http://folksonomy.co/?rss=3564 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:46:37 +1000 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:46:37 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=1 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3279 Studio workshop classes such as SCALE-UP Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs give instructors another choice by replacing the lecture laboratory format with 4e6 hours of activity-based instruction per week typically in 2-hour blocks This format has several advantages over the traditional lecture laboratory format Because the entire class is taught in the same room with the same students and instructors in each class all activities including laboratory experiments can be arranged to build on one another in sequence for greater learning impact 14 than when some activities are taught in small sections running parallel to the lecture course When a lab section is taught as a separate course it is often weeks or at best a few days ahead of or behind the lecture and for some students the lab course is not even taken in the same term as the lecture Additionally even in an interactive lecture students can avoid instructors by hiding in the middle of the row away from the aisles In the studio format instructors can freely circulate and interact with any group at any time Robert Beichner and Jeffery Saul http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3279 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:46:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3238 Students get plenty of teacher interaction Finland and New York City have the same number of teachers But Finland has nearly half the number of students Standardized testing is kept to a minimum before a New York student reaches high school he or she will have taken 10 standardized tests Collectively US students take 100 million standardized tests a year Finland s only standardized test is taken when students are 16 years old Kids have more time to be kids an average us 5th grader has 50 minimum of homework per day Finnish students rarely do homework until their teens And while us elementary students average 27 minutes of recess students in Finland get about 75 minutes a day Finland knows good teachers are essential teachers in Finland are all required to have a Master s degree which is fully subsidized by the state OnlineClasses org 21 January 2013 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3238 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:46:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3135 Although there has been a long history of distance education the creation of online education occurred just over a decade and a half ago - a relatively short time in academic terms Early course delivery via the web had started by 1994 soon followed by a more structured approach using the new category of course management systems 1 Since that time online education has slowly but steadily grown in popularity to the point that in the fall of 2010 almost one-third of U S postsecondary students were taking at least one course online Fast forward to 2012 a new concept called Massive Open Online Courses MOOCs is generating widespread interest in higher education circles Most significantly it has opened up strategic discussions in higher education cabinets and boardrooms about online education Stanford MIT Harvard the University of CaliforniaeBerkeley and others have thrown their support - in terms of investment resources and presidential backing - behind the transformative power of MOOCs and online education National media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal the New York Times and The Atlantic are touting what David Brooks has called the campus tsunami of online education Unfortunately a natural side effect of this new interest in education and educational technology is an increase in hype and in shallow descriptions of the potential for new educational models to replace the established system All too often the public discussion has become stuck in a false dichotomy of traditional vs online - a dichotomy that treats all online models as similar and that ignores blended or hybrid approaches This false dichotomy is even more evident now that discussions are spilling into national media forums But in fact as my colleague Molly Langstaff has described educational technology is interacting with innovative educational courses and programs to create not only new language but also multiple models for delivering education Phil Hill 1 November 2012 Educause Quarterly http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3135 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:11:36 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3110 Art and design education has broadly settled on two categories of pedagogical frameworks both evolutions from historical precedents The first of these categories is driven by the spirit of the design collective and comprises the art school studio or atelier model This was established by the private Florentine art schools of the renaissance from around the 15th Century King 2003 always with a focus on making as well as learning from the group - from both peers and Masters Later this model of learning through practice carried over to the art schools of England in his 1858 inaugural address for the Cambridge School of Art John Ruskin Ruskin 1858 spoke about the relative futility of formal teaching per se and instead the pressing need for students to learn by repeated and applied making For applied craft and design this studio approach was the method under the influential Bauhaus School 1919-1933 in Germany Droste 2005 The second category derives from the teaching of industrial arts and is typically driven by the far greater student volume processing needs of the institution This category comprises the hot desking or increasingly the no-desking model with large taught classes in lecture format and occasional group tutorials Such a model is often the norm for universities academic courses The model spread to the creative courses that were more typically offered by polytechnics in the UK The first polytechnic dates back to the early nineteenth century Fox 1832-1854 although most were established in the 1960 s with a remit of applied education in industry and science for work In many countries the