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- Physical Effects of Drug Abuse
Physical Effects of Drug Abuse
The physical effects of drug abuse are extremely harmful to the user's health. The health problems associated with the drug abuse and addiction are many and varied, as well a potentially lethal. Drugs which are ingested by smoking tend to result in increased lung problems, mouth and throat cancers, etc. The physical effects of drug abuse on the central nervous system tend to list similar strings of symptoms involving psychotic behaviors. Stimulants give increased risks of heart attacks and so forth. Another common thread is pregnancy. The physical effects of drugs can have very strong adverse reactions in fetuses and cause associated problems. These problems can kill the baby and mother, or lead to lifetime health problems. Additionally, there are strong effects from mixing drugs.
Physical Effects of Drug Abuse
When someone abuses drugs they experience physical effects of the substance they have taken. The stimulation of using cocaine, for instance, is followed by a "crash" : a period of anxiety, fatigue, depression, and a strong desire to use more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol interfere with motor control and are factors in many automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks, unwanted recurrences of the drug's effects weeks or months after use. Abrupt abstinence from certain drugs results in withdrawal symptoms. For example, heroin withdrawal symptoms cause vomiting, muscle cramps, convulsions, and delirium.
With the continued use of a physically addictive drug, tolerance develops. This means constantly increasing amounts of the drug are needed to duplicate the initial effect. Sharing hypodermic needles used to inject some drugs dramatically increases the risk of contracting AIDS and some types of hepatitis. In addition, increased sexual activity among drug users, both in prostitution and from the dis-inhibiting effect of some drugs, also puts them at a higher risk of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
- The Physical Effects of Amphetamine Abuse:?
- Swallowed or snorted, these drugs hit users with a fast high, making them feel powerful, alert, and energized.
- Uppers pump up heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure, and they can also cause sweating, shaking, headaches, sleeplessness, and blurred vision.
- Prolonged use may cause hallucinations and intense paranoia.
- The Physical Effects Cocaine and Crack Abuse:
- Cocaine is a stimulant that rocks the central nervous system, giving users a quick, intense feeling of power and energy.? Snorting highs last between 15 and 30 minutes; smoking highs last between 5 and 10 minutes.
- Cocaine also elevates heart rate, breathing rate, blood pressure, and body temperature.
- Snorting can put a hole inside the lining of your nose
- First-time users-even teens-of both cocaine and crack can stop breathing or have fatal heart attacks.? Using either of these drugs even one time can kill you.
- ?These drugs are highly addictive, and as a result, the drug, not the user, calls the shots.? Even after one use, cocaine and crack can create both physical and psychological cravings that make it very, very difficult for users to stop.
- The Physical Effects of Cold and Cough Medicine (DXM) Abuse:
- Several over-the-counter cough and cold medicines contain the ingredient dextromatorphan (also called DXM).? If taken in large quantities, these over-the-counter medicines can cause hallucinations, loss of motor control, and "out-of-body" (or disassociative) sensations.??????
- Small doses help suppress coughing, but larger doses can cause fever, confusion, impaired judgment, blurred vision, dizziness, paranoia, excessive sweating, slurred speech, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, headache, lethargy, numbness of fingers and toes, redness of face, dry and itchy skin, loss of consciousness, seizures, brain damage, and even death.? Sometimes users mistakenly take cough syrups that contain other medications in addition to detromethorphan.? High doses of these other meds can cause serious injury of death.
- The Physical Effects of Marijuana Abuse:?
- Marijuana also elevates heart rate and blood pressure.? Some people get red eyes and feel very sleepy or hungry.?
