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Are To Many Students Going to College

Dwayne Harapnuik — November 9, 2009 — Leave a comment

http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Too-Many-Students-Going-to/49039/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

Are Too Many Students Going to College? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

The Chronicle of Higher Learning Chronicle Review addresses the question of Who Should and Who Should Not be Going to College. While there is no definitive answer to this question the debate addresses many pragmatic, social and moral issues related to this question.

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Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014

Dwayne Harapnuik — October 29, 2009

Most College Students To Take Classes Online by 2014 — Campus Technology via kwout

David Nagel of Campus Technology refers to a market research report from Ambient Research that points to the their Chief Research Officers claim:

by 2014, at which time, Adkins forecast, only 5.14 million students will take all of their courses in a physical classroom, while 3.55 million will take all of their classes online, and 18.65 million will take some of their classes online.

While I am not surprised by these claims I and led to ask: What are we doing to prepare for this?

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StudyWiz – K-12 iTouch Enabled Tool

Dwayne Harapnuik — October 7, 2009 — Leave a comment

One of the biggest challenges that we are seeing with K-12 institutions planning to deploy an iTouch solution in schools is that they must highly regulate their learners access to the internet and are not able to use cloud resources like Gmail, Google Apps, YouTube and many of the tools that we take for granted in higher education. To successfully deploy a mobile solution K-12 need to replace or replicate the cloud. StudyWiz may be the ideal solution to do just this. It not only provides an email, file management, document sharing and a communication platform it more importantly allows schools to closely control how students access these resources.

The initial demonstration that I viewed at HandHeld 2009 looked very promising but we now need to look at the product much closer and see if we can use it in the College of Education at ACU to help prepare future teachers who may be facing this tool in the field.

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Off to Europe

Dwayne Harapnuik — October 6, 2009 — Leave a comment

I will be leaving on for a trip to Europe that will start off in London, and include meetings with Cambridge University Press in Cambridge and then finish off with meetings with Alcatel Lucent’s Bell Labs in Paris. There should be an opportunity to take in the final day of the HandHeld Learning conference in London — more specifically take in the presentation by my collegues George Saltsman and Scott Perkins and the final keynote address by Ray Kurzweil.

Despite the high degree of cellular access in Europe free WiFi isn’t as available so my posts may be intermitent and totally dependent on my access.

Stay Tuned…

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Microsoft Tablet – A History of Speculation

Dwayne Harapnuik — October 5, 2009 — Leave a comment

Jason Hiner of Tech Republic’s Tech Sanity Check pulls together a wonderful history of links on the speculation over the Apple Tablet. Are we any closer to an Apple Tablet. Was a rumored mass purchase of 10 inch touch screens just that, a rumor, or will we see an Apple Tablet release perhaps in the new year? I won’t speculate but simply point to Hiners article and give you the option to make your own decision.