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News: U.S. Push for Free Online Courses - Inside Higher Ed

The Obama administration is pushing for creating free online courses at the high school/community college level, focusing on basic skills and job training. Some sort of examination/assessment is also possible, plus the idea of mixing free and paid courses at community colleges to reduce the cost of tuition.

Tags: e-learning, education, free, openaccess, communitycollege on 2009-06-30 and saved by 13 people -All Annotations (78) -About

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Meta-Analysis Shows Online Learning Better, Blended Even Better

According to a meta-analysis by the US Department of Education, face-to-face courses are less effective than online and blended learning. They caution against viewing this as simply a matter of the medium though. It's the changes in what online and blended learning allow (like opportunities for collaboration) that are likely making the difference.

Tags: research, education, highered, e-learning, blended on 2009-06-30 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Clive on Learning: It's not enough to be a professional, you also have to act like one

Good points on acting like real professionals, not just "order takers" when developing training/learning

Tags: instructionaldesign, career, training on 2009-06-26 -All Annotations (2) -About

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5 Common Visual Design Mistakes - The Rapid eLearning Blog

Common visual design mistakes made by instructional designers, plus links and resources for further reading.

Tags: design, graphicdesign, e-learning, instructionaldesign on 2009-06-25 and saved by 5 people -All Annotations (5) -About

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Communities of practice

Introduction to communities of practice by Etienne Wenger

Tags: community, education, plc on 2009-06-17 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Could Power Point Presentations Be Stifling Learning?

This summary doesn't say how large the sample size was, and the researchers clarify that it's only about teaching new concepts. However, it is interesting to note that animation in PowerPoint slide decreased recall and comprehension.

Tags: powerpoint, learning, animation, multimedia, research on 2009-06-15 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (5) -About

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The Snack Bar | TechIntersect

Tech companies can provide snacks for their employees without worrying that people will spend all day gorging themselves at the snack bar. So why don't companies and schools trust that if they give people access to social media that they won't spend all day on Facebook? I like the analogy here.

Tags: web2.0, socialnetworking, education on 2009-06-06 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Wired Campus: Electronic Portfolios: a Path to the Future of Learning - Chronicle.com

Argument for the use of electronic portfolios as a more student-centered assessment of learning

Tags: portfolios, education, highered, studentcentered, assessment on 2009-05-29 and saved by 10 people -All Annotations (8) -About

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flickrCC

Search for Creative Commons images on Flickr and edit in Picnik right from the search

Tags: creativecommons, flickr, images on 2009-05-28 and saved by 216 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Flickr: Reinventing Project-Based Learning

Pictures of project-based learning with digital tools

Tags: pbl, education, flickr, collaboration on 2009-05-28 and saved by 11 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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CITE Journal - Science: Blogs: Enhancing Links in a Professional Learning Community of Science and Mathematics Teachers

Small study of reflective blogging to build a learning community with teachers. Overall, the results were positive and the teachers felt the experience was beneficial, but there were some technical and other difficulties.

Tags: blog, community, education, research, plc on 2009-05-27 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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What Is a "Professional Learning Community"? // Richard DuFour

Three "big ideas" about professional learning communities

Tags: plc, education, k-12 on 2009-05-27 and saved by 16 people -All Annotations (11) -About

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A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy

Why aesthetics are important to web design (and by extension, online learning)--we shouldn't approach visual design as an add on, but a core part of the design

Tags: usability, webdesign on 2009-04-24 and saved by 44 people -All Annotations (85) -About

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GoErie.com: High-tech instruction method 'facilitates learning'

Nice write-up in the Erie, PA paper about a high school teacher (and new PLS online facilitator) using the technology skills he learned in the Building Online Collaborative Environments course I helped develop

Tags: k-12, education, 1to1, web2.0 on 2009-04-22 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Will at Work Learning: New Research Report on Using Culturally, Linguistically, and Situationally Relevant Scenarios

Research on how to support learning with scenarios that are relevant to the specific situation. Even though this is explicitly about workplace training, the major recommendations could be adapted for instructional design in education contexts too.

Tags: learning, training, research, scenarios, context, diversity, instructionaldesign on 2009-04-16 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Only for MY Kid

1998 article by Alfie Kohn on barriers to progressive changes in education, with some proposals for better approaches for working with parents to help them see the benefits

Tags: education, k-12, highered, diversity, economics on 2009-04-10 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Innovate: A Learning Theory for 21st-Century Students

The author calls this a new learning theory combining behaviorism & cognitivism. I see a new instructional design model that combines elements from a number of different sources, but I'm not sure I see a new learning theory. The model seems very complex; how long would you have to work with this before you internalized all the separate parts of the model?

Student results were better using this model. However, the control group was tested before doing a roleplaying game and the experimental groups did the game prior to testing. This could just show that roleplaying helps students understand characters in the Aeneid. Free registration required.

Tags: learningtheories, instructionaldesign, technology, education, k-12, games on 2009-04-04 and saved by 18 people -All Annotations (77) -About

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Inside Higher Ed: The Impact of Dropping the SAT

Want to improve diversity at a college without spending a lot of money? Drop the requirement for SAT or ACT as part of admissions.

Tags: education, highered, standardizedtests, diversity on 2009-03-26 and saved by 6 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Donald Clark Plan B: Brilliant 35 studies in media and learning

Great summary of research points on our perceptions of media with implications for using media effectively for learning. For example, audio quality matters a lot, but video quality can be low and still effective. Large, wide screens are preferred over higher quality images on smaller screens.

Tags: learning, e-learning, research, multimedia, audio, video, images on 2009-03-26 -All Annotations (2) -About

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Whatever You Do, Don’t Drop Practice | Tom Werner

Summary of research which compared courses with the same content but with specific elements of Gagne's instructional events removed. The strongest correlation with student performance and satisfaction was with practice with feedback.
(This is an old post, but it's moved since I originally bookmarked it.)

Tags: gagne, instructionaldesign, learning, research, spia on 2009-03-19 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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