App Review

IEAR
From their website....
I Education Apps Review is now a community of over 500 educators, administrators and app developers.

Site includes reviews of apps, cool tools, app grading, student reviews, search field, and app of the week to name a few features.

Facing Higher Education's IT Funding Future
March 1, 2012
Campus Technology

Gilfus Education Group
5 Higher Ed Tech Trends for 2012--Campus Technology
http://www.gilfuseducationgroup.com/5-higher-ed-tech-trends-for-2012-campus-technology

Policy Challenges in Online Learning

From Educause Policy Matters
 Educause Online Learning Challenges: State Authorization and Federal Regulation
by Jarrett Cummins
October 24, 2011
"In the interim, traditional colleges and universities will continue to face the unintended consequences of federal action in the form of increased financial and administrative burdens, providing significant motivation for collective engagement by federal, state, and institutional stakeholders to develop a regulatory structure that works for online learning."

Twitter

Twitturly - watch the most popular url postings

How To Twitter by Julia Angwin

Twitter Info from CrunchBase

Open EducationIncreasing College Completion Rates--Wrong Policy Emphasis?

Sir Ken Robinson
Youtube on Creativity

Committed Sardine

The 21st Century Fluency Project

Presentations 2009-2010

•Madison Distance Learning Conference; Pre-Conference Workshop and Lightning Session, Aug 2010

•Sloan-c Emerging Technologies Conference, July, 2010

•Blended Pre-Conf Invited Workshop Sloan-C ALN, Oct 2009

•Faculty Dev Invited Session Workshop Sloan-C ALN, Oct 2009

•Mentoring Online Session Sloan-C ALN, Oct 2009

•Faculty Dev Post-Conf Workshop Sloan-C ALN, Nov 2009

•Pre-Conference Workshop and Session, Annual Conference on Distance Learning and Teaching, Madison, WS, Aug 2009

•Social Media Online 10 day Workshops Sloan-C, June 2009

•Pre-Conf Workshop, Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Conference, San Francisco, June 2009

Lumina Foundation, FAQ on Bologna and Tuninghttp://www.luminafoundation.org/our_work/tuning/Q_and_A-Bologna_and_Tuning.html

National Association of College and University Business Officers
Come Out Strong  by Margo Vanover Porter
Article published December 2009; article includes four possible scenarios for recovery from recession

Retain Critical Capital Projects
Recession as Opportunity
Scrutinize Costs
Rumor vs. Reality
Seeing It Through

Presentations 2007-2008

• E-Learn, Las Vegas, NV, November 2008

• Sloan-C, Workshop, Workload, August 2008

• Annual Conference on Distance Learning and Teaching, Madison, WS, August 2008

• International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, April 2008

• TechEd, Ontario, CA, Inter-institutional Partnerships, April, 2008

• NERCOMP, Faculty Development Workshop, Boston, MA, April 2008

• Sloan-C Workshop, Assessment, January 2008

• IETC, Springfield, November 2007

• ALN Conference, November 2007

• ACCE, E-Learn, Quebec, October 2007

• Sloan-C Workshop, July 2007

• Academic Impressions, June 2007

• CADE, May 2007

• International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, April 5, 2007

• SITE, March 28, 2007

• Ed Tech, Ontario, California, March 26, 2007

Mashable's list of 13 alternative to Powerpoint
http://mashable.com/2008/02/16/forget-powerpoint-online-presentations/

A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/v/dGCJ46vyR9o

"...Moreover, the report finds, colleges and universities “have yet to catch up with the burgeoning demand for new learning options, especially programs for career transitions."

Center for Lifelong Learning
http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/CLLL/index.htm

Statistical data on higher education.


Higher Ed Info.org
http://www.higheredinfo.org/analyses/

Measuring Up
http://measuringup.highereducation.org/

"United States is losing ground to other industrialized nations. Over several decades, we’ve slipped from first to seventh among the nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in the percentage of adults aged 25 to 34 with bachelor’s degrees and to ninth in the number of adults in that age range with at least a high school education."

http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=18300&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

"Degree completion is most affected by SES, high school-based academic resources, degree aspirations, enrollment patterns, taking college courses in math and sciences, financial aid, and having children while attending college."

Pathways to a Four-Year Degree: Determinants of Degree Completion among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Students http://35.8.168.242/paperdepot/2003cabrera.pdf

Only 21% of American adults over the age of 25 have a bachelor's degree or better.

Swail, W.S. (2002, July/August). Higher education and the new demographics: Questions for policy. Change, 15-23.http://lists.eou.edu/archive/ctl-group/d20034/0019.html