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Then and Now: Arts Practice and the Civic Rights Movement
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As the nation commemorates the 1963 March on Washington, Americans will be reminded of the power the arts bring to movements for human rights. The music and singing that day played a critical role in inspiring, mobilizing, and giving voice to the civil rights movement. ''The freedom songs are playing a strong and vital role in our struggle,'' said Martin Luther King, Jr. ''they give the people new courage and a sense of unity. I think they keep alive a faith, a radiant hope, in the future, particularly in our most trying hours''. [1]
Theater also played a critical role. The Free Southern Theater (FST), was formed in 1963, same year as the March on Washington, to be a cultural arm of the Civil Rights Movement—"a theater for those who have no theater." The FST "used art to support the Civil Rights Movement through a professional touring company, a community engagement program and training opportunities for local people interested in writing, performing and producing theater." The FST was a major influence in the Black Theatre Movement, using theater "as an instrument to stimulate the development of critical and reflective thought among Black people in the South." FST Artistic Director, John O'Neal, was a co-founder and a guiding force throughout the organization's existence. Americans for the Arts has been privileged to learn from and support John O'Neal and Junebug Productions as part of our Animating Democracy Lab for the Color Line Project.
Junebug Productions is hosting a historic four-day event planned for October 17-20, 2013 in New Orleans. Talkin' Revolution is a gathering of artists, activists, and educators coming together to celebrate and honor the 50-year legacy of Free Southern Theater as carried forward by Junebug Productions and others. The program includes performances, presentations and panel discussions to reflect on the historic and present-day impact of Free Southern Theater. (Registration is now open, and for more information please email email@example.com.)
John O'Neal's contributions continue. I recently shared the Story Circle process, a technique for democratic group participation that I first learned from John O'Neal, at a workshop in Fort Lauderdale sponsored by the Broward County Cultural Division. We shared honest and revealing stories of times in our lives where a perception had been a misperception. Things got real -- real quick! Within an hour the degree of connection among participants had grown exponentially. Just after the workshop, Marie Berlin Segre shared the process with her staff at the Young At Art Museum. "It really helped bridge a divide between new and current staff. We are excited to see what the short and long terms results will result from 'sharing a story and getting a story' in Northwest Gardens community this Saturday," said Marie. And so the Story Circle process marches on.
Thanks to John and others, the Story Circle process has become a popular method for opening communications channels within communities and cultural organizations over the last fifty years -- in ways that produce meaning, connection, and value. The democratic process, passed on from an arts practice vital to the civil rights movement, continues to drive conversations of value. It is a lasting legacy that is still being passed on today.
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Banana Nut Bread Recipe
Gluten Free Recipe
This banana nut bread recipe uses rice flour in place of standard flour. Makes a very pleasant loaf of bread. Use a nut of your choice or omit nuts if desired.
Recipe Ingredients
1 cup mashed ripe bananas
1/4 cup chopped nuts
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
1/4 teaspoon gluten-free vanilla powder*
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs or egg substitute equivalent)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1-1/4 cups rice flour
1/4 cup olive oil
Recipe Directions
Combine the bananas, sugar, and vanilla powder in a medium mixer bowl, and beat at medium speed for 1 minute. Add the eggs and mix well.
Combine the rice flour, nuts, gluten-free baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixer bowl.
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LeBron James had just scored 37 points in the deciding game of an NBA Finals series – he sat at the podium, reflecting on reaching the pinnacle of his sport for a second consecutive season, looking like a man satisfied.
It feels great. This team is amazing. And the vision that I had when I decided to come here is all coming true. Through adversity, through everything we've been through, we've been able to persevere and to win back‑to‑back championships. It's an unbelievable feeling. I'm happy to be part of such a first‑class organization.
What was tougher for King James? The first title or the second?
Last year when I was sitting up here, with my first championship, I said it was the toughest thing I had ever done. This year I'll tell last year he's absolutely wrong. This was the toughest championship right here, between the two. I mean, everything that we've been throughout this postseason, especially in these Finals, to be down – we were down every odd game. We were down 1‑0. We tied it. We were able to take a lead, but then we were down. We were down – we were scratching for our lives in Game 6, down five with 28 seconds to go. To be able to win that game and force a Game 7 is a true testament of our perseverance. And us being able to handle adversity throughout everything. It meant a lot for us to be able to do that and force a Game 7 and being able to close out at home.
