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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with 'e's

Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0:

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). When teachers and schools engage in high-quality collaboration, it leads to better achievement gains in math and reading for students.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

While individual members may have differing levels of competency, the group must be able to work collaboratively to achieve group norms and defined level of competency. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These principles of Universal Design have transitioned into the educational sphere through various models, such as Universal Design for Learning (UDL; Rose & Meyer, 2000), Universal Design for Instruction (UDI; Scott et al., 2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., link] Dymond, S. Renzaglia, A.,

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10Q: Cathy N. Davidson

Learning with 'e's

For eight years (1998-2006) I was essentially the R and D person for the university, Duke's first full-time Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies (the first anywhere in the US in fact), charged with innovation across all eight schools of the university, and with the delicious mandate to "break things and make things."