CompendiumLD is a software tool for designing learning activities using a flexible visual interface. It is being developed as a tool to support lecturers, teachers and others invovled in education to help them articulate their ideas and map out the design or learning sequence.
Pilot tests are still popular among educational designers, as this article attests. But it is worth pointing out, I would say, that (small) pilot groups will misrepresent network effects. Often, something that works well with a lot of people will work really badly with a small group. Online discussions, games and simulations are among these. Often, the only test you can run is with a full audience, and not a pilot group at all. Karl Kapp, Kapp Notes, May 22, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Assessment, Simulations, Networks] [Previous][Next]
The web-based service, Yooba, is a powerful Flash CMS tool for interactive Flash-based content and requires no programming skills. Editors and creatives can administer, create and update Flash content as easily as static content. With Yooba, individuals and businesses (large and small) can make use of manageable Flash objects such as presentations, intros embedded into web sites.
Yooba public switch on is June 8th - but you can sign up for a reminder now.
Free downloadable e-book: Instructors and faculty at Rochester Institute of Technology share views and perspectives from their own personal experiences teaching in a blended format. They reveal why they did it, how, what they’d change in the future and what resulted from their efforts.
The London Pedagogy Planner (LPP) is a prototype for a collaborative online planning and design tool that supports lecturers in analysing, developing and sharing learning designs. LPP is based on a developing model of the components involved in learning design (e.g. learning outcomes, topics, teaching methods), and the critical relationships between them. As a decision tool, it makes the pedagogical design explicit as an output from the process, capturing it for testing, redesign, reuse and adaptation by the originator, or by others.