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Higher Education Technology Events at Penn
There’s never a lack of things to do to expand one’s mind at Penn! Here are some great events coming up that are relevant to anyone interested in engaging students through technology:
Penn UICONF 2010 – July 21 & 22 – Higher Education Web Symposium
HigherEdCamp Philly – A day long higher education technology unconference on [...]
Digital Nation on Frontline
In case you missed it, Frontline on PBS this week was “Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier” . The program covered a variety of topics of interest to those of us involved in technology and education, including
students’ perceptions of their ability to multitask compared to the realities of research on the subject
the perceived demand for [...]
The Future of Video in Education
In a New Media Consortium web conference tomorrow entitled The Future of Video in Education, Dr. Marni Baker Stein, Director of Program Development at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, will be speaking about our innovative use of open source video on the Penn LPS Commons using Kaltura.
Our “revolutionary video project” involved the delivery [...]
New report on the effectiveness of online learning
The US Department of Education released a new report on 6/26/09 concerning the effectiveness of online learning. This report is a meta-analysis which analyzes the results of prior studies.
The attention-grabbing headline of this report states, “The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction. The difference [...]
Instructional Technology Services & SAS Grant Opportunity
SAS Computing and other groups at Penn offer a variety of services to help faculty use technology in their teaching. These services can help instructors to more actively engage their students in their learning, to bring their research interests into the undergraduate classroom, or even just handle routine activities more efficiently.
We encourage you to visit http://www.sas.upenn.edu/computing/instructional for [...]
NMC’s Rock the Academy Virtual Conference
This news just in from the New Media Consortium: a virtual symposia exploring emerging forms of collaboration and tools. Anyone interested in co-presenting a project at Penn?
Rock the Academy
Radical Teaching, Unbounded Learning
The 12th in the Series of NMC Virtual Symposia
November 4-6, 2008, via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for Rock the Academy: Radical Teaching, Unbounded [...]
Open Textbooks
Flat World Knowledge offers a new approach to textbooks: open them up and bundle them with social learning tools. Founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank, two former textbook industry executives, Flat World Knowledge’s mission statement reads:
We preserve the best of the old – books by leading experts that are rigorously reviewed and developed to [...]
Online textbook rental
“Think NetFlix® for textbooks,” says Christopher Blythe, Founder of Skoobit, a college textbook rental service. According to Skoobit’s website, here’s how it works:
With two million books in its collection, pricing plans begin at $10.99 per book per month for four months. check out Skoobit’s website for more info.
How interesting do you think this service would [...]
Welcome to the PennEduTech blog!
Welcome to our new community blog site, everyone. Through the month of August we’ll be tweaking the initial design of the blog and talking with folks around campus, encouraging others to submit posts or make comments. Subscribe via email at the top of the page if you don’t want to miss all the excitement.
