Survey Results are based on the following responses as of January 27, 2012:
Students – 321
Faculty – 31
Staff – 12
Mobile-Enhanced Inquiry-Based Learning: A Collaborative Study (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE via kwout
Abilene Christian University’s (ACU) mobile-enhanced inquiry-based learning (MEIBL) is a blended learning strategy which creates an active and engaging learning environment, producing increased student engagement, maintenance of academic performance and improvements in student persistence and course completion. MEIBL addresses the greatest barriers for inquiry-based learning, minimizing time requirements of providing differentiated instruction and providing the fundamental guidance necessary for the inquiry process. Time saved on information transfer through MEIBL strategies enable faculty to mentor learners to engage course content at a deeper level.
Perhaps the most exciting part of the MEIBL initiative is that it can be replicated or extended to almost any learning environment. While Delmar College (DMC) in the southern Texas, and California University (UCal) of Pennsylvania are the first two formal partners in the ACU MEIBL research project the program principles found on the MEIBL site can easily be extended to any other post secondary institutions.
Jeff Selingo makes that argument that control of the parchment (accreditation) and governmental funding of student aid as the only reasons our current Higher Education system is able to sustain it centuries old traditions of having:
professors at the front of a room or at a table with an average of 16 students in front of them.
Selengo points to several examples of disruption outside of academia StraighterLine, the Khan Academy, and Badges to certify skills as well examples inside academic like MITx and Udacity.
Is the perfect storm of change brewing for higher-ed? Time will tell but when you consider the following, something has to give: ubiquitous access to information through the internet, looming global financial crisis, evidence that the system isn’t producing the result we all expect, non-traditional organizations moving in rapidly and successfully at the bottom end of the market and perhaps most importantly a weakening in the reliance on and significance of the parchment.
Please consider the wording for the sections of the site in the examples below as placeholders. We will be conducting user group testing to determine the best wording for the site. What we are looking to affirm is the general layout and look of the site.
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