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The Hartford is working to educate college students about opportunities in the insurance industry while helping to make the transition from college to an insurance career an easier one.
This initiative comes through its recent partnership with the Connecticut Department of Labor, the Arizona Department of Economic Security and local community colleges to launch an insurance apprenticeship program.
The program serves as the first U.S.-based registered insurance apprenticeship program, which was signed at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of Labor on Nov. 17, 2016. Through current partnerships and others in development, The Hartford plans to onboard 200 apprentices by 2020.
"The program allows The Hartford to engage potential talent in claims early in their college careers, helping to build awareness of insurance as a great career path," said John Kinney, The Hartford's chief claims officer.
The apprenticeship program offers an insurance-specific curriculum, paid on-the-job training and mentoring to equip students for customer-facing roles in The Hartford's claims operation. It is registered with the U.S. Department of Labor, which provides tuition assistance for participating students through its American Apprenticeship Grant Initiative.
The program was initially launched in partnership with two colleges – Capital Community College in Hartford, Conn., and Rio Salado College in metro Phoenix, Ariz.
"The Hartford took a tremendous lead on this effort by seeing the value in apprenticeships and doing what was necessary to get the program approved on a federal level," said Dr. Linda Guzzo, dean of the School of Workforce and Continuing Education at Capital Community College. "They had looked at what Zurich had done in the past and said there's no reason why a U.S. company can't do the same with an apprenticeship program."
Students involved in the program will complete 61 credit hours of college coursework and 2,400 hours of paid on-the-job-training at The Hartford claims center in Windsor, Conn., or in Phoenix. The curriculum includes courses in insurance-specific topics as well as critical thinking, business analytics and communications.
Graduates will earn registered apprenticeship credentials, and when they become full-time employees of The Hartford, they will be eligible for additional tuition reimbursement to complete their bachelor's degree.
This serves to not only help The Hartford recruit and retain skilled claims professionals outside of the traditional college track, but also to help students gain education, training and a full-time position within the company, Kinney said.
"We are always looking for ways to identify, recruit and develop a wide array of talent," he explained. "We know significant, diverse talent already exists in community colleges."
Rio Salado and Capital Community College were chosen as early partners because they understood the advantages of an apprenticeship program in their city and at their schools, he said.
"Capital Community College is close to our headquarters, and Rio Salado is a great partner that already has an insurance-studies curriculum," Kinney added.
Rio Salado College
Rick Kemp, dean of instruction and partnerships at Rio Salado College, said the school is on track for having up to 10 students to start the apprenticeship program in August.
"Our hope would be starting next year to have 10 to 20 students," Kemp said.
He said most of the students set to be involved in the apprenticeship program are reentry students looking to retool their lives and careers. The typical student is roughly 29 years old with some work experience.
"These are folks who are re-careering," Kemp stated.
The courses required for the apprenticeship program are: GBS157 Insurance Industry Profession; GBS263 Personal Insurance; GBS258 Property and Liability Insurance; GBS265 Claim Handling Principles and Practices; GBS266 Auto Claim Practices.
The school is working with The Hartford to bring on two adjunct faculty from the carrier as instructors to teach the five courses.
"This is being done so that specific Hartford examples and context can be provided to supplement the courses," Kemp said.
The school last year launched an associate of applied science in insurance studies, which isn't a required track for those wanting to qualify for the apprenticeship program.
The AA consists of a core of 18 credits. Beside general education and specific insurance-related courses, other courses include accounting, business communications, financial planning and marketing courses.
There are currently 25 students enrolled in the AA program.
"We're just getting underway," Kemp said.
He said time and resources are just now being spent on both the AA program and the apprenticeship program, and those efforts have begun with a local and focused outreach. However, he hopes to step up and eventually broaden those efforts.
"Right now, our outreach is very localized," Kemp added.
With this expansion of apprenticeship training into the professional world, Kemp said he hopes to help break the paradigm of higher education apprenticeship programs involving only trade-related career paths.
Capital Community College
This strategy is one being implemented at Capital Community College as well, which officially welcomed The Hartford's first class of insurance apprentices during an event taking place at the college at the end of May.
"Apprenticeships are being viewed differently than they have been viewed in the past," Guzzo said. "Traditionally, they've been more for trades. Now, they're being looked at as an option for jobs such as those in the insurance industry."
