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"Moodle Training Materials for University of Canberra Staff"

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Today, I will show you how to create a PowerPoint elearning template. We’re going to use the screen shot as a starting point, but this isn’t about copying the image. Instead, it’s about the process you go through as you copy it. The idea is to grow in your visual design skills, learn some techniques, and then learn to build it in PowerPoint. The production process in PowerPoint helps you become more efficient and faster when building courses.

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Gathers online lectures from major universities.

Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.

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TeacherFileBox is an online subscription based service that gives you access to 50,000+ print-on-demand activities from over 500 Evan-Moor books.

In addition, the site also features organizational and calendaring tools that help you create lesson plans easily and effectively.

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Is a college education really like a string quartet? Back in 1966, that was the assertion of economists William Bowen, later president of Princeton, and William Baumol. In a seminal study, Bowen and Baumol used the analogy to show why universities can't easily improve efficiency.

If you want to perform a proper string quartet, they noted, you can't cut out the cellist nor can you squeeze in more performances by playing the music faster. But that was then -- before MP3s and iPods proved just how freely music could flow. Before Google scanned and digitized 7 million books and Wikipedia users created the world's largest encyclopedia. Before YouTube Edu and iTunes U made video and audio lectures by the best professors in the country available for free, and before college students built Facebook into the world's largest social network, changing the way we all share information. Suddenly, it is possible to imagine a new model of education using online resources to serve more students, more cheaply than ever before.

"The Internet disrupts any industry whose core product can be reduced to ones and zeros," says Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO of education startup Knewton. Education, he says, "is the biggest virgin forest out there." Ferreira is among a loose-knit band of education 2.0 architects sharpening their saws for that forest. Their first foray was at MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free. Today, you can find the full syllabi, lecture notes, class exercises, tests, and some video and audio for every course MIT offers, from physics to art history. This trove has been accessed by 56 million current and prospective students, alumni, professors, and armchair enthusiasts around the world. "The advent of the Web brings the ability to disseminate high-quality materials at almost no cost, leveling the playing field," says Cathy Casserly, a senior partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, who in her former role at the Hewlett Foundation provided seed funding for MIT

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Online e-textbooks including an iPhone app to veiw e-textbooks

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The free, easy way to teach and learn online

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You should join to get the weekly distance education newsletter, packed with useful info you can use in your job, access to a community of professionals, community forums, and a FREE copy of Copyright Issues in Distance Education.

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I’m in Orlando this week at the eLearning Guild’s Annual Gathering. If you happen to be there swing by the Articulate booth and say hello. On Wednesday, I’ll be facilitating a session on rapid elearning at the ID Zone. In fact, here’s a link to a resource page for that session. It has a bunch of examples of rapid elearning courses including our recent Articulate Guru Award winners.

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This free, 526-page report contains short one- to three-page profiles of the products featured in three Brandon Hall Research KnowledgeBases:
Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase

Authoring Tool KnowledgeBase

This online resource contains 20 to 30-page profiles of 100+ tools used to create almost any type of online learning content including courses, games and tests. More>


LMS KnowledgeBase

LMS KnowledgeBase

Containing 40-60 page profiles of 92 systems, the LMS KnowledgeBase is the most comprehensive resource available to help you compare learning management systems and select the system that best meets your needs. More>
LCMS KnowledgeBase

LCMS KnowledgeBase

A learning content management system (LCMS) can elevate your content creation to a new level. An LCMS stores your content as small bits of information that can be modified and reassembled as needed. These systems also act as single-source authoring platforms that can output content to many different formats. This online resource contains profiles of 38 of the best systems. More>

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I constantly hear people (across many organizations) complain about their learning management system (LMS). They complain that their LMS has a terrible interface that is nearly unusable. Upgrades are difficult and cumbersome. Their employees’ data is locked in to a proprietary system. Users hate the system. It’s ugly. (Did I miss anything?) I think LMSs may have jumped the shark.

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I’ve written before about learning portals and how they can be a great way to improve access to learning materials for users. I wanted to provide a more in-depth post that shows how you can create your own learning portal using the freely available content management system, WordPress. So, let’s get started…

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This Directory lists (in alphabetical order by Twitter username) learning professionals from both education and corporate training, as well as other related professionals and e-learning products and services on Twitter. If you are a learning professional who wants to connect with others via Twitter and would like to appear in the Directory, email me with the entry details you would like to have.

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Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.\n\nCurriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

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I believe that the read/write Web, or what we are calling Web 2.0, will culturally, socially, intellectually, and politically have a greater impact than the advent of the printing press. I believe that we cannot even begin to imagine the changes that are going to take place as the two-way nature of the Internet begins to flower, and that even those of us who have spent time imagining this future will be astounded by what happens. I'm going to identify ten trends in this regard that I think have particular importance for education and learning, and then discuss seven steps I think educators can take to make a difference during this time.

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Great slide that differentiates PLE vs. VLE and the PLE is where learning takes place.\n\nA PLE (personal learning environment) is:\n\n a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage their learning, manage both content and process, and communicate with others in the process of learning.\n\nIn contrast, a virtual learning environment (VLE) or learning management system (LMS), such as Blackboard or Moodle, is:\n\n a software system designed to help teachers by facilitating the management of educational courses for their students, especially by helping teachers and learners with course administration. The system can often track the learners' progress, which can be monitored by both teachers and learners.\n\nNotice the difference? A VLE/LMS is all about controlling how you learn. A PLE is about giving you control over how you learn.

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CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring tool that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.

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Studywiz Spark provides K-12 teachers, parents and students an online space where education is made more effective through a teacher-managed solution that distributes content regardless of delivery device, optimizes safe web instruction, personalizes learning, increases interaction through student-centered community and provides tools for assessment and real-time feedback of student progress.

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The aim of this site is to help you gain the skills to build your own personal learning network (PLN)!

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The solution.

Fortunately, the solution is simple. We don’t have to tear the walls down. We just have to stop pretending that the walls separate us from the world, and begin working with students in the pursuit of answers to real and relevant questions.

When we do that we can stop denying the fact that we are enveloped in a cloud of ubiquitous digital information where the nature and dynamics of knowledge have shifted. We can acknowledge that most of our students have powerful devices on them that give them instant and constant access to this cloud (including almost any answer to almost any multiple choice question you can imagine). We can welcome laptops, cell phones, and iPods into our classrooms, not as distractions, but as powerful learning technologies. We can use them in ways that empower and engage students in real world problems and activities, leveraging the enormous potentials of the digital media environment that now surrounds us. In the process, we allow students to develop much-needed skills in navigating and harnessing this new media environment, including the wisdom to know when to turn it off. When students are engaged in projects that are meaningful and important to them, and that make them feel meaningful and important, they will enthusiastically turn off their cellphones and laptops to grapple with the most difficult texts and take on the most rigorous tasks.

There are many faculty around the world who have enthusiastically embraced the challenge to bring meaning and significance back into the classroom. I hope that they will comment here and enrich us all with their ideas. If you are interested in the specifics of how I attempt to solve the significance problem in the large class featured in the video and discussed in this post, check out the World Simulation, a project in which students explore the dynamics of how the world works in order to create a simulation recreating the past 500 years of history and exploring 100 years into the future. I discuss the project and my use of technology i

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