- Technology Trivia
- Let’s be reflective about the technologies that are the chalkboards of our time, discuss (and write a post) the attributes of technology.
- Discussion of the readings and activities based on your blog posts. What are the assumptions left unexamined here and to what degree are they drawing on a theoretical orientation (other than your own)?
- We need to embrace some of these technologies and work towards synchronicity between quality and cost effective educations and stop leaving our economically disadvantaged citizens out of higher education, or saddling American youth with debt they will never balance out with meager entry level pay. (The Disruptors)Focusing on competency-based learning with actionable assessment results in testing-centered learning and teacher accountability-centered policies. (Group 2)
In order to provide education to large scale of people, different platforms and strategies are offered to compete for the market. (Group 4)
Whether it is a resident program, a blended program, or an online one, the expectations of the students will guide their perceived quality level of their education. This once again comes back to the original question of why universities exist and who their target population is. (Learning Avengers)
- We need to embrace some of these technologies and work towards synchronicity between quality and cost effective educations and stop leaving our economically disadvantaged citizens out of higher education, or saddling American youth with debt they will never balance out with meager entry level pay. (The Disruptors)Focusing on competency-based learning with actionable assessment results in testing-centered learning and teacher accountability-centered policies. (Group 2)
- We will kick of the First Cycle of the course. This cycle will deal with the MISSION OF HIGHER ED (Teaching, Learning, Research. Critical Issues: higher education as content providers, knowledge production/creation confined to an activity for the academic elite, and the research dissemination via academic publishers). Your Design Challenge for this thematic cycle is to develop a CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK dealing with these issues taking into account notions of technology, knowledge, learning, identity, community, design that will be due 2/17/2015.
Assignments/Readings due before next class:
- Readings (related to Community):
- Intro 1 to Ch. 4 (pgs. 45-121) in “Communities of Practice” by Wenger
- “The Web Is A Customer Service Medium” by Paul Ford
- Team blog post / comments with a focus on Community by 1/25 @ 5pm
- Comment on other groups’ Blog Posts by 1/27 @ 12pm
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