Author: Michael Hill
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Resources for Remote Teaching
“File:Child and Computer.jpg” by r. nial bradshaw is licensed under CC BY 2.0 First Posted 3/13/2020 3:30pm(Last Updated 3/18/2020 11:57pm) Many of us are taking the extraordinary step of shifting our classes to a remote instruction format to allow students to learn from home and lower the risk of transmitting the Novel Coronavirus. Please feel […]
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Calling it what it is: Remote vs. online learning in the time of Coronavirus
On March 10, Jonathan Zimmerman, an education and history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argued in the Chronicle Review that the coronavirus crisis provides an opportunity to generate evidence about the efficacy of online instruction. Dr. Zimmerman asserts that we owe it to our students to find out whether online truly provides a viable […]
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Helpful Stata Links
Style Guides & Coding In Stata coding, Style is the Essential: A brief commentary on do-file style Embrace Your Fallibility: Thoughts on Code Integrity Intro to Data Analysis & Visualization: Stata Cheat Sheets Official Stata Corp Links Stata: Data Analysis and Statistical Software Stata Press Stata Training Stata Support Stata List (Forum) The Stata Journal […]
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In Stata coding, Style is the Essential: A brief commentary on do-file style
“In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity is the essential.” – Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies for the Young“ Wilde, well known in his time for decadent style and flamboyant behavior, could have never imagined that his rather abruptly put witticism, extolling the virtue of style, […]
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Improving Literacy Beyond School Walls
Save the Children is an International, non-government (nonprofit) organization focused on providing services and support to children in 120 countries around the world. Literacy Boost is a key education program for Save the Children, providing student materials, teacher professional development, assessment programs, and community based programs to target communities. Literacy Boost is a particularly important program in the […]
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Resources for Brandman University DNP Students
Dear Biostatisticians- This page contains resources to help with the statistical analysis you will be conducting for your Clinical Scholarly Project. Please use the menus above (Resources>DNPU-701) to find links and resources, instructions for getting help with your statistical analysis, videos from the Brandman BioStats Class, SPSS Help, and example articles.
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USA Today College Reports on Community Colleges Article
USA Today College reported on a research project that I participated in along with Dr. Cassandra Hart and Elizabeth Freidmann about the impact of online community college courses in California. A link to the article can be found here: http://college.usatoday.com/2015/05/22/study-online-community-college-courses-found-to-be-ineffective/. We were actually quite careful in our paper, and the subsequent presentations at AERA and NBER, […]
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Heschinger Report: Five Studies find online courses are not working well at community colleges
http://hechingerreport.org/five-studies-find-online-courses-are-not-working-at-community-colleges/
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UC Davis School of Education: Online Courses: Cure All?
http://education.ucdavis.edu/research/online-courses-cure-all-think-again
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Teacher Professional Development, Beijing
In Fall, 2014, Michael and UC Davis Colleague Leslie Banes led a two week professional development seminar for the Chaoyang District in Beijing China. More information on the project can be found at the UC Davis School of Education: NEWS: Ph.D. Students Lead Professional Development for Teachers in China and at the Beijing Institute of Education, […]
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