Students in the program at Capital Community College are required to be in a business administration, two-year degree program and be one year away from completion of their associate's degree, Guzzo said. They are required to have a 3.0 GPA, and as part of application process, they have to write an essay and have letters of recommendation from faculty. They also have to go through a college interview and be interviewed by The Hartford before selections are made.
"It's a pretty intense process to be accepted into the program because the commitment is also very rigorous, so we want to be sure we have the right match of students for the job," Guzzo stated. "It is part of the community college's mission to assist our businesses and residents of the state. Part of that is to create a pipeline of a highly skilled workforce to support economic growth, so that is the reason we have gotten into this. It's really just at the heart of what we do."
This first group of students will complete the program in May 2018, Guzzo said. They will receive the Hartford-specific customer service training, which is a five week program, and they will also be taking courses with the college on ethics, P&C insurance, liability, auto claims, claims management and personal insurance.
"This new program is an innovative way to develop Connecticut's insurance talent and provide promising careers for our residents," said Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy in prepared remarks. "It supports our communities and helps the state expand into non-traditional apprenticeships to help grow our major industry sectors."
Connecticut Department of Labor Commissioner Scott D. Jackson echoed Malloy's enthusiasm in an emailed statement to Insurance Journal, adding: "By creating new pathways to educational opportunities and well-paying jobs for our residents, we are also helping to build a skilled workforce for Connecticut companies."
Future Outlook
Although The Hartford is focusing its efforts solely in Connecticut and Arizona while the program is still newly launched, it expects that the program will expand in the future, Kinney said.
"The Hartford's claim organization has conceived and piloted this concept to fill entry-level customer-facing roles," he said. "Over time, it's possible other departments at The Hartford may consider creating apprentice positions as well. We have expectations that the program will flourish, allowing us to grow in other parts of the country."
Additionally, Capital Community College plans to offer the apprenticeship program at a much larger scale in the future and make it available to other companies beyond The Hartford, Guzzo said.
The college is in the process of designing a claims simulation training center, which it hopes to complete by the fall, as well as develop a credit insurance certificate program so students will be able to earn additional college credit.
"As part of the apprenticeship right now, we've been focused on new hires," Guzzo said. "In the future, we'll also be able to do the apprenticeship for incumbent workers. So if employers have individuals that they want to have become apprentices and be trained to move into other roles in the company, we'll be branching into that as well. We have a lot of things on the horizon following this initial launch."
Willie Higgins, apprenticeship program lead coordinator for the Arizona Department of Economic Security, said it is also working to expand the apprenticeship program in Arizona and is in ongoing talks with a major carrier.
"We will be in talks with creating an apprenticeship program for State Farm," Higgins said. "We're looking forward to expanding it."
He said the deal with State Farm is still in the works, and he had no timeline for a deal to be worked out.
The apprenticeship program is registered through the Department of Labor and the Arizona Department of Economic Security, which means apprentices will have nationally recognized certification upon completion of the program, he said.
"We recruit people for employers," Higgins said. "Some people are just not aware that these opportunities exist."
He was referring not only to apprenticeship opportunities in general, but opportunities available in the insurance industry, which he would like to introduce to not only continuing education college students but high school students just coming into college as well.
As apprenticeships can help these students gain a foot in the door with the insurance industry early on, Kemp added that he sees the potential for programs like this to become more common.
"I see this as being the future," Kemp said. "Apprenticeships have been a highly successful model, and I think there's great potential for expansion into this area. Bottom line for us in higher education is we want our students to get jobs and that's what our students do."
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Happy new year. In December 2017, I was pleased to see Values in Health and Social Care: an Introductory Workbook published, co-written with Ray Samuriwo, Stephen Pattison and Andrew Todd. It is a product of the Cardiff Values group, which … Continue reading
Out with the old
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Resilience of community mental health nurses in Palestine
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Mental health needs and services in Palestine
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Resilience and community mental health nursing in Palestine
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Watching all that news, you really shouldn't be.
We found 1 episode of Unfilter with the tag "biden rule".
327: Hypocrisy Politics
September 24th, 2020 | 48 mins 11 secs
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Don't let the Supreme Court doomsdayers scare you; we've been through this before.


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Loofahs are the fibrous interior of a fruit that resembles a marrow, dried and used as a sponge for washing the body and skin exfoliation.
Additionally, it is also beneficial for eliminating dead skin cells that will automatically give you smooth, youthful, and glowing skin. As an added bonus it stimulates your skin's blood circulation.


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Fad Fitness: Learning to Fly
If Flywheel's learning curve might more aptly be described as a "learning hill," then, three weeks into this experiment, that incline is leveling and my pedal strokes are becoming more nimble.
