Purpose
Research Question:
How can the College's Graduate/Professional Studies programs be enhanced or reconfigured in order to meet the changing needs in Northeast Ohio?
This is an attempt to capture my research process and to share my research findings with as many people as possible. My project goal is to research workforce needs and economic development projections in Northeast Ohio in order to provide recommendations for program enhancement, particularly in Graduate and Professional Studies.
I chose to conduct my project in this public manner in order to explore one aspect of the type of technologically integrated learning for which I am advocating. I have not blogged before, so bear with me.
Early posts merely reflect information gathered. As I progress, my later posts will be more analytical and synthetic. I invite any and all comments, thoughts, musings, questions, and connections. The more personal input I receive, the more meaningful my recommendations will become.
If I have learned anything in the past few weeks, it is certainly that there are many important things that I just don't know, so help me out if you see the need.
Please click on the links that are in (almost) every post to get detailed information from the source itself.
Best Practices in 21st Century Skills
- Using Wikis as Electronic Portfolios for collaborative work employ Web 2.0 capabilities in the service of knowledge creatioon and knowledge expression produced from group work
- Personal e-Portfolios developed either throughout one course or - perhaps more compelling - throughout the college experience allow a student to maintain a living document of academic progress, findings, research. reflections and growth. This could be useful in a job search, and, for Graduate students in particular, would serve as a timeless snapshot of graduate work/thought/research/curiosity/process/intellectual fire!
- 3D Virtual Environments (Second Life, Active Worlds, Central Grid, Kaneva, Twinity, CyberNet Worlds, The Palace, Furcadia, and Project DarkStar) are at the cutting edge of classroom technology.
- The TLT Group lists ideas for encouraging student to student collaboration using technology, including web quests, discussion boards, and group web page construction.
- The TLT Group also points out that technology integration in the classroom allows instructors to create a more inclusive or diverse learning environment, one that, by virtue of multifaceted presentation, is perhpas more effective at engaging all students
- Creating a Ning site for faculty members or for Graduate classes - one can set up a social networking site that is limited to certain participants - a sort of Facebook with academic perameters and only open to students/faculty here
- From Classroom 2.0, educators offer ideas about the Web 2.0 tools that they use in the classroom, inlcuding Google Notebook, Google Reader, Del.icio.us, podcasting, wikispaces and more
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