A stat emerged on Wednesday that said the Heat were more than 53 points better with James on the floor without Dwyane Wade – but in Game 7, Wade and James were every bit the one-two punch, combining for 60 points. Wade said:
All the giddiness is the champagne talking. This is sweet. This is the sweetest one by far because of everything we've been through, everything I've been through individually and to get here to this moment, to have that kind of performance, that kind of game, help lead my team, it's special, man. So special.
Wade was asked if James' second title meant the monkey was finally off his back:
He'll get a lot less this summer. When the season start up again next year, it's on again. It's the ebb and flow, the highs and low of life. He's been in a championship what four times, and he's won two of them. That's a great percentage when you can make it to the Finals. So the story is still yet to be seen what he's going to end up with, but right now he's going to enjoy number two. Winning back to back, there's not a lot of people who has done that. He's a special player. We enjoy having him here. What he brings every night is unbelievable."
And finally, James discussed his summer plans. He had a special message for the media:
I need to rest my body. I do. As much as I love working out and as much as I love getting better, at this point I think the smartest thing to do is to rest my body. Give my body a break. I think that's the smartest thing. I got a wedding coming up with my beautiful fiancée. And it will be an unbelievable wedding now that we've won, instead of losing. I might have called it off if we lost [that got a laugh]. So now it's going to be one of the best weddings ever. I'm going to sign off with that. And I will see you guys when I see you guys. And please continue to motivate me. I need you guys. Thank you."
San Antonio's head coach, Gregg Popovich, had never lost an NBA Finals, but that didn't stop him from giving the Heat the respect they deserved on their night:
Players step up in the playoffs. Tonight a great example of that was Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. They played Hall‑of‑Fame basketball tonight. That's some of the best basketball they both played at the same time throughout the entire playoffs from what I saw. When you have somebody like Shane Battier come off the bench and knock it down the way he did, that's tough to match. If you're going to match that, you have to be pretty perfect. I didn't think we played our best game in that regard.
For 37-year-old Tim Duncan, a fifth NBA title remained elusive:
The obvious word is 'disappointing'. Tough end to the game. Made some bad decisions, missed some shots. I don't know what to say. Just give credit to the Miami Heat. LeBron was unbelievable. Dwyane was great. I just think they found a way to get it done. We stayed in the game. We gave ourselves opportunities to win the game, we just couldn't turn that corner. They made more plays down the stretch, bottom line."
Spurs guard Tony Parker was a combined 9-35 in Games 6 and 7:
I have no excuse. I'm not going to put it on my hammy and stuff like that. I just didn't play well. My shot was not falling. Couldn't get in a rhythm tonight.
Manu Ginobili was emotional after Game 6. He was asked if the letdown affected his play in the series decider:
During the game, nothing. Before the game, yes, of course. We all worked hard to forget about it, but it was not easy. But I don't think – at least in my case, it didn't bother me or affected my game today. But it was of course very tough to sleep yesterday, and we couldn't stop thinking about those two rebounds and those two threes. So many little things that could have gone our way in the last play or the last two plays to win it, that, you know, there's such a fine line, such a fine line between being celebrating and having a great summer, with now feeling like crap and just so disappointed.


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Soul Time! is a near-perfect expression of retro-soul style that grips from its opening bars.
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There's a legendary story about Anne Sexton's learning how to write a sonnet by watching I.A. Richard's educational-television series in the late fifties. I've thought about that fairly often while reading the daily stories on MOOCs. In the Sexton/Richards instance, there was a fortuitous electronic meeting of an excellent teacher who saw possibilities in the then "new" technology of television and a motivated student who was ready to write as if -- and according to her this was indeed the case -- her life depended on it.