I ended last week's entry on a hope to climb past my statistical plateau (to mix my geological metaphors) and more classes might do it, I'd said.
But I didn't have to wait that long. Hours after going to press last week, I checked in at the Flatiron gym for 45 minutes with instructor John Wellmann and maybe seven other riders—4:30pm on a Thursday isn't the most popular time to workout for Flywheel's white collar clientele. (If there was any doubt about this, the instructions on every locker literally "dare" you to put away your Blackberry.)
This workout was different. Wellmann has that lean musculature you see on marathoners, and, indeed, his bio says he was once a distance runner. There was very little theater to his style compared to other instructors I've had. The pitch of his voice wasn't hitting those sharp peaks meant to cut through the music and he wasn't hup-hupping to the beat or raising his arms in calorie-burning ecstasy. It was just a high-intensity ride that kicked off with Madonna's "Vogue" and never let up.
Wellmann focused on keeping the numbers up, with less third position—standing, front of the handlebars—and a whole lot more of second—standing, back of handlebars. In second, you can sustain higher speeds than in third, with the added difficulty of holding your core in a vertical line.
I was blowing past all my benchmarks—Wait, my total power is at 100, and we're only 15 minutes in?!—and finished with 271 total power, which creamed my previous high of 232. More on the meaning of these numbers next week…
With my newfound confidence, I enrolled in instructor Grant Belton's Saturday "endurance" ride.
As it turned out, much of the difference between a regular session and an endurance one is the absence of weights in the latter. Sure, we were hitting higher targets with our torq, and had more and longer steep hills than I can accurately recount, but the real zinger was not dialing my legs down for a spell so I could torture a different part of my body.
In a regular session, the weights seem easy enough: One two-pound bar and one four-pounder. Since I wait tables for the better part of my living, I like to flatter myself that the holding-things-aloft part of my body's machinery is in good shape. Well, it ain't.
In my very first class I thought, suuure, 6-pound curls, no biggie. OK, actually—ow!—this really burns, crap!, ow ow ow. Oh, crap, I have to hold my arms straight out for 30 seconds? No, I—just—can't.
Next class I tried doing only four pounds… aaand the next I was down to only two.
The problem here isn't only weight. It's that you're sitting on a small triangle while your legs are pedaling 20 miles per hour, and your entire body is screaming, "Put those things down! You're about to fall over and clunk your melon on the next guy's bike!" In other words, your whole body is engaged in the task of holding six pounds (or four, or two) parallel to the ground.
And as torturous as that part of the workout is, man, I sure missed it when climbing my 15th hill in that Saturday endurance class.
And the results? 284!
But what's this? No victory lap for me.
At the very top of the men's TorqBoard, guys are hitting 400, even 415. This is a far cry from the advice I'd gotten from Steven Little early on, to simply try to keep up with the instructor. These guys were burning well over a thousand calories in 45 minutes and, clearly, had to have been cranking their torq well above target, and riding 30 or 40mph, to boot.
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Autocad File ConverterWritten by Sierra Rein
It is clear in the modern era of the 21st century that now, more than ever, professional architects and engineers need to have a good AutoCAD file converter. This is a simple tool that can only improve work, communication, and business professionally.
An AutoCAD file is initially created to provide the engineer with a two dimensional representation of a future three dimensional product, such as a building, a new engine, or a piece of technical equipment. Line drawings based on exact measurements are used to draw lines and form on the screen the first views of how the product will look like once it is made. Other details, such as building material, can also be inputted into the file to form a more complete concept of it.
What an AutoCAD File Converter Then Does
The next step for the engineer is to get the information on this file viewed by whomever is necessary to approve, make changes, or give help to improve the project. But what happens if this person is not near the computer the file is on? An AutoCAD file converter is there to transfer the information on this file into a form that is readable, printable, and able to be emailed, such as an AutoCAD PDF.
Most converter software is made to become integrated within the AutoCAD software itself. This prevents computer conflicts and crashes, and allows the user to make the conversion happen in a matter of seconds.


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Each life is worth one life. It's not like an Iraqi life is worth more than an American life just because there are fewer of them. Thinking of people as part of a collective is about 99% of why the world is SO fucked up. The people who write that crap deserve to be hit in the head with a crowbar and told "That's, proportionally, like me hitting one retarded person with a crowbar."
