December, 2001

Editor's Corner 

More URLs for the holiday season.

Happy Holidays,

Bruce

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us

Faculty View

AAUP

• Women in Higher Education

  • *Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work

• Statement of Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure on "Academic Freedom in the wake of September 11, 2001." Endorsed by AAUP National Council, November 11, 2001.
  

AFT - Higher Education Dept

• Part-Time Faculty

  • *Marching Toward Equity: Curbing the Exploitation and Overuse of Part-time and Non-tenured Faculty (pdf file)
    

THE NEW GENERATIONS:  STUDENTS WHO DON’T STUDY 

Student View

National Survey of Student Engagement

• **Improving the College Experience: Using Effective Educational Practices (pdf format)

  • 2001 NSSE Viewpoint Improving the College Experience: Using Effective Educational Practices (PDF file)
  • Press release regarding the release of the 2001 report

Maryland Higher Education Commission

• Student Guide to Higher Education and Financial Aid in Maryland  (PDF format)

Assessment

Computer Assisted Assessment (CAA) in relation to Learning Outcomes

Faculty Resources

Learning and Teaching Support Network  "The LTSN is a major network of 24 subject centres based in higher education institutions throughout the UK and a single Generic Centre. It aims to promote high quality learning and teaching through the development and transfer of good practices in all subject disciplines, and to provide a 'one-stop shop' of learning and teaching resources and information for the HE community."

• The subject centres
  • *List of subject centres
• Generic Centre
  • Network Initiatives 2001
    • Subject Benchmarking
      • Resource Area
        • 'Implications of benchmarking for curriculum
          design and the assessment of student learning.' Dr Norman Jackson
        • 'Assessment Issues arising from the benchmarking statements.' Professor Mantz Yorke

Teaching Tips Archive

How Psychology Can Contribute to the School-to-Work Opportunities Movement:
Report of the School-to-Work Task Force

• Age-Appropriate Assessment

• Learning

The Technology Source (Nov/Dec 2001)

• Using Online Resources to Promote Active Learning in Physics Teaching

• Computer-Based Technologies in Foreign Language Education

• Taking Technology to the Classroom: Pedagogy-Based Training for Educators

• Toward More Effective Instructional Uses of Technology: The Shift to Virtual Learning
  

Tutorials

*Smart Computing  This site has an outstanding Search the Archives.  For example using Search= Word Processing I found 351 articles in their archives.

Higher Education

MHEC (Maryland Higher Education Commission)

• OFFICE OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH

  • 2001 Data Book

  • *2001 Trend Book

K-12  

National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER)

Tapped In

Distributed Education

MHEC (Maryland Higher Education Commission)

• 2000 Distance Education Survey  (PDF format)

Community Colleges Turn to High-Speed Network for Distance Education

Regional Accrediting Agency - Documents on Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs

• Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs (pdf format)
  

*The E-learning E-volution in Colleges and Universities: A Pan-Canadian Challenge [PDF document, 1136 Kb], Feb. 2001  

"The resulting expansion of online learning will significantly increase demand for people with the skills to implement, manage and evolve e-learning environments. Already, such people are in short supply and this shortage will only intensify unless there is a significant increase in the number and capacity of the educational programs to impart these skills. There is, in short, a real need for serious investments in these programs, not just by governments, but also by the private sector and institutions."

Columbia U. Makes a Third Foray Into Distance Education  (The Chronicle, 11/15/01)  "Columbia University, which already is involved in two high-profile distance-education ventures, has opened a portal site that collects and showcases various online courses, course Web sites, publications, and e-learning resources available through the university."

• Columbia Interactive

MOOs and MUDS

enCore - open source MOO project

Instructors Try Out Updated MOOs as Online-Course Classrooms  (The Chronicle, October 24, 2000) "Early MOOs weren't very user friendly -- users had to learn written commands to move around the system. In the past few years, however, several educators have updated MOOs for the multimedia age by adding Web-like interfaces that let users move among rooms by clicking on icons. And many of the new systems also allow professors to incorporate still images and video clips."

Lingua MOO - an academic virtual community  "Lingua MOO functions as both a learning environment for our students and a broader community for research and collaboration on projects situated at the intersection of Arts & Humanities and electronic media."

Teaching with Technology 

Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning Technologies

Learning Objects

A Primer on Metadata for Learning Objects -Fostering an interoperable environment

Web Page Design

Learning Circuits

• *Web, Enabled  (November, 2001)  "Here's a snapshot of Web accessibility resources, tips, and views."

e-Learning 

Keeping up with Technology -Guidelines for developing simulation-based learning, by Jeff Carpenter, October, 2001

Trends?  

Software

Some I.B.M. Software Tools to Be Put in Public Domain

Leverance

Hardware

PC Vintage: Full-Bodied, Mellow Price

Postcard from the Future: Chipping off the old block

COMDEX: Gates keynote touts Xbox

Internet  

Web Powers Fighter Project

Wireless 

When Will Business Get With The Program?