That hyperbolic tone of the last sentence above -- a tone that readers of Sexton's later poems and interviews are already familiar with -- is also the tone of a good many declarations about MOOCs.
Thomas Friedman's latest column "The Professors' Big Stage" is a case in point. His piece on "the MOOCs revolution" is riddled with contradictions, shallow thinking -- and an error in basic arithmetic.
Friedman begins by excitedly informing us that he's just returned from a "great conference" sponsored by M.I.T. and Harvard on "Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education." He doesn't explain why he had to attend in person, or question why the conference wasn't online, but he adds his own title, "How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?" That premise, it soon becomes clear, is moot.
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As Friedman goes on to extol the virtues of using MOOCs as supplements for traditional courses and programs, MOOCs then become an example of preliminary programmed learning -- the sort of thing that community colleges have been doing in terms of remedial aid for quite a while. Publishers like Bedford/St. Martin's have offered online drills for years. And if the MOOC is tied to an accredited college's course, then Junior and his dad are still paying for Junior's education.
According to Friedman, students enrolled in a hybrid course at San Jose State, which combines M.I.T.'s introductory online Circuits and Electronics course with traditional in-seat class time, have done quite well: "Preliminary numbers indicate that those passing the class went from nearly 60 percent to about 90 percent." There's even better news for the students involved in that course than Friedman's assessment: he sees the improvement as one-third; in fact, a jump from 60 percent to 90 percent means the number of students passing the class increased by one-half, or 50 percent.
We should note that this is an argument for remedial preparation and/or immersion in a subject -- not necessarily an argument for online versus in-seat instruction.
And that, of course, is just one class. Friedman sees MOOCs as going far "beyond the current system of information and delivery -- the professorial 'sage on the stage' and students taking notes, followed by a superficial assessment. This description not only fails to describe adequately the current system but also ironically illuminates some of the biggest problems with MOOCs. Given the scale of MOOC courses, the only kinds of student assessment that can be accomplished are superficial. And we will have to hope that some enrolled students, unlike Friedman, still believe in note taking. The MOOC lecture system, however, puts that sage right back on the stage -- as Friedman's very title for his op-ed indicates.
Moreover, his discussion of Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor whose Justice course will have its American debut on March 12 as the first humanities offering on the M.I.T./Harvard edX online learning platform, focuses not on aspects of the course but on Sandel's old-fashioned appearances on the lecture circuit.
Sandel, whose course has been translated into Korean and shown on national South Korean television, recently traveled to Seoul (again, why?), where he lectured "in an outdoor amphitheater to 14,000 people, with audience participation." There was no indication as to how long the Q&A session ran.
Academicians often fall prey to magical thinking; at my former college, each time we hired a new provost (10 in my 16 years), we were certain that this was the one who would be our savior.
Each time we created a new central curriculum (three in my 16 years; the final stage just before I left was to exempt adult students from completion of the college's core requirements), we were certain that this was the answer. Smaller, struggling colleges may see offering licensed supersized online courses as cost-saving -- an escape from the situation they currently find themselves in, in which every small school worries about going online or bust.
Many of these colleges turned to creating their own individual online courses -- already being referred to as "traditional online courses" -- as a solution, only to find that the expenses have outweighed the successes: they are costly in terms of faculty training, serve very small audiences (often sitting only a building or two away), and put severe strain on IT departments.
Online consortiums in which struggling schools have banded together have also proved to be problematic; I am thinking in particular of one class that I was asked to review for my former college, which was a member of such a consortium: an accelerated multi-genre writing class, which asked students to write one poem, one short story, and one essay over a period of five weeks. The "final project" consisted of one additional work, in the students' choice of genre. It was thus possible to fufill 50 percent of the course requirements with two haiku.