If I go to Luxembourg and kick some shithead in the balls that's not the same as kicking 621 Americans in the balls. For me to do that I have to go up to 621 INDIVIDUAL Americans and kick them in the balls. It's not DIFFICULT math.


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Beyond Free: Open Learning in a Networked World for APT 2014 (8th July, Greenwich) Stephen Downes
What is the problem for which MOOCs are the solution? Diana Laurillard: the answer to the question in terms of what problems MOOCs have solved… "The problem MOOCs succeed in solving is: to provide free university teaching for highly qualified professionals." https://newsletter.alt.ac.uk/2014/06/what-is-the-problem-for-which-moocs-are-the-solution/ Image: http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/community/londonconnection/articles/qa/london-connection-qa-professor-diana-laurillard
What is the problem MOOCs were designed to solve? Laurillard writes, "by 2015 there will still be 53m children out of school... UNESCO estimates that we need 1,600,000 teachers to achieve universal primary education." At $50K per teacher, that's an additional $80 billion in salaries http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002256/225660e.pdf Image: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/publicsector/article3410805.ece
We have to find innovative ways of teaching… … says Laurillard. But more importantly, I say, we have to find more innovative ways of learning Because the problem isn't design; the problem is cost and access. Design is only one way of looking at the problem. Image: https://www.uwstout.edu/lib/services/access.cfm
Who gets to graduate? "whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor — how much money his or her parents make.... "it will always be the case that the kids who have need are going to have been denied a lot of the academic preparation and opportunities for identity formation that the affluent kids have been given." Paul Tough, New York Times, May 27, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?_r=0
What is the problem for which colleges and universities are the answer? Hint: if we look at why they are starting MOOCs, cost and access aren't very high on the list…
Why they are running MOOCs? What are their issues? Extend reach and access Build and maintain brand Reduce costs, raise revenues Improve educational outcomes Research and innovation in teaching and learning http://cbcse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MOOCs_Expectations_and_Reality.pdf
Meanwhile, the denials that cost is even a problem "the benefits of college still outweigh the costs" "financial aid programs drive college prices higher" Student debt overstated http://www.ny.frb.org/research/current_issues/ci20-3.pdf http://www.aei.org/events/2014/06/25/policies-to-puncture-the-student-loan-bubble/ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/upshot/the-reality-of-student-debt-is-different-from-the-cliches.html
We're told outright that money is not the problem "This challenge is much more than an incremental program here or some fine-tuning there; it involves a culture change in how we all take more accountability for educational outcomes." (BMO Financial Group) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/education-lab/more-money-wont-fix-need-for-change-in-education/article19309812/
But for many, cost is the problem "In general, university participation rates are lower among aboriginals, students with disabilities, and the poor." http://www.ousa.ca/2014/06/10/experiential-learning-opportunities-created-equal/
And debt, an even bigger problem http://www.aft.org/pdfs/highered/BorrowingAgainstFuture0514.pdf
Not only students are hurt, so are their families "the data suggests parents are borrowing more, going back to work, or dipping into their retirement savings in order to financially support their children's education" http://www.casa-acae.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CASAJune5th-NewDataCostEducation.pdf Image: http://tcf.org/blog/detail/graph-student-debt-the-trillion-dollar-threat-to-the-american-middle-class
Meanwhile, the benefits of digital resources never materialized… 11 publishers are raising their prices all at the same time. "Publishers insist, however, that there was no conspiracy to raise prices and that the previous cost model for e-books wasn't sustainable." http://chronicle.com/article/College-Libraries-Push-Back-as/147085/ Image: http://www.dailytech.com/Amazon+Flexes+Its+Muscles+to+Punish+Unruly+Publisher+Hatchette/article34968.htm
That's one cost even universities agree is a problem "Journals published by non-profit organisations were two to 10 times better value than those published by commercial companies, such as Elsevier, Springer, Sage, and Taylor & Francis." http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/16/universities-get-poor-value-academic-journal-publishing-firms
Of course, the journals don't want to publish this sort of data … and when they do (only after being threatened with mass resignations) they publish the data with a disclaimer suggesting it is inaccurate http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/resignations-threat-over-taylor-and-francis-censorship/2013752.article The article: http://files.figshare.com/1521805/Publisher__be_damned_.pdf
So we see calls to recognize alternative forms of literature 'Grey Literature' "research and technical reports, briefings and reviews, evaluations, working papers, conference papers, theses, and multimedia content." http://greyguide.isti.cnr.it/include/pisadeclarationmay2014.pdf http://tebm-libs.wikispaces.com/file/view/Grey+Literature.ppt
