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https://iated.org/iceri/
ICERI2021, the 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation will be held in Seville (Spain) on the 8th, 9th and 10th of November, 2021.
ICERI is one of the largest international education conferences for lecturers, researchers, technologists and professionals from the educational sector. After 14 years, it has become a reference event where more than 800 experts from 80 countries will get together to present their projects and share their knowledge on teaching and learning methodologies and educational innovations. The 2021 edition of ICERI is sure to be among the most successful education conferences in Europe.
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After Verizon 5G Dreamscape:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/04/02/verizon-5g-dreamscape/
Improved Student Engagement in Higher Education’s Next Normal
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/3/improved-student-engagement-in-higher-educations-next-normal
We define student engagement as a constructivist approach to teaching and learning: less “sage on the stage” and more learning by doing.
Digital collaborative technologies embrace three important student engagement objectives: connecting students with the content, with the instructor, and with one another, within and across groups. Formulating, sharing, and getting feedback on responses benefits all students by increasing the exchange of ideas and approaches to the given prompt, helping students develop critical thinking skills through thoughtful peer review and analysis, and engaging them with timely feedback from expert instructors. Retaining these “blended learning” practices and additional affordances post-pandemic is worthwhile as we move to the next normal.
The five teaching enhancements/adaptations discussed above—collaborative technologies for sense-making, student experts in learning and technology, back channels, digital breakout rooms, and supplemental recording.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=student+engagement
What to Say Instead of ‘I’m Proud of You’
https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-say-instead-im-proud-you
1. ‘TELL ME MORE’
2. ‘YOU MUST FEEL…’
3. ‘WHAT DID YOU DO TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN?’
4. ‘I APPRECIATE…’ OR ‘I ADMIRE…’
A dozen years ago, Richard Rothstein wrote an excellent paper called “Holding Accountability to Account,” showing how incentives can perversely affect and undermine the goal that are sought (it is free on the internet).
In 1990k Andrea A. Gabor wrote a book about W. Edwards Deming called The Man Who Discovered Quality, in which she explained Deming’s contempt for merit pay and bonuses, which cause employees to think about themselves and not about the organization and its larger purposes.
Muller wrote a recent article about “metric fixation” in which he reviewed the flaws of data-driven work
“When reward is tied to measured performance, metric fixation invites just this sort of gaming. But metric fixation also leads to a variety of more subtle unintended negative consequences. These include goal displacement, which comes in many varieties: when performance is judged by a few measures, and the stakes are high (keeping one’s job, getting a pay rise or raising the stock price at the time that stock options are vested), people focus on satisfying those measures – often at the expense of other, more important organizational goals that are not measured. The best-known example is ‘teaching to the test’, a widespread phenomenon that has distorted primary and secondary education in the United States since the adoption of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.”
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The real devil behind rise in academic cheating during pandemic isn’t online learning: expert
https://nationalpost.com/news/the-real-devil-behind-rise-in-academic-cheating-during-pandemic-isnt-online-learning-expert
“There was about 20 years of research before the pandemic that showed that there was less academic misconduct in online courses compared to face-to-face learning.”
tudents were “forced into online learning when they didn’t want to be,”
tudents become easy prey for a US$15 billion global industry specializing in “contract cheating,”
Countries like New Zealand, Ireland, Australia are already ahead of the game, with legislation making it illegal for contract cheating businesses to operate.
U.K. is catching up, having tabled similar legislation.
But Canada has been slow to address the problem
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The attacks are coming from both the right and the left.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/academic-freedom-is-on-the-ropes
Stanley Fish, the literary theorist and veteran administrator, and a visiting professor of law at Yeshiva University, in New York City, thinks that most if not all academic-freedom controversies are simply unnecessary. His argument boils down to academic freedom as “the freedom to do the academic job” — no more, no less.
The assumption antagonists make, says Tiede, is that if a professor expresses a view in a public forum, she or he must be indoctrinating students. But to take punitive action, he says, a college should have to prove that there is inappropriate indoctrination in the pedagogical setting.
academic freedom diminishes not so much as a result of oppression but as stable academic jobs simply disappear. To balance their books, colleges are increasingly culling tenure lines and consolidating or eliminating departments. To fill the gap, in remote or hybrid programs, they share courses or even entire academic majors from other institutions.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=academic+freedom
Strategic IT Leaders Between Pandemic and Post-Pandemic
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/5/strategic-it-leaders-between-pandemic-and-post-pandemic
The effective IT leaders who made strong impressions on me when I was a president or provost were those who actively listened to non-IT discussions, asked clarifying questions, and—either in the moment or as a follow-up communication—
digital transformation (Dx). To help these efforts, EDUCAUSE has created a “Dx Journey Map.” It offers an elegant, visual way of telling the story of digital transformation to non-IT campus leaders.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=leadership
UC Berkeley Will Auction NFTs for 2 Nobel Prize Patents
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/05/28/uc-berkeley-will-auction-nfts-2-nobel-prize-patents
Nonfungible tokens — called NFTs for short — are units of data stored on the blockchain that are unique and not interchangeable. As NPR recently explained, a $10 bill, which is fungible, could be exchanged for two $5 bills. An NFT is one of a kind, more like a barcode.
The public research university, according to a press release, is auctioning the NFTs for the patent disclosures of two Nobel Prize-winning inventions: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, for which UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; and cancer immunotherapy, for which James Allison shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The university will continue to own the related patents.
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=blockchain