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The Education Reform Challenge Question: “What should we do to create a strong US education system that works for all, that improves student outcomes and enables our country to regain its leadership position in the field of education?

My Submitted, Proposed, Education Reform Solution; Your comments are encouraged

Most ed-tech startups suck! Here’s where they’re going wrong. – Reynol Junco is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Reimagining Learning: Richard Culatta

Richard Culatta is the Deputy Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the US Department of Education

 

Fixing Schools

Katherine Merseth of the Harvard Grad School of Ed

 

Learning Strategies in 2012+

Building Motivation, Instilling Grit: The Necessity of Mastery-Based, Digital Learning

Find out what the experts are suggesting for advanced, individual, deep, long term, learning, transfer and application

Education Reform: Compiled by Tom McDonald, McDonald Sales and Marketing, LLC

105. Engineering

• Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research
• http://blogs.2elearning.com/2011/04/top-20-trends-in-enterprise-education/
• RJHS students reap benefits of engineering class
• MSOE: An Example of Education for Employability
• Engineering Building a Foundation in K-12 Curricula

106. Reimaging the K–12 Textbook in a Digital Age

107. How we’ll learn in 2013

108. Evidence Based Teachers Network

• Evidence Based Teachers Network

109. What kind of support do Online graduate students need?

110. Technology

• http://blogs.2elearning.com/2011/04/top-20-trends-in-enterprise-education/
• Five Principles to Radically Transform How We Teach Computer Programming
• Library to Launch Mobile Technology Education Series

