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Professor Lewinâs videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have won him devotees across the country and beyond who stuff his e-mail in-box with praise. -
1votet least two companies now sell software to universities and other institutions that captures the words of classroom lectures and syncs them with the digital images used during the talk â usually PowerPoint slides and animations. The illustrated lectures are stored on a server so that students can retrieve them and replay the content on the bus ride home, clicking along to the exact section they need to review.
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At least two companies now sell software to universities and other institutions that captures the words of classroom lectures and syncs them with the digital images used during the talk â usually PowerPoint slides and animations. The illustrated lectures are stored on a server so that students can retrieve them and replay the content on the bus ride home, clicking along to the exact section they need to review. -
1voteAlthough few college students actually take cell phone calls in class, sending and receiving text messages during a lecture has become an acceptable part of cell phone culture, according to research from James Katz, professor of communications at Rutgers University and director of the Center for Mobile Communications Studies, and Jing Wang, a professor of Chinese language and culture at MIT.
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2voteIn the past three years alone, the percentage of college classrooms with wireless service has nearly doubled, to 60 percent from 31 percent, according to the Campus Computing Survey, an annual check by the Campus Computing Project of computer use at 600 colleges. Professor Bugejaâs online survey of several hundred Iowa State students found that a majority had used their cellphones, sent or read e-mail, and gone onto social-network sites during class time. A quarter of the respondents admitted they were taking Professor Bugejaâs survey while sitting in a different class.
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In this homespun setting, the spirited Dr. Duck pecks at a Toshiba laptop and posts lesson content, readings and questions for her two courses on âmanaging human resourcesâ that touch on topics like performance evaluations and recruitment. The instructional software allows her 54 students to log on from almost anywhere at any time and post remarkably extended responses, the equivalent of a blog about the course. Recently, the class exchanged hard-earned experiences about how managers deal with lackluster workers. -
1voteWhen Zachary McCune, a student at Brown, received an e-mail message from the university telling him he might have broken the law by downloading copyrighted songs, his eyes glazed over the warning and he quickly forgot about it. âI already knew what theyâd say about file-sharing,â he said. âItâs become a campus clichĂ©.â
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1voteEven the nationâs elite universities do not provide the technical training needed for the kind of powerful and highly complex computing Google is famous for, say computer scientists. So Google and I.B.M. are announcing today a major research initiative to address that shortcoming.
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1voteBordogna explained how the National Science Foundation had been lending support to schools that were trying to adopt reforms and foster an undergraduate experience that focused on learning through inquiry and discovery. Yet Milas understood that these programs were competing with a strong institutional inertia. Engineering schools had structured themselves, largely for the convenience of faculty, around a comfortable way of teaching but not the best methods of learning. There was too much note-taking in the classroom and not enough hands-on learning. Institutions stressed research over undergraduate teaching, because thatâs where the recognition and grant money come from.
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Transformational learning at an individual, organizational, or community level is difficult and rarely occursâexcept by coercionâunless desired, indeed invited, by the learner(s). Edgar Schein's research on transformational learning suggests that despite much press to the contrary, very few institutions are truly learning organizations. "Learning and the change that inevitably accompanies it is a complex process," he warns, "often more a source of frustration than achievement for groups and for individuals."
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