MOOCs, of course, have their ur-versions, which include not only Henry Ford's production line and the rise of fast food, but massive online delivery experiments in the mid-1990s, online remedial drills, large introductory-course in-seat lectures, Sunrise Semester, and the Great Lecture Series, but also the 19th-century lecture. And possibly there was someone who asked Harvard for credit for attending Thoreau's lecture on "Society" -- or for attending a lecture by P. T. Barnum.
Friedman does note, near the end of his exhortatory column, that "We still need more research on what works."
Indeed. Along with the return of the sage on the stage, this newest educational/industrialized development has brought along with it -- no surprise to anyone who has taught a traditional online class, a class with online components, or a traditional in-seat class -- some old concerns: problems with technology; problems with underprepared and unmotivated students; problems with class participation in discussions (one sage walked off the stage); and concerns about retention and plagiarism.
Assessment will continue to be one of the biggest concerns: both assessment of the overall course and assessment of any student work that goes beyond the level of a drill. Financial issues will come in to play, as will work force issues. Hierarchical divides among students, faculty members, and institutions will not disappear.
Finally, there is a dynamic in a traditional classroom that MOOCs simply can't provide. In small, in-seat courses and workshops, students discover that they are part of a community, in which each person has a responsibility to contribute and the reward of personal interaction. Such courses allow for flexibility, Socratic questioning, and serendipity. Face-to-face meetings and small-group dynamics are important parts of education and socialization. And they provide an essential break for students from their hours of online gaming, posting and browsing.
One other analogy that comes up in discussions of MOOCs is "correspondence course." It's considered a dirty term, and yet, it may be an accurate description as thousands of students and piecework adjuncts labor at their solitary tasks.
And there may be something to be learned from a fictional account of a correspondence school: J. D. Salinger's "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period." The alienated protagonist concludes that "We are all nuns" -- working silently, separately, seeking salvation.
Carolyn Foster Segal is a professor emeritus of English at Cedar Crest College. She currently teaches at Muhlenberg College.
"The fruit ripens slowly," the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, "but it drops suddenly."
In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out of nowhere, in quick succession – first Udacity in February of last year, followed by Coursera in April, then edX in May. Remarkable as it may seem, MOOCs as we know them today have been with us only for as long as it has taken the Earth to make one orbit around the sun.
"I like to call the last year 'the decade of online learning,' " joked Anant Agarwal, president of edX, during my recent visit to the offices of his bustling startup in the Kendall Square area of Cambridge, Mass.
As accelerated as the progression of MOOCs has been from curious acronym to household name, and as much as it may seem that MOOCs themselves have fallen from the sky, in truth MOOCs have been ripening for some time.
Consider the free "courses" delivered through iTunes U for the last several years, or TED Talks, and Khan Academy, not to mention some of the early progenitors of MOOCs themselves, including Dave Cormier, credited with coining the phrase in 2008, as well as George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Alec Couros, David Wiley, and others.
Recall Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative, the "open educational resources" movement, and MIT's OpenCourseware, launched all the way back in 2002. And let's not forget Fathom.com, an initiative out of Columbia University launched at the turn of the millennium, or even the early days of America Online and Compuserve, both of which offered educational content through their services as early as the 1990s.
MOOCs, then, are not as new as they seem – though the world today appears to be more ready for them than it was in decades past. Indeed, it isn't hard to see how forces as diverse as Clayton Christensen's theory of "disruptive innovation" from the late 1990s, the expansion of online enrollments over the last decade, the reformist intentions of the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education from 2005-2006, the great recession of 2007-2009, or the completion agenda supported by the Lumina and Gates Foundations over the last few years have all contributed to a public thirst for what look like very high-quality educational offerings at very low – or even zero – cost.
"I also call the last year," Agarwal added, " 'the decade of innovation.' "
And like many innovations before them, MOOCs have been received with the usual contradictory apocalyptic fervor – where some believers foresee the arrival an educational golden age and others see the eventual destruction of our institutions, our faculty, and the intangible value of face-to-face learning.