20 years ago: the "subversive proposal" http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Tp/Milestones/sld001.htm http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-subversive-proposal-at-20.html
The growth of a movement "What drives (Subbiah) Arunachalam is a firm belief that open access holds out the promise of a faster and more effective system for creating and sharing new knowledge…" http://poynder.blogspot.ca/2014/06/open-access-in-india-q-with-subbiah.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subbiah_Arunachalam
No coincidence that WWW-based was created 20 years ago as well Hill: "the first accredited school to offer a course over the WWW was the Open University in a pilot Virtual Summer School project in the summer of 1994." http://mfeldstein.com/internet-based-online-education-turns-20-summer/ http://faculty.education.ufl.edu/Melzie/Distance/Virtual%20Summer%20School%20Project
… meanwhile, the benefits of web-based courses were never realized I once did a quick survey of how long it would take me to get completely caught up reading patent applications in just one area of ed tech. It would be, I discovered, several lifetimes. http://www.hackeducation.com/2014/06/22/ed-tech-patents/
Calling it a 'patent thicket' is more than just a slight understatement It's way worse than that http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-06/02/pi-trademark-usa Image: screen capture from http://trademarks.justia.com/857/85/pi-85785006.html
The phenomenon of enclosure threatens the common heritage we thought we all owned Study: "... of the 50 titles that had been digitized, only three were hosted by repositories that do not restrict any type of subsequent use" Image: http://www.publicdomaintreasurehunter.com/2009/01/10/use-public-domain-short-stories-for-blogs/ (who knows where the original was) http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4975/4089
… and it's going to get worse Content companies have been creating their own browsers is to be able to implement in-browser digital rights management (DRM) instead of relying on plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ Image: http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-10-apps-f274/amazon-instant-videos-fully-working-browser-849796/
Content providers do not want people to have free and open access Digital News Report 2014: "We are seeing that the next five years will see a major revenue shift for news agencies. This is especially relevant given the reluctance of people to pay for news." http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/
… and their priorities are not our priorities This includes (especially) universities… As the University of Alberta searches for a new university president at a minimum $400K salary, at least 56 academics and staff have applied, all in groups of four. http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/features/2014/06/06/university-of-alberta-president-salary-letter/
The resistance of academic staff to open content is manifest Report from the University of Greenwich: Active change blocking and passive forms of intransigence Sharing of resources and artifacts happened only on Moodle, which is a closed system No time to effectively learn about and embed open content http://terrya.edublogs.org/2014/04/23/greewich-connect-connects-with-us-on-a-number-of-levels/ Report: http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Paper_30.pdf
Even at the Open Textbook Conference, scepticism prevailed "Adoption by faculty and instructors remains a major challenge. Diane Salter from Kwantlen Polytechnic University stated that there needs to be an institutional strategy…to raise awareness and get buy-in from faculty." http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/04/23/what-i-learned-from-the-open-textbook-summit/
There's no end of reasons offered to use closed content… for many disciplines and courses, there is no open textbook available concerns about quality (e.g., comprehensiveness, clarity, currency, etc.) no illustrations, charts, or graphics to aid comprehension. No questions or critical thinking exercises embedded. No online learning management system available And, crucially for many faculty, no testbank choice of textbook is sometimes not an individual one http://jhangiani.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/a-faculty-perspective-on-open-textbooks/
Professors who defy the university's indifference to student costs pay the price What's key here is that speaking out is being defined as insubordination, and that "everybody is expected to put the good of the whole university ahead of their own interests." http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/prof-robert-buckingham-fired-after-criticizing-saskatchewan-university-plan-1.2642637
Universities, meanwhile, disguise the unsustainable model by employing poorly paid temporary staff "Our marginalization, meager pay and lack of job security… all contribute to a culture of paranoia and enmity." http://drshahsofficehours.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/my-last-day-as-a-professor/ Image: http://www.orderofeducation.com/con-job-new-documentary-adjunct-labor/
And they priced online learning using the same model they used to price in-class learning I don't see why university administrators could think that "unapologetically" pricing courses at $1400 per credit hour for online learning could possibly work. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/01/collaboration-or-lack-thereof-behind-semester-online-collapse
They see new technologies mostly as a means to make more money For example: McGill University in Montreal has launched a crowdfunding platform to encourage donations. (Yet again, the silo model prevails) http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/06/seeding-is-believing-mcgill-launches-crowdfunding-platform/
