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Randy Pausch's Boldest Innovation
A central concern with MOOCs and other student directed learning experiences is that by decentering the traditional gatekeeping role of teachers, such experiences lack an authoritative center for determining the rigor and depth of a course as well judging the mastery of learning outcomes by students. In a traditional one-to-many style of pedagogy, teachers simultaneously perform the roles of content creator, disseminator, and arbitrator of student success. The basis for academic rigor is based on structures such as the credit hour – students meet for three hours a week, complete three hours of homework between meetings, and repeat this cycle for 15 weeks.
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What will be the Impact of the National Election on Higher Education?
All eyes in Washington, D.C., are now firmly focused on the national election in the weeks leading up to November 6th. We asked representatives of higher education associations for their perspectives on the impact of the election on higher education. The results of those interviews are shared in this video.
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What ConnectUGA is About
One of the more memorable experiences from earlier in my career was sitting with the Director of Human Resources at Texas A&M and hearing her recount a frustrating experience she had had with the IT director managing the University’s payroll system. She and I were talking about a project to better manage the University’s classification and employment records and she was telling me about her need for authoritative data about employees. What she got from the payroll system wasn...
What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties: A Hearing
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 the Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing of the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law entitled, “What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties.” Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) spoke about the need for tight rules on facial recognition software. He said that the privacy and legal implications surrounding facial recognition technology remain murky. The committee questioned...
All Together Now!
Collaboration. Convergence. Community. Each is important not only to higher education information technology as a profession but also to EDUCAUSE as an organization.
We have spent the past year collaborating on how best to converge various EDUCAUSE publications (EDUCAUSE Review, EQ, EDUCAUSE Now) into a format that will allow us to both experiment with innovative digital tools and release...
Clarity, Honesty, and Steadfastness
Don’t expect a lot of consistency if you ask CIOs whom they should report to.
Is reporting to the President (or Chancellor / CEO) necessary to be effective as CIO? Some CIOs I know aspire to report to a President because of the perceived credibility and political heft that comes from reporting to the top. Others I know say that it only needs to be one of the three primary C-level executives (President, Provost, or CBO/CFO/COO) but not necessarily the President. The latter view is...
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