111. Higher Education

• Liberal Arts Colleges Forced to Evolve With Market
• Competency-based public degree program moves forward – University of Wisconsin System reveals details about its flexible online degrees for working adults
• Higher education funding models changing
• More college instructors are ‘flipping’ the way they teach
• Disruption: Coming Soon to a University Near You
• 2012-2017 Trends and Challenges for AUS Tertiary Education
  • The Report
• A focus on skills increasingly links higher education with employment
• How to Pick a College: What the New York Times Missed
• Harnessing Campuswide Data for Student Success
• The End of the University as We Know It
• Reinventing higher ed
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• Supporting Adjunct Faculty: An Investment in Your Instructors, an Investment in Your Students
• Art of essay-writing damaged by Twitter and Facebook, Cambridge don warns
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• Will your College go out of Business before you Graduate?
• More proof that the economics of higher education must change
• Top higher-ed tech trends for 2013
  • Infographic
• Not Getting What You Paid For
• Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials
• Online Education Whitepaper (University Ventures)
• Does Mobile Enhance Social
• Higher Education Predictions for 2013
• Why are Recent College Graduates Underemployed?
  • The Report
• The week university (as we know it) ended
• Internships Help Students Prepare for Workplace
• Undergratuate Students and Technology (Infographic)
• The New Intelligence
• Finding More STEM Students
• How The 10 Most Innovative Colleges Use Technology
• U-Multirank is launched, 500 universities expected to sign up
• MSOE: An Example of Education for Employability
• Time to Play Offense
• The Problem With the School of One
• 12 Trends Transforming the Post-Sec Landscape
• The Definition Of Blended Learning
  • The Sloan Consortium:
    • Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States
      • The Report (March 2007)
• Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor
• My Valuable, Cheap College Degree
• Why the College Campus Experience Still Matters
• Community Colleges Make Case for Greater Public Investment
  • Community College Contributions
    • The Executive Summary
• What Undermines Higher Education
• The Internet will not ruin college
• The Gamification of College Lectures at the University of Michigan
• Why Is College Enrollment Dropping?
• Five Reasons College Enrollments Might Be Dropping
• Supporting International Student Success
• Politicians, Business Leaders Ask High Schoolers to Consider Community College
• The NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Higher Education Edition
• Wash. college to use web data to learn about its students
• Is your campus Web site ready for mobile? College-bound students are researching colleges via tablets and smart phones
• Transcript for Work
• CUNY’s Pathways Initiative and the Future of Higher Education Reform
• On Notice, Again
• In China, Families Bet It All on College for Their Children
• New development could help colleges improve student retention
• CRM software helps improve student recruitment, retention
• Student services model improves retention, satisfaction
• CLAY CHRISTENSEN: Higher Education Is ‘On The Edge Of The Crevasse’
• Obama’s Accreditation Proposals Surprise Higher-Education Leaders
• Responding to the fragmentation of higher education
• How Much Do Students Rely on WiFi Access on Campus? [Infographic]
• Remediation for High School Graduates: Why?
• The Trouble With Online College
• One Thing The For-Profits Got Right
• The ‘I’ in FIU
• World’s Would-Be Grad Students
• Beware The Collegiate Industrial Complex
• The Myth of the Student-Loan Crisis
• Many Students Don’t Need Remediation, Studies Say
• Community college grads out-earn bachelor’s degree holders
• The Way We Train Ph.D.s Drapes A Large, Cold, Wet Blanket Over Our Ability to Innovate Higher Education Infrastructure
• What College Graduates Lack
• Ensuring Academic Quality in Higher Ed
• Learning How to Teach
• The Professors’ Big Stage
• Opinion: The unquestioned assumption of online education
• Redefining College-Ready
• Mobile IT in Higher Education, 2011
• 2013 Series: Responding to the Commoditization of Higher Education
• Why Rethinking Developmental Education is a Priority
• Infographic: The Future of Higher Education
• University accountability: why not let the public track performance?
• Online and open-access learning in higher education
• Help Wanted | Education ‘badly managed,’ college says
• Where Higher Education Went Wrong
• Beyond the Credit Hour
• What’s the Value of a College Degree?
• How four tech-savvy colleges advance student learning with technology
• LMS secures results for online institutions
• How college websites influence students’ web experience
• College Rankings Aren’t Meaningless; They’re Just Misleading
• Guest Column: Only Regents Can Reform Higher Education
• Court Throws Huge Wrench in Higher Education Transparency Efforts
• Report Identifies Pitfalls in Students’ Academic Journeys
• College Navagator
• Hiring in Higher Ed: Surprising Power of Data (Slideshow)
• Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key Factors
• Got college? Hiring standards are rising
• Report: Lack of Vocational and Career Education in California Leads to Severe Skilled Worker Shortage, Billions in Lost Income
• Using Flipped Learning in the College Classroom
• Contingency Plan: Outsourcing Education
• Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop
• Oh the Places You Will Go! How Your College Choice Affects Your Career
• The Importance of Being Driven by Data in Higher Education
• Digital Research, Not Teaching
• Employers Want Broadly Educated New Hires, Survey Finds
• Colleges Must Prepare for a Buyer’s Market
• Text Messages Can Increase Enrollment of Low-Income Students
• Infographic: How One Small School Improved Student Retention
• Stretching the Higher Education Dollar: Addressing the Declining Productivity of Higher Education Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Research? Most people cannot understand it
• University establishes flipped learning training center for faculty
• Teachers: Will We Ever Learn?
• Are Students Ready for College? High School Teachers: Yes; Professors: No
• Is Higher Education the Next Bubble? I Hope so
• Questioning the Mission of College
• System Failure: The Collapse of Public Education
• Innovation and the future of universities
• Will university campuses soon be ‘over’?
• How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model
• Advice for Smart Students on Succeeding in College
• Higher Education CIOs 2013 Technology Spend Priorities
• 5 of the smallest tech-savvy campuses
• Charting The Insanely High (And Rapidly Rising) Cost Of College
• What skills do MBA students really need?
• WSJ Article: The Vanishing Diploma
• 41% of college grads overqualified for what they do
• Are Americans Rethinking Traditional Higher-Ed?
• The College Degrees Employers Seek
• Colleges In U.S. Offer Highest-Ever Discount to Entice Students
• Selingo’s new book dissects the ‘decay’ of modern-day higher education
• Almost Half Of Recent Grads Regret Choosing Their School Or Major
• How High School Students Use Social Media in their College Search [INFOGRAPHIC]

