Here’s a sample of articles, blog posts, reports and web resources that CIT consultants and staff are looking at this month on teaching, technology and higher education trends.
Got an interesting article or blog post you’re reading? Send us a link at learninginnovation@duke.edu.
Teaching and learning trends
- The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever (Wired, 3/20/2012)
- Khan Academy: The future of education? (60 minutes report, 3/11/2012)
- KhanAcademy Enters Next Era with iPad App (Fast Company, 3/10/2012)
- Why Every University Does Not Need a MOOC (Inside Higher Ed – Technology and Learning blog, 3/6/2012)
- Adventures in Wonderland: Massive Online Courses Not Game Changing Innovation (Inside Higher Ed, 2/3/2012)
- Disrupting Ourselves: The Problem of Learning in Higher Education by Randy Bass (pdf file) (Educause Review, March/April 2012)
- Imagining the Future of the University (Chronicle of Higher Education-ProfHacker blog, 3/15/2012)
- The Ed-Tech MacGuffin (Inside Higher Ed – Hack Higher Education blog, 3/23/2012)
- Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle (Chronicle of Higher Education – Wired Campus blog, 3/26/2012)
- Blackboard, Moodlerooms and Netspot: First Reactions (Inside Higher Ed – Technology and Learning blog, 3/26/2012)
- Going the Distance: Online Education in the United States, 2011 (Sloan Consortium report)
- Ed-Tech: Always on the Horizon (Inside Higher Ed – Hack Higher Education blog, 2/18/2012)
- NMC’s New List of Metatrends–It’s Not Just About the Technology (Campus Technology, 3/21/2012)
- Thinking (Strategically) About Badges (Hack Education blog, 3/4/2012)
- Education Innovation ‘Beyond the Hole in the Wall’ (Inside Higher Ed – Technology and Learning blog, 3/20/2012)
- What Higher Ed Can Learn from Encyclopedia Britannica (Inside Higher Ed – Technology and Learning blog, 3/14/2012)
Faculty teaching ideas
- The LectureFail Project: Students and Professors Sound Of on the State of the College Lecture (Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/24/2012)
- Better Training Appears to Reduce Student Cheating (Duke Today, 3/26/2012)
- Who Cheats, and How: Arizona Survey Examines Student Cheating and Faculty Responses (Inside Higher Ed, 3/16/2012)
- Teaching Large: Educators Hear Advice on How to Teach Large Courses (Inside Higher Ed, 2/7/2011)
- Class Problem: How Should Faculty Deal with Classroom Disruptors (Inside Higher Ed, 3/26/2012)
- Context: The Difference Between Success or Failure in Distance Learning Programs (Distance Education Report, Magnum Publications, 2011)
- Blended Learning Course Design Creates New Opportunities for Learning (Faculty Focus, 3/19/2012)
- TED moves toward the classroom with the launch of TED-Ed (Ars Technica, 3/13/2012)
- TED Launches TED-Ed to Help Spread Lessons Beyond the Classroom (Campus Technology, 3/21/2012)
- Diagram library for better slide shows (Boing Boing, 3/27/2012)
- Flipping the Conference (Hack Education blog, 3/15/2012)
- Groupthink: The brainstorming myth (New Yorker, 1/30/2012)
- The Rise of the New Groupthink (New York Times Sunday Review, 1/13/2012)
Teaching with technology
- Social Media as a Teaching Tool (Campus Technology, 3/12/12)
- How Educators are Using Pinterest for Showcasing, Curation (PBS Mediashift blog, 3/20/2012)
- The Promise and Perils of Pinterest (Scientific American blog, 3/16/2012)
- Teens, Smartphones & Texting – Pew Internet & American Life Project report (3/19/2012)
- University of Chicago Study Demonstrates Efficiency Gains From Using iPads in Medicine (iMedical Apps, 3/13/2012)
- Pearson Foundation Survey Shows Boost in Tablet Ownership Among Students (Campus Technology, 3/15/2012)
- Tablets Haven’t Killed the PC Yet (Campus Technology, 3/20/2012)
- Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata (TechCrunch, 3/20/2012)
- Virtualizing the Science Lab with Late Nite Labs (Hack Education blog, 3/1/2012)
- Boise State U Replaces Cadaver Lab with Virtual Anatomy Tool (Campus Technology, 3/21/2012)
- ‘Personal Cloud’ to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner (Wired Cloudline blog, 3/12/2012)
- Is This the Last iPad That Really Matters? (iPad 3 Review) (Wired, 3/19/2012)
- Museum of London Releases Augmented Reality App for Historical Photos (PetaPixel blog, 5/24/2010)
Ebooks and etextbooks
- Make Your Own E-Books with Pandoc (Chronicle of Higher Education-ProfHacker blog, 3/20/2012; mentions Duke faculty member Kieran Healy)
- “Life on Earth”: The Future of Textbooks? (Download the Universe Science ebook Review, 3/19/2012)
- McGraw Hill Thinks New iPad Will Be Ticket to E-Textbook Revolution (Talking Points Memo IdeaLab blog, 3/12/2012)
- What’s Wrong with the Department of Ed and FCC’s Digital Textbook Push (Hack Education blog, 2/3/2012)
- The Truth About Tablets: Educators are getting iPads and ereaders into students’ hands – but it’s not easy (The Digital Shift, 2/1/2012)