term technical college is the same as a polytechnic - in both the UK and Australia many of these colleges converted into universities in the last 30 years Ashley Hall and Tom Barker 2010 Hall A and T Barker 2010 Design collectives in education evaluating the atelier format and the use of teaching narrative for collective cultural and creative learning and the subsequent impact on professional practice In Alternative Practices in Design Past Present and Future H Edquist and L Vaughan Melbourne Victoria RMIT University Design Research Institute http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3110 Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:13:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3008 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Japan Proposals for In-Person Presentations Due 6 December 2012 The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices its associated design journals the On Design Book Series and the Design News Blog are sites of discussion which explore the meaning and purpose of design Participants in these forums also speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes The Conference Journal Book Imprint and News Blog support a cross-disciplinary knowledge community bringing together researchers teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical research and application market pragmatics and social idealism In professional and disciplinary terms the conference journals book series and online media traverse a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of anthropology architecture art artificial intelligence business cognitive science communication studies computer science cultural studies design studies education e-learning engineering ergonomics fashion graphic design history information systems industrial design industrial engineering instructional design interior design interaction design interface design journalism landscape architecture law linguistics and semiotics management media and entertainment psychology sociology software engineering technical communication telecommunications urban planning and visual design e to name some of the design disciplines Common Ground http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3008 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:22:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3007 VideoLectures NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences summer schools workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science The portal is aimed at promoting science exchanging ideas and fostering knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic contents not only to the scientific community but also to the general public All lectures accompanying documents information and links are systematically selected and classified through the editorial process taking into account also users comments Videolectures net http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3007 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:35:20 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3004 The adaptability necessary to succeed as a design or media specialist comes not only from deep disciplinary knowledge Graduates also need a breadth of knowledge and skills which some commentators have referred to as being T-Shaped These additional skills include the ability to work with and increasingly work across disciplines entrepreneurial attitudes and a knowledge of the business contexts in which they will operate All undergraduate Ravensbourne programmes incorporate curriculum and learning activities designed to develop these skills in our students Cross-disciplinary collaborative projects offer students the opportunity to work in teams with other disciplines The course structure draws on the creative synergies and frictions of the different disciplines at Ravensbourne and provides physical and intellectual opportunities for students to meet learn and work together with students from different disciplines Ravensbourne UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3004 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:58:08 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2988 The postgraduate system in the UK s universities is failing to produce the number of highly skilled staff needed by a modern economy a report warns The Higher Education Commission says the system is geared towards attracting overseas students rather than training more UK students The report warns that the UK is falling behind in investing in research A Department for Business Innovation and Skills spokeswoman said We recognise there are some concerns The study from the Higher Education Commission calls for urgent reform of the postgraduate sector saying that in its present state it will cause long-term problems for the UK s economy Postgraduate research has become increasingly important for innovative hi-tech industries Sean Coughlan 23 October 2012 BBC News http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2988 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:56:52 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2972 EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web Based on a long history of collaboration and their shared educational missions the founders are creating a new online-learning experience with online courses that reflect their disciplinary breadth Along with offering online courses the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learningeboth on-campus and worldwide Anant Agarwal former Director of MIT s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory serves as the first president of edX EdX s goals combine the desire to reach out to students of all ages means and nations and to deliver these teachings from a faculty who reflect the diversity of its audience EdX is based in Cambridge Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard edX 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2972 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:21:17 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2926 The Student Room is owned by a small but perfectly formed Brighton based company called Acumen PI but soon to morph into The Student Room Group We re all passionate about The Student Room and our sister sites and love working on them Generally we see our role as facilitators steering our sites