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WHAT'S INSIDE THE Spring/Summer-08
ISSUE: Spring/Summer-08
HOW CHALK AND WIRE HELPS COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES BUILD MULTIPLE LEVELS OF
PERFORMANCE-BASED ASSESSMENTS
The first in our series on electronic portfolio vendors . . . Chalk and Wire is more than a provider of electronic portfolio software. It also helps institutions implement assessment systems with sophisticated analysis and reporting features and functions that have been utilized for accreditation management processes. See how Chalk and Wire started and grew. Several institutions explain how the collaborative relationship they have experienced with this modern company, with a usability, learner-based and assessment-focused mindset, has helped them move forward in building out a culture of evidence. MORE
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CRITICAL ASSESSMENT AND LEARNING
"The clients we look for are people who are genuinely interested in the performance of their students," says Chalk and Wire Founder and CEO Geoff Irvine. They also understand the importance of accreditation, can identify what they already do well, and are willing to accept that there are some things that they do not do so well and need to fix for the sake of their students. "My bottom line is if you commit to assess, you commit to act," Irvine adds. "If you are not going to be prepared to act, don’t bother doing it - which is why we take no more than only 20 clients a year." MORE
A RELATIVELY SMALL COMPANY BUILT ON RELATIONSHIPS
Since Chalk and Wire officially became a Canadian corporation in 2000, which was after its research and development phase with Canada’s Communications
Research Centre, it has grown to more than 300 clients today with a total of
about 180,000 users, and still growing. MORE
DIGICATION MAKING HEADWAY IN HIGHER ED EPORTFOLIO MARKETPLACE
Digication is a web-based eportfolio software company that was created by two
art educators, Jeffrey Yan and Kelly Driscoll, both graduates of and faculty
members at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), noted as one of the top art
schools in the country. Driscoll and Yan also have extensive backgrounds in web
application development, user interface design, and digital media, so it makes
sense that they have created an eportfolio product and service that has become
highly regarded for its ease of use; great-looking, customizable and intuitive
interface; and its strong capability to easily store and display complex digital
images and video files. Driscoll and Yan also have a strong community-building,
social-networking, Web 2.0 kind of mindset that is helping to steer their
product down interesting and highly creative educational pathways. MORE
UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION SYSTEMS GLOBALLY: Perspectives From and On the Directorate for Education at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
An in-depth special report about the Directorate for Education Department inside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), featuring perspectives from leadership at the Directorate and from higher education professionals in the U.S. from WICHE, NCHEMS, the World Bank, CONAHEC, Blackboard and the University of Massachusetts. MORE
THREE BROAD QUESTIONS FOR ANDREAS SCHLEICHER
Head of the Indicators and Analysis Division for OECD's Directorate of Education, Andreas Schleicher, talks briefly about trends, inefficiencies and changes within the education sector globally. MORE
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