Writing in The American Interest this month, for example, Nathan Harden claimed that "ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students." He went on to argue that as a result of the MOOC movement, "the changes ahead will ultimately bring about the most beneficial, most efficient and most equitable access to education that the world has ever seen."
At the other end of the apocalyptic continuum, Gregory Ferenstein, writing for TechCrunch last month, foresaw a future in which MOOCs wreaked a terrible devastation on the land, as "part-time faculty get laid off, more community colleges are shuttered, extracurricular college services are closed, and humanities and arts departments are dissolved for lack of enrollment."
The real significance of MOOCs lies, however, not in their being a harbinger of our educational salvation or demolition. Nor does their real significance lie principally in their potential to increase access or reduce costs – at least not for Agarwal and edX.
"We are about two things," Agarwal told me. "We are about dramatically increasing quality and impacting campus learning. We are being very deliberate. This is not a numbers game – this is not a game at all. This is a quality quest."
Funded with $60 million in seed capital from MIT and Harvard, edX can make a claim to being the first MOOC platform to market, inasmuch as its predecessor, MITx, was launched in December 2011. Until this week, the edX consortium featured five independent member institutions (MIT, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College) and one state university system comprising 15 colleges and universities (the University of Texas System). Thursday, it added six more, including several outside the United States.
In less than a year, edX's 25 courses have enrolled close to 700,000 people. "That's more than the combined alumni of MIT and Harvard over their combined 500-year history," Agarwal observed with a mixture of pride, enthusiasm and amazement. What really pleases him, though, is something else.
Rolling his chair across the office, Agarwal waves me over to his monitor and shows me the virtual laboratories edX has been developing for its courses. We start with his own course on Circuits and Electronics (6.002x in the edX course catalog).
"Many MOOCs are just about analyzing problems," he said. "We give you a blank sheet of paper and say, 'Go build, design, create, construct something.' " With drag-and-drop alacrity, Agarwal moves the components of a circuit into place on a piece of digital graph paper and clicks a button to test its performance. "Computers do the grading," he said, "in real time."
"The media focus on numbers, they focus on cost," Agarwal sighed. "But they should focus on something else – quality. And they should focus on efficiency. What is efficiency? It's a ratio of quality and cost."
Agarwal knows that MOOCs have their doubters, and he believes that they can only be persuaded with proof. He cites the case of San Jose State University, which licensed his own course on circuits and ran it as an adjunct to the school's own classroom-based instruction. The results, Agarwal claims, were impressive. "The fail rate dropped from 40 percent to 9 percent," he told me. "That's a quality improvement." And the costs to San Jose State were minimal. That's efficiency. Agarwal says San Jose will be sharing more details about their experience with edX in the near future.
With the avidity of the prototypical startup entrepreneur, Agarwal talked excitedly about the potential for MOOCs to improve pedagogy. "We have our xConsortium," he said. "All of the schools in our consortium have access to all the data in the platform in an anonymized format. This is what I call 'the particle accelerator of learning' – big data in learning in real-time." In a sense, then, edX's quality quest, as Agarwal calls it, is seeking out the educational equivalent of the Higgs Boson, as well the other fundamental elements of learning, in order to better understand what kind of learning objects, what kind of real-time remediation, and what kind of learning materials – whether analysis or laboratory or other – produce the best results from one learning context to the next.
I ask Agarwal what distinguishes edX from its fellow MOOC platforms. "We have a fundamentally different mission," he replied. "We're nonprofit. We're open source. Our technology is for everyone. And we have a commitment to campus learning."
Earlier this month, the American Council on Education completed an evaluation of five courses on the Coursera platform, developed respectively by Duke University, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Pennsylvania. Intriguingly, all five courses were approved for credit through the ACE credit transfer program. But just in case the future of MOOCs was beginning to make sense to you, consider this – all three of these institutions have made it clear that they, at least, will not be awarding credits for the courses, irrespective of the fact that they developed the courses themselves.