While the university fundraisers pursue parochial interests, open content advocates create resource networks… Eg. Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has undertaken an initiative to align open access repositories. https://www.coar-repositories.org/files/Aligning-Repository-Networks-Meeting-Report.pdf
Open access makes a massive economic difference Ross Dawson: The potential value from open data to the G20 nations is $2.6 trillion annually http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2014/06/impact-open-data-government-economic-growth.html
Creative Commons: the license is a patch, not a fix – we should be working to a world where the default is open http://teamopen.cc/thefuture/
And outside formal academia, a world of free and open resources has been unfolding… Things like Ergo, a free and open journal of philosophy http://www.ergophiljournal.org/ Image: http://www.aestheticsforbirds.com/2014_05_01_archive.html
Things like 'Mini-Lectures using learning Objects' by Susan Smith-Nash "I like this for is simplicity": Janet Clarey http://elearnqueen.blogspot.ca/2014/05/mini-lectures-using-learning-objects.html https://twitter.com/jclarey/status/464781795322781696
Things like "a new talk, sketched daily" by Kate Torgovnick May (and even TED, though I once commented that TED is the 'Upworthy of academia')
Things like the "Open Textbooks Toolkit" from BC Campus "Your starting point on how to change education with just one textbook." http://open.bccampus.ca/open-textbooks-toolkit/
We are seeing what Martin Weller has called 'the open virus'… "It is no coincidence that many of the MOOC pioneers had also been early adopters of open access, active bloggers, and advocates of open licenses. Creating open courses seemed the next logical step…" http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2014/05/the-open-virus.html
Do we dare imagine a world of open resources beyond 'courseware'?Beyond the traditional university model? Maybe. The OpenCourseWare Consortium has changed its name to The Open Education Consortium. http://www.openedconsortium.org/
And we are seeing a world-wide embrace of an alternative model of learning based in open content… A Norway commission recommends a "national investment of up to €16-47 million annually http://acreelman.blogspot.ca/2014/06/norwegian-mooc-commission.html The Report: http://ow.ly/ySYSW
But there's nothing that can't be corrupted… For example: a company that professionally produces five-minute 'educational videos' with the intent of making them go viral (and no, it's not TED; their videos are longer) http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/online-upstarts-goal-mooc-lectures-that-go-viral/53539 Image: http://mruniversity.com/courses/everyday-economics
The free online lessons can be far from benign This is from Disney, but the name 'Doc McStuffins' isn't coincidentally the name of a certain fast food place http://kidscreen.com/2014/04/24/why-disney-is-pushing-further-into-the-preschool-mobile-space/
Don't think that traditional universities are immune from the temptation. Events have proven that they are not. Roger Schank: "I am sure, that Stanford itself won't give the stuff they produce to it's own students. No one calls this racism (or classism), but it is education for poor people, just as Wal-Mart is focused on poor people. " http://educationoutrage.blogspot.ca/2014/06/stanford-decides-to-be-wal-mart-doesnt.html
On the other hand, Schank's solution is ridiculous… $54.5K per year to attend Stanford x World population ages 20-24 of 596.3M = a total cost of $32.5 trillion dollars / year. Or, more money than the total GDP of the G8 nations plus China and India http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/february/stanford-undergraduate-tuition-020712.html http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/broker https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2195.html
But it's hard to resist the idea that MOOCs are moneymaking scams For example, the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education argues online education "is a billion-dollar business motivated more by profits than quality education for students." http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/05/13/are-moocs-a-moneymaking-scam-providers-challenged-to-substantiate-grandiose-claims.aspx
And the research is telling us how bad MOOCs really are… If you are isolated, poor, and enamored of the prestigious university offering the MOOC you're taking, you are less likely to complete it. Coaching students to have a healthier mindset about learning may not help in a MOOC. Paired with the right incentives, MOOCs can help prepare at-risk students for college-level work. Discussion forums in MOOCs are healthy places for the few students who use them. We still do not know if doing well in MOOCs will help underprivileged learners become upwardly mobile. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/5-things-researchers-have-discovered-about-moocs/53585 Report: http://www.moocresearch.com/
But what sort of MOOC is this research criticizing? The sort of MOOC created by the same people who wanted to raise money selling courses online – people like Coursera's Richard Levin, for example… … who gives us the impression he's not sure what software like EdX actually does http://mfeldstein.com/partial-transcript-richard-levin-new-coursera-ceo-charlie-rose/
