The Single Strongest Predictor

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A rare Sunday post for me. Today in the semi-annual LDS General Conference, Elder Oaks quoted research from a recent study at Columbia’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse about the relationship between teens’ academic achievement and how frequently they eat dinner with their family. BusinessWeek summarized the findings as follows: Their research has … Read more

Attend the OpenEd 2007 Conference Remotely

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Last week’s Open Education 2007 was one of the best conferences ever, no questions asked! During the conference, we used an amazing piece of technology called 51Weeks to capture everything going on… Slides, audio, back-channel web-based chats per session, etc. In fact, audio from every single session was online 10 minutes after the session ended. … Read more

Classes Every Aggie Should Take

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Logan’s newspaper, The Herald Journal, has been doing top 10 lists this summer. On September 8 HJ writer Kim Burgess did a back-to-school top 10 list of “Classes Every Aggie Should Take,” and I was pleasantly surprised to see my “Blogs, Wikis, and New Media for Learning” on the list. She says: Everyone and his … Read more