MOOCs are puzzling.
Will they last? It's not, I suspect, a question that would bother Agarwal very much one way or the other. "For us," he said, "it's not about MOOCs. We are trying to reimagine our own campus. The lecture wasn't working. Quality has been static for decades, but costs are going up. There's a trillion dollars in student debt. We are trying reimagine campus education from the ground up – with new ways of learning that are more enriching, more engaging, more efficient, and that produce better outcomes."
How do you like them apples?
Peter Stokes is executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, and author of the Peripheral Vision column.
With great interest, I read the recent news announcing that the American Council on Education (ACE) had evaluated five Coursera MOOCs and recommended them for credit. But I had hoped for something different.
Having traditional prestigious institutions making their online content open to the world – of course without their prestigious credit attached – was an exciting development. A race to post courses ensued. On the surface, it's an altruistic move to make learning available to anyone, anywhere for free.
Dig deeper and we are left to ask, how many MOOC courses will really be worth college credit, where will the credits be accepted, and for how long will college credits even be the primary measurement of learning?
Now that ACE has evaluated a few courses, MOOC providers will see how their process goes as students start actually finding proctors and taking tests -- or finding other methods of assessment -- to prove they learned the material. But a few courses will not be enough to really help students earn degrees, and with MOOC courses and providers continuing to proliferate, this does not seem like a viable way to keep up with demand.
Regardless, it is more than likely that the universities that agreed to the ACE CREDIT review are never going to accept an ACE CREDIT transcript themselves. The students with ACE CREDIT transcripts will need to present those transcripts to "lesser known" schools that are not among the elite players – colleges with much lower tuition and a willingness to serve post-traditional students.
More troubling is the fact that the ACE process for credit review is still course-based. Will this really be flexible enough in the future? Will it measure competencies and individual learning outcomes? Even if it seems scalable, will it mean all MOOC evaluations have to run through ACE and only ACE? Will students have to wait until ACE has evaluated a MOOC course before they can get credit?
Moreover, this raises the question: Are course evaluations and testing really the best or only way to deal with this new era of learning? What about experiential learning? If someone has college-level learning from their life experience is it invalid unless they take a course?
As Inside Higher Ed points out in its article, this was a fast move in an industry that moves at a glacial pace. But when ice really begins to melt, it can quickly turn into a waterfall. Students have more options for learning, and can get more information, from a variety of sources. So the question for education becomes, how can we best accommodate that?
I would assert that a portfolio assessment of students' learning is the best way. Just as an artist shows a portfolio to a prospective employer, students should be able to demonstrate learning from wherever they have learned -- work, MOOCs, informal training, military service, volunteer service, and more -- all in one place. And much of this learning will not involve a course at all.
If MOOCs are to be truly disruptive, they must link to competencies, credentials, degrees and/or ultimately jobs. Using a course-by-course, credit hour-by-credit hour approach to do this will not dramatically change the way people earn degrees. And dramatic change that allows for individual demonstrations of competencies is the only way to provide the education quality and agility necessary to truly recognize learning derived from free resources on the web. By focusing on competencies, we can align and accept learning experiences from everywhere.
Pamela Tate is president/CEO of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning.
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San Fransico Chonical: Russia and China call for an end to world 'domination'
Moscow -- Russia and China, teaming up in a thinly veiled attack on perceived U.S. efforts to dominate the world, issued a declaration Friday demanding respect for the right of all countries to develop free of outside interference.
Signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao on the second day of a summit here, the declaration denounced "the aspiration for monopoly and domination in international affairs" and called for an end to "attempts to divide nations into leaders and those being led."
While not mentioning the United States directly, the "Declaration on World Order in the 21st Century" left no doubt that Washington was its main target."
Folks, this is huge. As I outlined here and here, there is a growing threat coming from China and Russia. The Bear and the Dragon are beginning to form aliances with a simple goal: To neutralize the United States influence as a "The Supreme World Power".
