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elearninglive.com » Captivate Audio Output Settings Comparison - Part One - Encoding Bitrate
Results of an experiment on the encoding bitrate for Captivate. Mark Siegriest is trying to find the best audio settings to balance sound quality and file size. The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down. 32kbps was the smallest file size in his sampling.
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Facilitating online communities - WikiEducator
Course from Wikieducator on communication and community for online facilitators. Offered as a formal course with a facilitator or informal participation at your own pace.
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Evaluating Online Learning
80-page PDF from the US Department of Education on evaluating K-12 online learning. I haven't read it all yet, but some of this would probably apply to higher ed settings, and maybe corporate settings. Includes examples & case studies of successful online K-12 programs.
more fromwww.ed.gov
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Working Wikily: The fine lines between content and curriculum and self-directed learning and instruction ....
Beth Kanter on the process of developing curriculum collaboratively with a "swarm" of contributors on a wiki
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e-Learning Centre by Learning Light - e-Learning Quotations
Quotes on e-learning, learning, education, and change.
more fromwww.e-learningcentre.co.uk
1: Introduction to The Web Standards Curriculum
Learn web standards online. Self paced, individual learning--this includes a series of articles by various authors, plus individual practice exercises and reflection questions. Currently 21 articles; more to be published in the future. Looks like this could be a pretty substantial open educational resource, especially as they continue to build articles. CC-NC-SA
more fromdev.opera.com
Online Tutoring e-Book 6 - Culture and Ethics - Facilitating Online Learning
Although this is written specifically for online tutors, much of the information and advice applies to online facilitators as well. The authors examine cultural differences in the online learning environment, including how diversity affects language, written text, images, metaphors, communication style, and online presence. Appendix B is a chart comparing different linguistic groups and cultures.
more fromotis.scotcit.ac.uk
Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity
2002 summary of research on how diversity affects online learning, focusing especially on Hispanics. Includes differences in communication due to culture, including differences between different Hispanic populations (i.e., Mexico isn't the same as Guatemala). Also notes that Hispanics are often on the wrong side of the digital divide and may have less prior experience with technology, therefore exhibiting fewer characteristics of the net generation.
more fromwww.usdla.org
JALN: Does one size fit all? Exploring Asynchronous learning in a multicultural environment
Small-scale study of cultural differences in an asynchronous learning environment, focusing on high and low context cultures. Includes a comparison of student perceptions of online learning based on their cultural background. High and low context learners both saw advantages to online learning, but their reasons differ.
more fromwww.sloan-c.org
An Inclusive Approach to Online Learning Environments: Models and Resources (PDF)
22-page article on designing for diversity in online learning. Examines how cultural differences can affect learning and shares culturally inclusive instructional design models. Table 1 on page 6 compares high-context and low-context learning (such as how formal student-teacher relationships are).
more fromeric.ed.gov
Designing for Diversity Within Online Learning Environments
The author argues that constructivist learning environments where multiple perspectives are respected and there is no single "right "answer" are better for encouraging diversity. The ideas for instructional design for diversity are more theory-based than practice-based, but this has some interesting concepts. "The major advantage of this learning model is that one of its key design goals is to encourage students to bring multiple perspectives to questions/cases/problems/issues and projects as part of their learning. This approach to learning views diversity as a strength to be exploited rather than a problem to be solved."
more fromwww.ascilite.org.au
Four Letter Words - How wiki and edit are making the Internet a better teaching tool - Using Wiki in Education -
Chapter in a "wiki book" (2 chapters are free, others require payment for the book). The beginning of this chapter is a basic intro to wikis, but the graphics explaining the workflow are interesting. The author argues that when you work with wikis, you get all the logistic pieces out of the way early in the creative process, leaving more time for actual writing and collaboration. In practice, I think there are times when you have to address the logistics issues throughout the process, but it's greatly reduced with wikis.
more fromwww.wikiineducation.com
ZaidLearn: University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!
Huge directory of links to free educational resources--open courseware, open educational resources, and general resources. Mostly higher ed.
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Learning in the Webiverse: How Do You Grade a Conversation?
Principles for assessing online discussions and other conversations (blogs, chat, etc.) by coherence, awareness of audience, and diction. Writing for asynchronous discussion isn't the same as writing an essay, and the author argues that students who simply post essays to the discussion board should receive good grades.
more fromwww.campustechnology.com
Global Education On a Dime: A Low-Cost Way to Connect | Edutopia
Edutopia summary of the Flat Classroom project, emphasizing the possibilities for global collaboration even without a big budget. Nice introduction to these ideas for those who aren't familiar with the project.
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Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Passion and Professional Development… Online
Mark Wagner on different philosophies for teaching, both face-to-face and online. From one of the assignments in PLS' Facilitator Skills Training.
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AU Press - The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition)
Terry Anderson has edited the second ed. of this book, available online under a CC-NC license. You can download the entire book or just individual chapters by specific authors. http://www.aupress.ca/books/Terry_Anderson.php
more fromwww.aupress.ca
Gartner: E-learning Market Pushing Toward Open Source
Interview on the increase of open source LMSs Moodle and Sakai in higher education
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Clive on Learning: Three tiers in the content pyramid
Clive Shepherd revises his model for e-learning tiers, adding a bottom level of social learning technology to the tiers of rapid development and high-end e-learning. High-end e-learning is a top-down model; social learning is bottom up. He makes good points about these tiers serving different purposes; they compliment each other depending on the needs of a particular situation.
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