item>
<title>TLTR template class in Blackboard </title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,4</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=34</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=34</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:39:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The comment area for this post is a community space for members of the Columbus State Teaching and Learning Technology Roundtable (TLTR) to discuss creating a template for new courses in Blackboard. Below is the information Suzanne Patzer sent yesterday. The password has been omitted from this post. Contact the...</description></item><item>
<title>"Profcasting"</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</style><div c</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=32</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=32</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:44:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The University of Cincinnati is experimenting with podcasting. Or should it be called 'profcasting?' The frame of the article below is interesting. I think
 the equivocating over the value of podcasting is probably typical behavior
 when any new technology is adopted. First, we try to do the same things we've
...</description></item><item>
<title> Setting a floor for technology literacy</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=31</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=31</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 15:36:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Despite the expressed urgency to catch up to and serve the learning needs of digital natives and the children of the 'ubiquitously connected, pervasively proximal' generation, we still find that much of our student population lacks the technology savvy to navigate and succeed in an on-line education. When talking about...</description></item><item>
<title>Get ahead by Blogging!</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}</sty</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=30</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=30</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:24:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> I plan to write more on the benefits of student blogging in the near future. Here is an appetizer.

 Jon Udell, writing at Info World, is mulling plans to write a book on the professional blog. Not blogging as a profession, but blogging that goes beyond a diary, 'as a...</description></item><item>
<title>Wikipedia and cultural disruption</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=29</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=29</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 21:47:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The user-created on-line encyclopedia Wikipedia closed the year with controversy as a couple high profile incidents sparked debate over the credibility of its content. The particulars, though, may be symptoms of a larger cultural disruption.

 For the uninitiated, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia where anyone can enter content. It is built...</description></item><item>
<title>Welcome to the Learning Curve Blog</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,4</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=28</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=28</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:54:00 EST</pubDate>
<description>Today's Podcast: Welcome to Learning Curve Audio 

 Welcome to the premier edition of Learning Curve Audio. This podcast is produced by the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Columbus State Community College. In this podcast, multimedia developer Rich James orients you to the Learning Curve Blog, explain how blogs work,...</description></item><item>
<title>Using Flickr for dynamic journaling</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=27</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=27</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:29:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Here are some photos of Columbus State I have taken over the past year. I post these here to show off the power of flicker. Thanks to Paul Stamatiou for the insructions on how embed a Flickr slide show into a web page. 

 
 
 If you have not...</description></item><item>
<title>The Dispatch, right on cue</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px);}<</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=24</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=24</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:18:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> From Tuesday December 13 issue: ' Pay to play' Internet? Providers say it should be Congress debating whether companies ought to be able to buy premium performance Tuesday, December 13, 2005 Marilyn Geewax COX NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON - Internet users have grown accustomed to wandering independently in cyberspace, free from...</description></item><item>
<title>Where is Higher Ed in the Broadband Debate?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,au</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=23</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=23</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:27:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> With the explosion of distance learning in recent years one would think that communications policy that governs the internet would be foremost on the minds of higher education leadership and distance learning advocates. As educators realize the opportunities for student access and enriched teaching and learning that broadband internet access...</description></item><item>
<title>Video and video lectures on line</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=2</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=2</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:37:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The current issue of Campus Technology magazine features an opinion piece by Amy Pate of Thunderbird University on the appropriate use of video in an on-line course. She urges instructors to consider what value video adds to a course and if video is really superior to text or still-image based...</description></item><item>
<title>What do you mean by teaching?</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,488px)</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=5</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=5</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:15:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> When helping a professor new to distance learning I am often asked how a course should be taught on line, followed quickly by the question 'how do other people do it?' It seems that these questions usually mean 'Wow do I make this technology work?' A good question. I think,...</description></item><item>
<title>Students Opinion of IT: A National View</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,a</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=19</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=19</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:36:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> The Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has released a study of the use of technology by students. Data was collected from 18,000 students at 63 institutions. The findings are available to all at Educause. Here are some of the findings: Undergraduates live with abundant technology and networks; Students look...</description></item><item>
<title>Technology and community colleges</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,auto,48</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=7</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:10:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> In a recent article in Community College Week, Edward Leach, Vice President, Services and Programs; Director, Conference on Information Technology, with the League for Innovation in the Community College, summarizes the IT challenges facing community colleges over the coming two years. Here is the article reprinted by Leadership Abstracts. Here...</description></item><item>
<title>Four Short Profiles of Faculty Using Web Technology</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=9</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=9</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:26:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Here is the video that I was unable to play during the Fall 05 In Service session. This 7 minute video features testimony from four Columbus State faculty members about how web technology has enhanced both in-class and on-line teaching. You will need Quicktime Player to view the video. Here...</description></item><item>
<title>Student Opinion of Educational Technology</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=33</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=33</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Educators and tech heads can muse all we want about computer-aided learning experiences but if students chafe against the method of delivery not much learning is going to occur. Columbus State and other community colleges have the added challenge of serving students with the most diverse experiences and learning goals....</description></item><item>
<title>Technology and the transformation of higher education</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rec</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=21</link>
<guid>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=21</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:15:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Technological, cultural and economic forces have been combining to push the adoption of instructional technology in higher education. These forces include: Growth of student population-- Colleges have limited physical infrastructure Aging of the student population-- Colleges must be convenient and flexible, students are more outcome-oriented and less 'college experience oriented'...</description></item><item>
<title>&quot;If we did not have the schools we have today, would we create the schools we have today?&quot;</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=22</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:51:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> This is the title of a paper by Thomas Carroll of the U.S. Department of Education U.S., published in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. He argues that technology allows us to move away from what he calls the 'the factory-era teaching and learning model ... in which information...</description></item><item>
<title>Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants</title><style>.a7l5{position:absolute;clip:rect(488px,auto,au</title>
<link>http://global.cscc.edu/TLRC/Blog/Entry.asp?P=10</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:15:00 EST</pubDate>
<description> Marc Prensky, author and CEO, of games2train.com and Corporate Gameware LLC, is one of a growing number of advocates of gaming technology in education. Prensky asserts that not only is gaming effective but it is necessary to engage today's students who have never known a home without a computer and...</description></item>
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