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05 Nov 09
at Learning Theories
Theories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction. Below is the index of learning theories, grouped in somewhat arbitrary categories. Note that this website is an iterative project and these entries are a work in progress; please leave comments with suggestions, corrections, and additional references.
Learning and Teaching Notes
A useful set of T&L guides.
04 Nov 09
Constructive Alignment and Biggs
"A good teaching system aligns teaching method and assessment to the learning activities stated in the objectives, so that all aspects of this system are in accord in supporting appropriate student learning. This system is called constructive alignment based as it is on the twin principles of constructivism in learning and alignment in teaching."
LMS Review Process and Documentation | UCTL
"Due to the merger with the Christchurch College of Education in January 2007 the University now has two supported Learning Management Systems (LMSs), Blackboard and Interact (known in the College as StudentNet). At the time of the merger it was agreed to support both systems until a review could be undertaken in 2008, with a view to moving to a single platform for 2009/2010. "
Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
"Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousands of CIOs and IT Directors at last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009."
01 Nov 09
News: E-Learning's 'Third Phase' - Inside Higher Ed
Though Blackboard's critics have worried the company might monopolize the market for e-learning tools, competition continues to surface -- notably from companies that once were more focused on the administrative side of campus computing.
News: E-Learning's 'Third Phase' - Inside Higher Ed | Diigo
SunGard Higher Education is today announcing plans to integrate Epsilen, a learning-based social networking platform, into its learning-management system. The partnership will give SunGard clients access to Epsilen’s collaboration and e-portfolio tools -- as well as 158 years’ worth of digital archives of The New York Times, whose parent company owns the majority share of Epsilen.
Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
One formula (of many) for a successful blog is to create a "learning blog". A blog that shares what you know, to help others. Even--or especially--if that means giving away your "secrets". Teaching people to do what you do is one of the best ways we know to grow an audience--an audience of users you want to help.
A Personal Cyberinfrastructure (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
Sometimes progress is linear. Sometimes progress is exponential: according to the durable Moore's Law, for example, computing power doubles about every two years. Sometimes, however, progress means looping back to earlier ideas whose vitality and importance were unrecognized or underexplored at the time, and bringing those ideas back into play in a new context. This is the type of progress needed in higher education today, as students, faculty, and staff inhabit and co-create their online lives.
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the real IT revolution in teaching and learning won't happen until each student builds a personal cyberinfrastructure that is as thoughtfully, rigorously, and expressively composed as an excellent essay or an ingenious experiment.
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students must be effective architects, narrators, curators, and inhabitants of their own digital lives.6 Students with this kind of digital fluency will be well-prepared for creative and responsible leadership in the post-Gutenberg age. Without such fluency, students cannot compete economically or intellectually, and the astonishing promise of the digital medium will never be fully realized.
30 Oct 09
Google Wave Use Cases: Education
"Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May, released as a 'Preview' product shortly after and 100,000 more invites were made available at the end of September."
ReadWriteWeb's List of Easy Video Aggregation Tools - ReadWriteStart
"When it comes to video discovery, the thrill of the hunt is only really fun when you're viewing more good than bad. You could scour your feeds for entertainment, but the fodder you'll file through is enough to feel like work. Tomorrow is a Friday, and we all know that you're going to mentally check out from your desk at about 1pm. With ReadWriteWeb's list of easy video aggregation services you can spend the afternoon curating your corporate videos, scouring for media clips or sharing amusing videos with friends: "
28 Oct 09
Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World : JISC
Essentially, these are Web 2.0 or Social Web technologies, technologies that enable communication, collaboration, participation and sharing.
Web 2.0 – the Social Web:
‘Software that supports group interaction’
Shirky C, 2003
As we began our work, the online lifestyle of young people going into higher education was inescapable, and those working in it had sensed a clear change in their students’ pre-entry experience. The time was ripe for an informed, impartial assessment of this and what it might herald for higher education policy and strategy. This was our remit. Since they represent the future, we took young learners as our baseline. We have, however, been concerned with learners of all ages.
A vision for the future: Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 2 « Tony Bates
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technology is a useful tool for creating a new kind of university, but much more important are structural and cultural changes in which technology will play a supporting role. Without these cultural and structural changes, technology cannot change the university on its own.
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I was able to enrol online as a guest student in three courses from three different universities I was interested in
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Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1 « Tony Bates
Is e-learning failing in higher education?
In previous blogs, I have discussed whether e-learning is failing in higher education. To answer the question, I have examined the expectations or goals for e-learning, and whether they are being achieved.
Finally, I come to the last goal or expectation: that e-learning will increase the cost-effectiveness of higher education. I will argue that this is the most important and valuable of all the goals for e-learning, but is the one that is furthest from being achieved.
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- Classes are organized at scheduled times in a fixed location on the assumption of full-time attendance.
- Students receive (at least within the same course) a ’standard’ or common product, in terms of curriculum (same lectures, same reading lists, etc. for each student in the course), delivered at the same time and place, irrespective of the needs of different kinds of students (full-time, part-time, working, following Henry Ford’s classic model-T car strategy: ‘you can have any colour you want, so long as it’s black’).
- To deal with large classes, another classic industrial strategy is used: hiring low-paid and less ‘qualified’ workers – adjuncts and graduate students – to take up the extra load.
- The institution is divided into departmental silos, with a hierarchical management structure of heads or directors of departments, deans and vice-presidents. Academic staff are also organized hierarchically: research student, post-doc, associate professor, full professor, departmental chair.
- The Spellings Commission in the USA (US Department of Education, 2006) even pushed (unsuccessfully) for standardized measurements of output, to allow comparison in ‘performance’ between institutions, reflecting a classic industrial mentality of ‘standardized’ products.
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Given the potential and benefits of digital learning, a radical re-thinking of the benefits and limitations of physical presence, related to the nature of the subject matter and the type of learner being targeted (e.g., high school leavers or lifelong learners, full-time or part-time students) is needed.
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19 Oct 09
The Future Online Learner - Market Research Reports - Research and Markets
The Future Online Learner report explores the results of a recent survey conducted for the purposes of identifying future trends in adult online higher education and informing program development and marketing decisions A national sample of adults who are not currently enrolled but are interested in...
14 Oct 09
Pedagogy of Online Teaching and Learning
"The resources listed below are designed to provide online RODP/ROCE instructors with principles and best practices for online teaching. "
Online Education in a Traditional University (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE
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Online Education in a Traditional University
Online Education in a Traditional University
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Online Education in a Traditional University
A department’s successful online program ran into insurmountable barriers at the university level; from the ashes comes a proposal for developing a university-wide infrastructure
By Bud McClure and Sandy Woolum
During the past five years we built a sizeable online program in the Psychology Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. During that time we learned a great deal about how to administer such a program. Our experience also led to the proposal described here for creating an infrastructure to support online programming in a traditional university.
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