We need to understand that MOOCs are different, that they're not traditional courses Drop the lable 'dropout' - characterize users by the impact they have on the system: uploaders, commenters, subscribers, viewers, and lurkers. http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/study-of-moocs-suggests-dropping-the-label-dropout/53421?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
It's true that one thing that characterises the MOOC is the sheer scale of participation "the total of 1162 students taking the final exam in this one course is more students than I have taught at Wellesley College over the past ten years" http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/alexander-mooc-lands
But these numbers do not tell us about the students taking MOOCs "Did they look at … any information giving a clue on whether students desired to complete the course, get a good grade, get a certificate, or just sample some material?" http://mfeldstein.com/harvard-mit-learn-university-phoenix-analytics/
That said, other research shows that the bulk of MOOCs are created in the image of traditional courses… and have unsurprising results http://www.moocresearch.com/reports
The retrenchment has begun with the assertion that the MOOC will not replace traditional courses It will only supplement them But they will diversity them (slightly) http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/moocs-wont-replace-business-schools-theyll-diversify-them/
And, of course, traditional education will "absorb" MOOCs That institutions will simply absorb MOOCs doesn't surprise me - they have very different goals and ambitions from the rest of us. Bellweather Report: http://bellwethereducation.org/policymakers_guide_to_moocs Teachers' College, Columbia University, Report: http://cbcse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MOOCs_Expectations_and_Reality.pdf
The mission has shifted completely away from MOOCs and into support of the university's prosperity Richard Levin (Coursera): "The big picture is this magnifies the reach of universities by two or three orders of magnitude." http://mfeldstein.com/coursera-shifts-focus-impact-learners-reach-universities/
They want to build a marketplace (and worse, they think it's a new idea) "Brilliance struck. We call it Canvas Catalog." http://voice.instructure.com/blog/bid/346982/Brilliance-struck-We-call-it-Canvas-Catalog
This of course is the next new land rush http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/project/emma-0
*sigh* … Unizin "…coalition of interdependent universities to provide an LMS, content repository, and learning analytics system." http://mfeldstein.com/unizin-threat-edx/
Why this is important: MOOCs are not second rate and they are not disappearing of being absorbed or anything else. Yes, they are 'disruptive' – "their potential to disrupt — on price, technology, even pedagogy — in a long-stagnant industry is only just beginning to be seen." http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/05/09/moocs-disruption-only-beginning/S2VlsXpK6rzRx4DMrS4ADM/story.html
The 'disruptive' in MOOCs is not size or pedagogy or even internet (though all are changed) – it's that they are free and open (The one thing universities have struggled with) http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/05/29/316989869/the-future-of-online-ed-isnt-heading-where-you-expect The idea of a national networks for free learning is something that can endure, and eventually, become entrenched.
We're beginning to see the importance of this in Matt Crosslin's efforts to design a 'hybrid' MOOC The idea of 'free and open' is linked to the importance of dialogue and interaction http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2014/05/04/designing-a-dual-layer-cmoocxmooc/ http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2014/06/07/communal-constructivism-and-dual-layer-moocs/
But why design a hybrid? "Normative communicative actions are those that communicate knowledge based on past experiences… "Strategic communicative actions … where specific reified knowledge is transferred to the learner. "Constative communicative actions are debates, arguments, and discourses … "Dramaturgical communicative actions are those that allow for expression…" http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2014/05/07/why-design-a-xmooc-cmooc-hybrid-ltca-theory/
Let's build mesh networks of people instead… "What could we actually do on limited budgets that might help people and that we can share, for other people to take and run with to solve their own local issues?" http://cogdogblog.com/2014/05/08/mesh-networks-of-people/
Open content + conversations = learning networks The Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network (AESN) in British Columbia, Canada, "offers a powerful example of how teacher learning networks can enable deep and transformational change" http://ineducation.ca/ineducation/article/view/136 Image: http://www.jenniferannaispighin.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=58051954
The old idea that professors tell students what to believe is wrong… and we are learning more about how students learn from each other For example: "interaction with diverse views … causes students to moderate their political views." http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/10/study-finds-students-themselves-not-professors-lead-some-become-more-liberal-college
Principles for dynamic networks … Deleuze and Guattari (D & G) enumerate 6 approximate characteristics of the rhizome, including: Connections Heterogeneity - Multiplicity Asignifying rupture 5 & 6. Cartography http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/principles-for-rhizomatic-thinking/