• Admissions (Lead Generation and Recruit Management):

  • Getting Students’ Attention without Wearing Out your Welcome
  • The Next Big Thing in Enrollment Management
  • Duke Admissions is Tweeting, Blogging and Posting
  • College Admissions Trends 2013 – Part 1 of 4
  • College Admissions Trends 2013 – Part 2 of 4
  • College Admissions Trends 2013 – Part 3 of 4
  • The Three Biggest Lies in College Admission
  • Enrollment Management Must Build for the Future, Experts Say
  • Why have university admissions become so competitive?
  • University recruitment: one fifth of students say social media doesn’t work
  • UC Merced goes from shunned to popular
  • What We Don’t Talk About on the Admissions Tour

• Registration and Payments

• Alumni

112. Philadelphia School District Plans to Close Dozens of Schools

113. GATES: The Government Alliance for Training & Education by Satellite

114. GETN: Government Education and Training Network

115. How Can School Systems Continue to Improve? IES to Find Out

116. 11 States Get Failing Grades on Public School Policies From Advocacy Group

117. Fewer Incoming College Students Need Remediation, Research Shows

118. Here Comes 2013: The Big Themes in Learning

119. Instructional Design: (Web category with multiple posts; lower left, page bottom, click ‘older entries’ for additional posts)

