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IGNOU starts ‘learning revolution’ through 100 community colleges
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NEW DELHI – The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Saturday started 100 community colleges to bring a learning revolution among under-privileged students across the country.
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Introducing BuddyPress – Create your own Social Network – 1 Translation(s) | dotSUB
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Google Wave Will Be Designed For Money-Making (which is not evil)
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Create Free Online Polls | Web Polls Maker, Create Poll Software
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http://etherpad.com/aEsPrRZ3AP
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10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 3) | gram consulting
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10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 2) | gram consulting
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10 Strategies for Integrating Learning and Work (part 1) | gram consulting
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Open Source Bridge is a Huge Success
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We want people to experience something beyond “how to use tool X” or “why databases keel over when you do Y” (even though those topics are important, making up our tools and trade, and will be a central part of the conference content). We’d like to share what open source means to us, what it offers, where we struggle, and why we do this day in and day out, even when we’re not paid for it.
- Is this what is missing from NECC? More than just the tools and trade talk? The big divide between open and closed systems in education will come to a head. – post by tellio
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it seemed important to bridge the kinds of roles we have in open source, user/contributor/owner/institution, getting down to something more fundamental. What else are people who interact in this multi-directional way? Perhaps we’re citizens. Not residents–we do more than live here. We are, like citizens of a country, engaged in the practice of an interlocking set of rights and responsibilities.”
- Moving from self-actualization toward duty toward “others” including folks we choose to friend and those we don’t. – post by tellio
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Organizers formed a non-profit organization and the call went out to find volunteers. Citizens responded immediately and there was even support from the city government. Overall, “thousands of hours went into creating this event, all unpaid. Several people who contributed were new to open source development…and made a huge impact anyway”.
- This is what I hope we can do with TheBigTent. – post by tellio
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Franken’s Victory Bolsters Democratic Grip in Senate – NYTimes.com
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After nearly eight months of waiting, almost 20,000 pages of legal briefs, and millions of dollars in election costs,
- What is wrong with this picture? Top down party politics from Chuck Shumer and the DNC made it impossible for Kentucky Democrats to field a decent candidate so I am forced to conclude that the two party system is what’s wrong. And the biggest stumbling block to change–incumbency. Solution might be, in part, term limits. I know that means losing the likes of Russ Feingold, but it also means that Kentucky could get out from under the grip of McConnel and Bunning on the Senate side and Rogers and Chandler on the House side. – post by tellio
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In weeks past, some Republican leaders had urged Mr. Coleman to press on to the federal courts if need be, but those calls faded Tuesday.
- The lesson here for Democrats? Never give up. Put your money where your mouth is. Fight for your people and keep fighting. – post by tellio
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“The Supreme Court of Minnesota has spoken, and I respect its decision and will abide by the result. It’s time for Minnesota to come together under the leaders it has chosen and move forward. I join all Minnesotans in congratulating our newest United States senator — Al Franken.”
- A mouthful of bitter for Coleman, one of those Senators whose whining over the last year has reeked of self-indulgence and entitlement. The voters spoke eight months ago so why does the NYT allow this guy a pass. – post by tellio
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“When you win an election this close, you know that not one bit of effort went to waste,” said Mr. Franken
- Spoken like someone who is already running again. I wonder if his truncated term will give voters the feeling that he needs a full term when he comes up for re-election. This recount destroys any chance that Coleman could challenge again. Republicans aren’t very good at the unintended consequences game. – post by tellio
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With 60 votes (including those of two independents) now most likely aligned with the Democrats, the party could avoid filibusters.
- Assumes party discipline and a willingness on Obama’s part to call Dems out if needed and punish if called to do so. He hasn’t shown much stomach for this yet. – post by tellio
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Mr. Coleman, who some in Minnesota were already speculating might run for governor in 2010
- I cannot hope that he would make it past the primary. – post by tellio
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After so much turmoil, the phone call was warm and gracious, Mr. Franken said, adding later that he had recalled thinking in the midst of it: “This is nice. This is a nice way to end it.”
- And there it is- that damned club. We are damned if we cannot get this notion out of Washington. The sick, entitled sense that any guild gets when it invests a new member. Now you are one of us so you have to follow our rules foremost and not the rules of those you are constituted to serve. – post by tellio
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Join the Complexity Society
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Dean Kamen developing eco hybrid that will run on anything that burns
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The origins of BSOS – Bright Shiny Object Syndrome « Open Monologue
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WWIII Propaganda: Someone Tweeted on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Picasa Web Albums – Flock Photos – Flock Photos
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WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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WWIII Propaganda: Google Earth on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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News: U.S. Push for Free Online Courses – Inside Higher Ed
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Community colleges and high schools would receive federal funds to create free, online courses in a program that is in the final stages of being drafted by the Obama administration.
- This is overdue for high schools. My question here is this: who will manage the systems involved? Local servers? In the cloud with someone like Amazon s3? – post by tellio
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reach more students and to link basic skills education to job training.
