Comments on: Dave’s wildly unscientific survey of technology use in Higher Education

By: sean

sean — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:10:33 +0000

Do you use E-Portfolios at your university? If so, please tell us what you use and what the uptake has been like. Does it work well? Does it help or hinder ‘learning’?
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fwiw, i have yet to find peer-reviewed evidence that e-portfolios benefit students. often there are non scholarly journals (e.g., Learning and Leading with Technology) that tout the benefits as being that they help students get hired, but this hasn’t been demonstrated in any studies that i’ve read. i think e-portfolios are great for programs doing program evaluation, but is it fair to students to ask them to collect your key data for you?

By: brueckj23 (Jeremy Brueck)

brueckj23 (Jeremy Brueck) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:20:44 +0000

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:07:52 +0000

[...] plans for educational technology Dave Cormier has recently published a blog post titled Dave’s wildly unscientific survey of technology use in Higher Education. There’s a bunch of interesting stuff there. I especially like Dave’s note on [...]

By: alacre (Alastair Creelman)

alacre (Alastair Creelman) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:34:16 +0000

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laurapasquini (laurapasquini) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:33:14 +0000

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Strategic plans for tech in higher ed. on my wildly unscientific survey of higher ed. [link to post] (c/o @davecormier)

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By: Diego Leal

Diego Leal — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:53:04 +0000

Interesting results. I have the feeling they’re not that far away from what’s happening in Colombia. Is it possible to see the raw answers?

Lately I’ve been wondering a little about strategic plans. I wonder if an strategic plan becomes, in some cases, an instrument to “domesticate” technology… I mean, I agree about the usefulness of an strategic plan (if enforced), but I wonder if such a plan should be concerned with the strategic planning of change and the disruptive possibilities of technology. I guess it depends, obviously, on the vision of the people in charge of defining and enforcing the plan… Nevertheless, what if these plans are just a way to preserve a status quo (in learning terms, that is)? (This has to do with Papert’s ideas about the resistance of educational institutions to change)

The thing is that we started a couple of years ago a national project to help higher education institutions to define their strategic plans (about 60 working on that so far), so my doubts have to do with the real outcomes of such strategy…

Again, very interesting info! Kudos!

By: lapsedluddite (Karol Jurado)

lapsedluddite (Karol Jurado) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:35:39 +0000

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lmockford (lmockford) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:53:37 +0000

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By: robertj205

robertj205 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:17:23 +0000

I think this was a really good idea! Technology is so important in the classroom and it is good to see where different university’s stand. I think this is also a good way to see what is working well for what schools, and which software’s and technologies are most utilized. It can also help other universities and schools try different options that they may not have considered in the past, and it may also help them reevaluate that technologies that they are currently using. I would have never thought of doing an experiment like this, and even though its not “scientific” it is still a great start at research.