forward in exciting ways but we re under no illusions that it s the community of members that make The Student Room special and unique in the vast world of social media Acumen Professional Intelligence UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2926 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:27:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2915 Date 24 Apr 2013 Location venue University for the Creative Arts Epsom Ashley Road Epsom Surrey England KT18 5BE The Group for Learning in Art and Design GLAD will be holding their 2013 annual conference on 24 April 2013 and is calling for case studies and research papers that explore three areas that are likely to change the future of English art and design higher education 1 Starting Changes to the school art and design curriculum and how the new English Baccalaureate and the demands it places on school timetables might crowd out of the curriculum offer in the arts How we might engage to redress this Speaker s from the school sector 2 Sustaining How we should evolve our working with students to support their learning and to address the data-led climate for student choice Speaker s from institutions that have improved their student experience data and are engaging with students in innovative ways 3 Succeeding What are institutions doing to support employability Case studies from graduates highlighting what was useful to them in securing employment plus speaker s from creative careers professionals We are looking for responses to these questions and themes with contributors offering the conference presentations papers discussions typically of 20 minutes duration UK Higher Education Academy http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2915 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:41:19 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2912 For the 2012 13 academic year NTU is introducing a new scheme for assessing undergraduate students work The scheme is known as grade-based assessment or GBA A major advantage of GBA is that it ensures that there is a direct link between the expected learning outcomes of the part of the course being assessed and what you the student have demonstrated in the assessment This short video explains this The specific arrangements relating to the assessment of a module will be set out in module documentation Previously assessed work was awarded a mark usually a percentage Following the introduction of GBA each piece of assessed work will be awarded one of 17 grades You will be informed about what is expected of you in order to achieve a particular grade This information will mean that feedback on your work will be clear and you will be able to evaluate your progress towards your final degree classification Nottingham Trent University This animated presentation provides an overview of the grade-based marking scheme which is being introduced at Nottingham Trent University for the 2012 13 academic year The presentation is clearly aimed at NTU students and refers to the university-specific VLE called the NOW - the NTU Online Workspace despite this the clip covers issues which I expect have more general relevance to students studying at other institutions http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2912 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:54:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2864 For students and lifelong adult learners we can think of such a permanent home domain as a personal learning environment PLE It is not one particular cloud app rather it is the pure web with a toolset enabling the person owner of that domain to constantly adapt it to new developments It grows with the person over time and constantly reflects new interior designs and remodeling as needed A PLE allows the owner of it to be a true author contributor and social interactor with the wider web ecology while still maintaining the stability of a personal home base on the web which is not dependent on the evolving marketing strategies of free portal services Unlike the exhibition model digital portfolios a PLE is much more naturally attuned to the authentic personal and professional needs of the owner Of course as in a digital portfolio we all like to naturally exhibit display new features However the passive role of an exhibit is only one of many features of a fluid PLE site Along with exhibiting this or that project a PLE might just as likely be hosting a discussion on a particular topic asking visitors to complete a quick survey providing a quick breaking news report about storm damage in one neighborhood contributing a how to screencast video on a recently learned techniqueathe possibilities are endless W3PLE 2011 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2864 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 01:40:11 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2863 Fig 1 George Siemens 2009 presentation Connectivism Socializing Open Learning VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2863 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:41:39 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2843 Stephen Downes is a senior researcher for Canada s National Research Council and a leading proponent of the use of online media and services in education As the author of the widely-read OLDaily online newsletter Downes has earned international recognition for his leading-edge work in the field of online learning He developed some of Canada s first online courses at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon Manitoba He also built a learning management system from scratch and authored the now-classic The Future of Online Learning At the University of Alberta he built a learning and research portal for the municipal sector in that province Munimall and another for the Engineering and Geology sector PEGGAsus He also pioneered the development of learning objects and was one of the first adopters and developers of RSS content syndication in education Downes introduced the concept of e-learning 2 0 and with George Siemens developed and defined the concept of Connectivism using the social network approach to deliver open online courses to three thousand participants over two years Stephen Downes http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2843 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:49:00 +1000