- Fits Kentucky’s higher ed mandate. Now how shall we provide the necessary ‘learning brokers and concierges” needed to imagine this into being? – post by tellio
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John White, press secretary for the Education Department
- Flack? Of course. – post by tellio
- John White has joined the U.S. Department of Education as Press Secretary. White was Chief Communications Officer for the Prince George’s County (Md.) Public Schools. Before that, he worked at AAA Mid-Atlantic and also served as Press Secretary to Maryland’s Secretary of State. – post by tellio
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the federal government pay for (and own) courses that would be free for all, as well as setting up a system to assess learning in those courses, and creating a “National Skills College” to coordinate these efforts, the plan could be significant far beyond its dollars.
- Effects on existing systems–developmental courses in community colleges, lack of experience with online learning systems. – post by tellio
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and offer them free — and is also pushing that movement in the direction of community colleges.
- Who will teach these free courses? Who will they be affiliated with? How does this affect university bottom lines especially those whose bottom lines have come to increasingly depend upon tuition from students who have been able to borrow cheaply? – post by tellio
- If these free courses are used to keep from having to pay bucks for general education and developmental/remedial courses, what will this mean for those teaching these courses now? – post by tellio
- so – post by tellio
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“This is so spot on in terms of what’s needed,” said Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University at Bloomington and author of The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education (forthcoming from Jossey-Bass).
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the impact of bringing free online courses to those who may need basic skills and job training could have much more of an impact than the free courses from elite universities.
- A very appropriate area for research–who can predict now what will happen? Don’t we need to hypothesize b4 we spend? – post by tellio
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the impact on the individuals and the economy could be huge.
- Ilich’s Convivial Tool – post by tellio
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According to the draft materials from the administration, the program would support the development of 20-25 “high quality” courses a year, with a mix of high school and community college courses. Initial preference would go to “career oriented” courses. The courses would be owned by the government and would be free for anyone to take. Courses would be selected competitively, through peer review, for support. And the courses would be “modular” or “object based” such that they would be “interoperable” and could be offered with a variety of technology platforms.
- In writing terms what are “career-oriented” courses?
Resume writing?
Essay writing?
Web skills?
Research skills?Where do we help folks become better people? Is that any of our business? Is this the death of the university? – post by tellio
- In writing terms what are “career-oriented” courses?
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work to develop examinations that could be given at the end of the courses so that colleges, employers and students could judge how much learning had taken place.
- OK. there it is–the agenda item that I had been waiting for, the corollary to NCLB– a national higher ed curriculum. – post by tellio
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And the National Skills College would work to promote programs that might mix the free courses with tuition courses so students could earn degrees at lower cost.
- Please, limn out the consequences. Don’t just do it. Nike be damned. – post by tellio
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t would be open to public agencies and to private for-profit or nonprofit groups.
- I cannot help but think this is a process ripe with possibilities for corruption and rife with those who are good at gaming the system with rigged research and glossy applications and money to beat out those who might have better courses not packaged as well. – post by tellio
- Bias toward those who are good at jumping through the hoops of federal grant writing. – post by tellio
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Martha J. Kanter,
- http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-martha-j-kanter/0/938/bb7 – post by tellio
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the Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources, which has pioneered the idea of making textbooks and other course materials for community college students available free and online.
- And they have a Ning site:http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/ – post by tellio
- The consortium seems well thought out: http://oerconsortium.org/
And it is grand to think that such folks have made their way into the Obama UnderSecy circle. – post by tellio
- Here is a textbook that was developed. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/tour05.html – post by tellio
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“It’s time for this,” he said.
- Homogenizing toward the best? Fine if we know they are the best, but my experience in these matters indicates transitional certainty at best. In other words, everything I know is wrong. – post by tellio
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‘Hey there are these courses now available for free’ is going to create incentives for lots of laptop programs to appear,” he said.
- And there is a whole new layer of devices in the technopolis that offer other affordances (smartphones, netbooks, library internet access, community wi-fi) that if beefed up could really make this happen. – post by tellio
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The discussion draft for the job training program calls for spending $500 million a year in the first five years of the program, during which grants would be awarded competitively to community colleges, and $1.3 billion after that, at which point 50 percent of funds would be awarded by formula to states, 25 percent awarded to those states showing high performance programs, and 25 percent to community colleges, awarded competitively.
- The carrot – post by tellio
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To be eligible, community colleges would need to agree to track and report on student outcomes, and to set targets for graduation rates and “employment-related outcomes,” while also serving “high need populations.” Funds could then be used to create programs that “blend basic skills and occupational training,” to provide “comprehensive, personalized services to help students plan their coursework and careers and support services that will keep them in school,” and to create programs in partnerships with employers
- How they must sing for their supper. Not exactly a stick, but indirectly a big one for those administrators who fail to belly up to this bar. – post by tellio
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The loan fund for community college facilities would receive $10 billion under the plan.