Social networks as seen by Harrison C. White… "Social life is made up of endless chains and multiple overlapping nets, with no clear boundaries. It is long stings .... It is only a messy mesh or, rather, mush. Social reality is a terrain, a typology of networks and chains." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.195.3584&rep=rep1&type=pdf
The structure of the MOOC is the structure of the network; the principles of the MOOC are the principles of the network Explanations stem from analyses of patterns of relations… the autonomy of entities in the network, and … strong and weak ties http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.130.1129&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Optogenetics, connections and the diversity of the neural network "There's no such thing as a generic neuron," says Anderson, who estimates that there may be up to 10,000 distinct classes of neurons in the brain. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/528226/neurosciences-new-toolbox/
Far from curriculum, we should be emphasizing diversity, experience and autonomy in learning http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/bringing-mindfulness-to-the-school-curriculum/
The idea of the MOOC is not just the idea of open resources, or even open teaching … it's about living openly It's not about teaching it's about sharing the process of thought and inference and discovery with those around you http://mdvfunes.com/2014/05/25/the-psychology-of-open-on-wrestling-your-inner-mooc/
Sharing with things like… BoardThing "Create cards with text or images. Move and arrange cards with collaborators on a shared board." http://boardthing.com/
Things like… MOOCopoly, the game Alan Levine: "I came across a Monopoly template in Photoshop," he writes, "found within a 2008 blog post by Brad Frost. Yep, a self hosted blog strikes again." http://cogdogblog.com/2014/05/03/moocopoly-the-game/
The future of open is decentralized - that's why it is being opposed "As a consequence, though, of this clampdown we are seeing the rise of genuinely distributed networks that circumvent attempts at control - things like BitTorrent, Bitcoin, DarkMarket, and now, MaidSafe, which allows users to share bandwidth and processing power" http://www.dailydot.com/technology/decentralized-internet-future/
That's why internet access is being sold to the highest bidder But, of course, it's not just the internet – it's our decentralized and common system of laws and values Thus, the US FCC votes to end net neutrality https://medium.com/p/7805f8049503 Image: http://noarmycanstopanidea.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-end-of-net-neutrality/
The open content movement is beginning to address open policy Though I wish it adopted a more enlightened strategy http://openpolicynetwork.org/
We need to be open, not just in the big things, but also in the little things Embargo periods, for example https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/aligning-repository-networks-across-regions/statement-about-embargo-periods/
Open content, open access, open learning… these are not only a part of democracy, they define democracy, and our system of free and open government depends upon them http://www.jarche.com/2014/05/a-world-of-pervasive-networks/
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The potential of inertial measurement units (IMUs) for ergonomics applications appears promising. However, previous IMUs validation studies have been incomplete regarding aspects of joints analysed, complexity of movements and duration of trials. The objective was to determine the technological error and biomechanical model differences between IMUs and an optoelectronic system and evaluate the effect of task complexity and duration. Whole-body kinematics from 12 participants was recorded simultaneously with a full-body Xsens system where an Optotrak cluster was fixed on every IMU. Short functional movements and long manual material handling tasks were performed and joint angles were compared between the two systems. The differences attributed to the biomechanical model showed significantly greater (P ≤ .001) RMSE than the technological error. RMSE was systematically higher (P ≤ .001) for the long complex task with a mean on all joints of 2.8° compared to 1.2° during short functional movements. Definition of local coordinate systems based on anatomical landmarks or single posture was the most influent difference between the two systems. Additionally, IMUs accuracy was affected by the complexity and duration of the tasks. Nevertheless, technological error remained under 5° RMSE during handling tasks, which shows potential to track workers during their daily labour.
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Robert-Lachaine, X., Mecheri, H., Larue, C. et al. Validation of inertial measurement units with an optoelectronic system for whole-body motion analysis. Med Biol Eng Comput 55, 609–619 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11517-016-1537-2
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Sweet-Tooth is a Shivertooth that first appeared in the game Dragons: Rise of Berk.
Official Description
|Sweetcicle was baffled by this bizarrely familiar Shivertooth egg, and tried to help hatch it. The two have been very close since, and are regarded as "adopted cousins".
|— Dragons: Rise of Berk
Physical Appearance
Sweet-Tooth is bright yellow with black tiger-like stripe on its back, legs and tail. Its claws, spikes and horns are bright pink, as well as the tip of its tail. Sweet-Tooth has light blue shades on its wings, while the edges are black. Its eyes glow bright red and its mouth glows dark purple.
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Posted on Sat, May 25, 2019
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