News and Tips for Higher Ed Pros

Note from Karine: This year, I’ve asked all the eduWeb speakers working in universities/colleges to share in 140 words or less the biggest take-away from their presentation or table talk. If you’ve attended this session, feel free to weigh in by posting a comment, a question or a suggestion.

SOLSTICE is a model for ‘intelligent deployment of technologies’ involving ‘New Academic Teamwork’ grounded in multi-professional pedagogic design approaches.

The dialogue is characteristically:

• Between members of New Academic Teams
• Constructively aligned (Learning-Teaching-Assessment-Evaluation, Research)
• Bespoke Tailored to enhance learning (through alignment of Purpose (P = Learning) with Audience (A = Learners) to determine the Form (F= of Technology Deployment)
• Enhancement and dissemination focused
• Informed by teaching and learning approaches utilising higher order cognitive processing approaches and language interactions.

This organizing ‘P+A ⇋F’ algorithm is the mechanism for focusing dialogue for design and research in all SOLSTICE activities and is related to notions of active learning and pedagogies associated with dialogue and construction of knowledge. Activities are informed by, and generative of, research and scholarship across the P, A and F dimensions.

• eduWeb 2008 in 140 words - From Dull Edge to Cutting Edge by Amy Stevens, Web Communications Manager at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
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• eduWeb 2008 in 140 words: High Tech and High Touch: Integrating the Web and Print Using Variable Print Technology by Dr. Cam Cruickshank, VP for Enrollment Management at Tiffin University
• User-created content, social networking, mobile phones and virtual worlds will be widely adopted in higher ed within 3 years
• 3 questons to a higher ed blogger: Will Richardson, the K-12 guru blogging at “Weblogg-ed, the read/write web in the classroom”