TRIPLED!! Or so you’d be led to believe if you were in the room at #WCET11 when Josh Jarrett of the Gates Foundation was speaking about High Quality Online Institutions that Scale. Apparently he said something that led to this tweet. Alarming stats via Josh Jarrett. Stud loan debt > $3 trillion. We're locked in [...]
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I’ve been doing some contract work for a college by building them a 5-module orientation for new online students. One module is an introduction to online learning which includes a section on the characteristics of a successful online learner. Another module is on academic honesty, which includes a great deal of information about plagiarism. While [...]
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Here’s a new infographic from OnlineCollege.org, via Edudemic: Connecting Education & Technology. I know that you can’t visit a website without getting slapped in the face by an infographic these days – well, now that includes Barry Dahl dot com. I look forward to the first interactive infographic – you know, one that you can [...]
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Earlier this week I was interviewed by Shawn and Mark of the Tightwad Tech Podcast at Element Opie Productions. That podcast was posted this morning (10/13/2011). My portion of the recording begins at the 12:30 mark. Listen to the Podcast at their site. A couple of points/corrections: I mentioned (off the top of my head [...]
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In a recent Educause Live webinar (10/10/11), Dr. David Wiley was speaking about “Openness: Decoupling the Future to Radically Improve Access to Education.” In that broadcast he used the slide below while stating that student loan debt exceeds mortgage debt. With all due respect to the learned Dr. Wiley, a man that I respect very much – ummh, sorry, [...]
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New feature released today at Screencast-O-Matic. Make an animated GIF. Here’s just a goofy little thing I recorded to try it out. BTW, the window cleaner overlay is mine, not from their site. Here’s a little video they made about animated GIFs. Here’s some info about the rest of their new features. They also have [...]
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This is the final post in the series of twelve. Unless I decide to keep going. All posts are categorized as $10K Degree. I’ve probably gone too far. I might have had a useful nugget or two, but I’ve probably taken these ideas to an extreme point where almost everyone will say something like: “That’s [...]
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Before I conclude this series of 12 posts, let me share some of the examples that I am aware of that have helped shape my thinking about what a new institution of higher ed might look like. Not all of these are low-price providers (see post #9 for more of those), but they have something [...]
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