• Instructional Design: 7 Critical Questions for eLearning Developers
• Learning Strategies in 2012+
• Gamification: Why Games Don’t Teach
• Interactive Online Characters
  • Research
    • Interactive Characters: Online Benefits
    • Digital Tutors are More Effective When They Resemble Students
    • Animations: When to Use Them and When to Lose Them
    • Leveraging Words and Visuals in Training
• 10 New Year Resolutions for ELearning Developers
• Brain Based Learning: 12 Design Principles Based on Brain Based Learning Research
• TPACK 101: This video podcast describes the importance of integrating technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge into classrooms (TPACK)
• Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching
• Blended Learning Is Better than Instructor-led or Online Learning Alone
• What are the differences between long-term, short-term, and working memory?
• Learning Theories
• Pedagogy vs. Andragogy
• Learning: Traditional Learning vs. Accelerated Learning
  • Accelerated Learning: Accelerated Learning Resources
• Going Beyond E-learning Authoring Tools – Let Content (and appropriate pedagogy) Rule!
• 15+ eLearning Storyboard Templates
• Learning Transfer: 10 Critical Components that Guarantee Learning will Stick (Transfer)
• Converting Classroom Training to Virtual Instruction: Some Tips
• Video
  • Video Learning: Learning Research on Video Learning
  • Video in training and education
• A focus on skills increasingly links higher education with employment
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
  • Don’t forget individual ongoing reinforcement, if appropriate and be sure not to teach directly to individual learning styles
• [INFOGRAPHIC] Instructional Design Model: Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction
• What if web based software seamlessly integrated appropriate instructional design pedagogy?
• A Learner-Centered Approach to Multimedia Explanations: Deriving Instructional Design Principles from Cognitive Theory
• e-Learning and the Science of Instruction
• Building-Expertise-Cognitive-Methods-for-Training-and-Performance-Improvement
• LEARNING BY VIEWING VERSUS LEARNING BY DOING: EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES FOR PRINCIPLED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
• Visual Researcher Extraordinaire
• Book Review: Teach Beyond Your Reach
• Kenya School Report – Resources
• Effective Use of Performance Objectives for Learning and Assessment
• How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning
• The ASTD Competency Model
• Are You Developing Learning by the Numbers?
• [INFOGRAPHIC] How to Use the PAF Model to Improve Training and e-Learning
• 62 Tips on Effective eLearning Instructional Design
• What is the Tin Can API?
• Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques
• What Do People *Really* Think About That Course You’ve Designed?
• 10 Ways to Ruin Your e-Learning by Following Commonly-Held Practices
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• Research for Practitioners: How Expert Designers Design
• Bloom’s Taxonomy: What’s Old Is New Again
• The New Intelligence
• The Center for Accelerated Learning
• Process the Common Core
  • Process the Common Core 1
  • Process the Common Core 11
  • Process the Common Core 111
• Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire’s Competency-Based System
• Technology integration by design
• Research for Practitioners: How Expert Designers Design
• 7 Essential Principles of Innovative Learning
• How-To Adult Learning
• Understanding Pedagogy and its Impact on Learning
• A Learner-Centered Approach to Multimedia Explanations: Deriving Instructional Design Principles from Cognitive Theory
• Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement
• e-Learning and the Science of Instruction
• LEARNING BY VIEWING VERSUS LEARNING BY DOING: EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES FOR PRINCIPLED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
• Visual Researcher Extraordinaire
• Interactive Multimedia-Based E-Learning: A Study of Effectiveness
• Infographic: How to Implement Blended Learning
• ‘Big Three’ Publishers Rethink K-12 Strategies
• Aspiring teachers ill-prepared to use ed tech effectively
• Storyboarding in the Software Design Process
• Technology Integration Research Review
• Individualized program showing signs of success in West Allis-West Milwaukee schools
• eLearning vs. eKnowledge
• The virtues of confusion
• Time to Develop One Hour of Training
• Why Games Don’t Teach
• How to Engage Learners with Scenario-based Learning
• Do Online Agents Improve Learning?
• Instructional Design.org
• Choosing the Right Tool for the Job: 2013 Update
• A Learning Science Alternative to Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Kirkpatrick’s Four Level Evaluation Model
• Cognitive Task Analysis in Instructional Design: Mapping the Performance
• The Ugly Truth of Technology Integration
• Opinion: You can lead a class to technology but only pedagogy makes kids think
• “Measuring Quality from Inputs to Outcomes: Creating Student Learning Performance Metrics and Quality Assurance for Online Schools”
• When Designing eLearning, Remember the “Inner Child”
• Displaying Text With Visuals: What Are the Best Practices?
• Nuts and Bolts: Design Assessments First
• Marc My Words: Practice Makes Mastery
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Instructional Designers
• Types of Blended Learning [INFOGRAPHIC]
• Strapping Jet Engines to Stagecoaches; or iPads in Schools
• Research for Practitioners: When It’s Not a Knowledge Problem
• What the Latest Brain Research Tells Us about Designing Learning that Sticks
• A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods

120. Facilitating/Coaching

• Role of Coaching Expanding, Leading to the Emergence of Coaching Cultures Within Organizations
• Learning Transfer: 10 Critical Components that Guarantee Learning will Stick (Transfer)
• TEDxWilliamsport – Dr. Derek Cabrera – How Thinking WorksWe learn by doing. Um…no we don’t
  • DSRP
  • Cabrera Research Lab
• An Insiders Peek Behind Online Learning & Education – Book Review
• Sticky objectives
• Tennessee tries innovative approach to boosting student achievement
• Leveraging Social Presence in Asynchronous Training
• Facilitating Online Communities of Practice – Lessons Learned
  • The Report
• Top 20 Best Books on Coaching and Mentoring
• MENIFEE: Coaching program aids teachers, students
• The New Intelligence
• Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching with the New Version
• 20 Tips On How To Work With Students Who Have a Hard Time Collaborating
• ‘Coaching Is Harder Than I Thought’
• 10 tips for effective coaching
• Role of Coaching Expanding, Leading to the Emergence of Coaching Cultures Within Organizations
• K u r t S q u i r e ‘ s H o m e p a g e
• 3 Tips for working with a facilitator – An elearning Instructor’s Perspective
• Accessible Online Courses: Techniques and Tips

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