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Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

  • Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology

    Increased Structure and Active Learning Reduce the Achievement Gap in Introductory Biology It’s yet another article in Science dealing with pedagogy, and if the note in this news brief under “Teaching to Achieve” is right, it looks like the second vindication of Peer Instruction in Science in the the space of two months. According to Continue reading

  • U.S. College Tuition Rises 4.6%, Beating Inflation

    U.S. College Tuition Rises 4.6%, Beating Inflation It pays to read these things carefully. Tuition at private non-profit colleges increased at 4.6%, but adjusted for inflation this was a 1% increase, one of the smallest in the past 40 years. And again, these are published prices: student aid is up 7% which means this is less Continue reading

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  • Cockroach Performance Anxiety

    Cockroach Performance Anxiety Via Ariely, this great experiment on the social facilitation effect from the 60’s: cockroaches do better on simple tasks in the presence of other cockroaches, but worse in the presence of other cockroaches when the task is difficult:  However, research by Zajonc, Heingartner, and Herman (1969) argued that such conscious, cognitive processes Continue reading

  • Large Stakes and Big Mistakes

    Large Stakes and Big Mistakes I’m on vacation, and catching up with some reading. Dan Ariely’s book on the Upside of Irrationality is so far decent, though a little too chatty at times (I like a little less of the human interest backstory, YMMV).  In any case, one thing I plan to do over the Continue reading

  • Summary of research on student evaluations

    Summary of research on student evaluations Nice summary of research and issues regarding student evaluations. Of particular interest are the correllations between superficial attributes and end of semester scores. I’ve become interested in student evaluation partially out of my interest in the effects of the consumerization of HE. It’s at least a little bit interesting Continue reading

  • Practical Futurism Presentation

    Yep, it’s me, Mike Caulfield, and it’s a new blog. Don’t want to talk about it right now. Here’s slides with notes from my USNH AT Institute keynote.  I will have a slideshare version up with audio soon. If you want the narrative though, you can go here: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcb2rjpn_35cwwvftfq Where I wrote the presentation in Continue reading

  • Share Bigger Things

    (hoisted from the archives) Integration is hard, and it’s harder when you didn’t build the pieces yourself. Lately I’ve been trying to push people to think bigger about the sharing of OER, precisely because integration sucks. What do I mean? Well, your slides would be a lot easier for me to use if I had Continue reading

  • Health Care and Education

    When thinking about Higher Education, I find thinking about health care as a parallel instructive. Consumers don’t know always know what’s best for them in health care — studies show that they’ll rate inept doctors who are nice to them and give them what they ask for much better than doctors who actually cure them. Continue reading

  • In Praise of Factory Education

    Yes, I know the title is a bit #slatepitches. But I really mean it. As some of you know, I work at the same college I graduated from almost 20 years ago. I did a lot of stuff in between, but I ended up back here, in part because I really believe in state provided Continue reading

  • Sharing, Reuse, and Frameworks

    (hoisted from the archives) When it comes to OER, sharing, in general, is not the problem. Reuse is the problem. Anyone who has been working in the Open Education space for any length of time knows this, so I won’t go into it too deeply. But the key to everything is reuse, at least reuse Continue reading