- Ahhh, bricks for clicks. – post by tellio
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States would distribute funds based on “demonstrated need,” with an emphasis on expanding capacity in programs that “meet employer needs in the areas of health care, green jobs, science, engineering and technology.”
- Seems like a godsend to anyone wanting to teach or create learning objects/courses in nursing, sustainability, solar and green retrofitting, and access/training for using the online tools needed to make this work. – post by tellio
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but that they were generally encouraged by the ideas in play.
- They smell that 10,000,000,000 bucks in the air. The 50,000,000? Well, just look at the zeroes, dude. So as I understand it we create the courses for the National Skills College and they will come? I can see lots of ancillary benefits much like we got when we called the Interstate Highway System a national defense project, but need I point out the downside of that system. And who is considering and talking about these long terms effects especially in rural areas where many of these students expect to be. – post by tellio
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He said that colleges are being forced to turn students away, “which is the wrong thing to be doing in this economy,” and that the funds for job training programs could help community colleges educate more people, and help them prepare for good jobs.
- Yes, this happened here at my university. They raised admission standards in an attempt to stabilize student enrollment. Why? Because funds were static and everyone knows what happens to university programs when too little money chases too many students-the degradation of existing programs under the increased enrollment pressure. – post by tellio
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Boggs said that his association has estimated a $100 billion need for new community college facilities,
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Boggs also noted the unusual prominence that the administration is giving to community colleges as institutions that can help deal with the country’s economic mess. “I think the spotlight is really shining on community colleges right now,” he said.
- Not really so surprising given Obama’s community organizer orientation. Public policy is taking a much needed turn to the 80% who might benefit immensely from such programs. (That 80% figure is simply a blind obeisance to Pareto.) – post by tellio
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Web 2.0 Keychain Users – iConnect iLearn in the 21st Century
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This is a place for users of the keychain to share your versions and your experiences!
- Kevin H
Informal leadership activity
Certification/authentification activity
Informal learning
What emergent activity might this be evidence of? – post by tellio
- Kevin H
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Deer Tick on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
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What can Google forms do for you and 800 students all at one time?
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Iran: Crackdown on Dissidents Silences Opposition | theTrumpet.com
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ehran’s brutal crackdown on Iranians protesting against the country’s June 12 election results, which has largely succeeded in clearing the streets, has received extensive media coverage around the world. At the same time, however, the Iranian authorities have been conducting another crackdown behind the scenes that is perhaps more consequential.
- The opposition in Iran might be said to be informal in many ways. Who leads in their Twitter Revolution? – post by tellio
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Eat This, Not That – The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution From Men’s Health
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Busch Ice
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Dirt and Dust – Schott’s Vocab Blog – NYTimes.com
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed protesters as “dirt and dust,”
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The phrase (khas o khashak in Farsi) has become a badge of pride.
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“His reputation is expanding faster than the universe.”
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50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
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Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and
- This is pretty cool – post by tellio
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Learn English vocabulary and spelling at home with award-winning new technology.
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- A great collection of smartboard teaching tips, ideas, and lesson ideas. – post by tellio
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My Languages: Skype Interview : Social Bookmarking – Annotated
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Teaching resources on line and Web2.0.Indexing, bookmarking and folksonomy
- http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://www.epi.asso.fr/revue/articles/a0704c.htm – post by grahamperrin
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Is tagging a cognitive activity ? Does tagging force you to reflect on categories to find the correct key word?
Yes, but I feel that it remains quite personal too. Lately, I attended an Elluminate session on tagging for Flickr. We were asked to tag a picture and we then compared all the different words and categories suggested-fascinating… For photos the choice of categories is maybe wider but I believe that we also get the categories to fit our needs. The question is always: if I want to find this again to do… what key word do I need?- This would be a valuable icebreaker in a social networking class. – post by tellio
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» NECC 2009 Attendees | Program | Search Results Details
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How do we break down the isolated, teacher centered classroom
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NECC 2009 Attendees | Program | Search Results Details
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How do we break down the isolated, teacher centered classroom and create a learning environment for the 21st century?
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Tales of Strange Chickens–taken from the PasturePoultry Group on Yahoo
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PasturePoultry : Message: RE: [PasturePoultry] Re:Speckled Communist Americauna – Barbara and Connie
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A few years ago several chickens fell out of a truck hauling them to
slaughter. They ended up living in the median of I-5 near an overpass.
Since there was room to pull over, people started to put out food and water
for them. They lived there happily for months. I don’t know if they were
finally picked up or got squished; the highway department wanted them gone
because locals would slow down to look for them and they were a traffic
hazard. And the highway department guys are locals, too, so I am guessing
they caught them. I never saw them squished, and they were big birds when
they grew up – Cornish crosses.Alice Royle
Union Point Custom Feeds
Brownsville, OR
www.unionpoint.com
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Op-Ed Columnist – Invent, Invent, Invent – NYTimes.com
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We need everyone at every level to get smarter.
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