Pay attention to this development. It is gaining momentum. The "trigger" that fires the gun will be Taiwan.
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News of the closure, which involves Ladbroke writing off pounds 52m and selling a substantial chunk of its remaining commercial property portfolio to Minerva for pounds 25m, also came on the day that London Clubs published its formal offer document for Capital Corporation.
Leisure analysts in the City interpreted Ladbroke's announcement as clearing the decks ahead of a move for Capital. There is also some speculation that Peter George, chief executive of Ladbroke, may instead have his sights targeted on London Clubs itself.
London Clubs is offering 47 shares for every 100 in Capital Corporation, which values the target at almost pounds 180m. London Clubs shares rose 3p to 384p last night which values Capital Corporation shares at 180p. But Capital's shares were unchanged at 202p with investors anticipating a better offer.
Crucial to the offer could be the six shareholders which have over 50 per cent of both companies. London Clubs has comfortably outperformed Capital over the past three years in profits growth and share price performance, and its offer is already 31 times Capital's likely earnings per share in 1996 and 20 times its prospective earnings in 1997. But it is already committed to an expensive refurbishment programme, there is no cash alternative and the way is open for bigger rivals, which could include Rank as well as Ladbroke, to enter the fray.
Greg Freehely, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, believes, however, that Ladbroke would do better to use its links with Hilton Hotels to invest directly in casinos in Las Vegas, where returns are higher, rather than get involved in a bidding war with London Clubs.
Ladbroke's decision to close its property division has been on the cards since the company's founder, Cyril Stein, retired in 1994. At its peak in 1993 the property portfolio was worth pounds 1bn and made a profit of pounds 45m. It had been run down to pounds 373m by the end of 1995 and the rump is now valued at less than pounds 70m.
The property division will be treated as a discontinued activity in the 1996 accounts. After property dealing losses of pounds 5.6m its operating profit was pounds 500,000.
Ten properties are being sold to Minerva at a 27 per cent discount to book value. Only pounds 16m is payable on completion - the balance will be staggered over the next five years. It is Minerva's first acquisition since it was floated last November. Ladbroke also confirmed the sale of a large office building in Boston, Massachusetts, to HN Gorin for $23m.
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- The feeling during the entire three-hour practice was one of extreme intensity
- There was a special guest on hand - Former Stanford, Notre Dame, and Washington head coach Tyrone Willingham. We were told he was just a "visitor" but he was seen taking notes during practice
- SJSU head coach Dick Tomey said that barring injuries he doesn't expect any of the incoming freshman to play this season
- Running back Patrick Perry still has not been cleared for playing time this season but will continue to practice with the team
- Incoming freshman Pierce Burton has been moved from defense to offensive tackle due to the injury of Jon Moreno
- Freshman Ronnie Yell and sophmore Tanner Burns were returning punts
- Freshman Harrison Waid was booming kicks from 40-plus yards - and making them through the uprights
- The team, to a man, is excited about playing USC and is using that game to push themselves
- Coach Tomey said there may be one academic casualty in the two-deep roster, but didn't name a player
- Sophomore linebacker Wade O'Neill had a severe limp, which appeared to be an injury sustained during the practice
- Quarterbacks on the field today were Kyle Reed, Jordan La Secla, Chad Bozzo, Myles Eden, Jason Kafka, Cory Murphy, and Dasmen Stewart
- Coach Tomey said several walk-ons would be receiving scholarships this season
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I cry for Rome.
To hear the street artists' song
Echoing along the way
As we sit on the grassy knoll.
I cry for Rome.
To mingle amongst history
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Everything words fail to tell.
I cry for Rome.
To gaze upon the beauty
Nestled through the streets
Millions before me have taken in.
I cry for Rome.
To finally have a sense of belonging
Knowing souls like mine
Have passed through just as I am.
I cry for Rome.
The place my heart longs to be.
Where when words fail,
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