My Diigo 03/27/2011

• Disrupting College
  Higher education changes to online education
  • Online learning appears to be this technology enabler for higher education. It is for the first time disrupting higher education—and indeed helps explain much of the rapid growth in the up-start for-profit higher education sector over the last 10 years, even as many colleges and universities have struggled financially and had to cut back. Roughly 10 percent of students in 2003 took at least one online course. That fraction grew to 25 percent in 2008, was nearly 30 percent in the fall of 2009, and we project it will be 50 percent in 2014.1
  • organizations to serve a job to be done in the lives of customers at this new lower price point or in this new, far more convenient fashion without extra cost.
  • its processes, where it happens, and what its goals are—and to use the disruptive start-up organizations to create institutions that operate very differently and more appropriately to address the country’s challenges
  • allows for an escape from the policies that focus on credit hours and seat time to one that ties progression to competency and mastery. Online learning courses can easily embed actionable assessments and allow students to accelerate past concepts and skills they understand and have mastered
• Safer 2.0 Tools for Schools? « Floyd Bob’s Blog
  Wireless network any device!
  Floyd is working with a school in GA that is currently implementing both a 1 2 1 and wireless network roll out.
  tags: 1:1 wireless school
  • 1-2-1 laptop initiative in Clayton
  • how do we create a wireless environment both in and outside of school that will promote a greater level of engagement in the learning by students and teachers” T
  • with laptops but any wireless device
  • Enter- Saywire.com
  • mix of student friendly tools without much of the back end work that many tools require
• Technology Bond Issue
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    • Bond - TechHow can we get reluctant memebers on board? Show them how it is going to benefit them and make their teaching relevant and exciting.Kirk - Financial LitJohn - Video

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