The Center for Online Learning, Research and Service at the University of Illinois Springfield is launching a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) on “Online Learning Today, and Tomorrow.” It begins June 27, 2011 and runs for eight weeks. 
Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize higher education by allowing students from all over the world to not only hear his lectures, but to do homework assignments, be graded, receive a certificate for completing the course and use that to get a better job or gain admission to a better school. 
OSU wants to get meat packers to license the right to produce, sell steaks. What if Steven Covey was a technologist, data professional, or data scientist? Would the best-selling author–best known for promoting his ”Seven Habits of Highly Effective People“–have thrived in today’s data-driven world? I believe he could have thrived, if he adapted to the complexity and practical realities of working with data and technology. Like today’s best data pros, he would have succeeded by combining technical skills with the principle of “Beginning with the End in Mind” (Habit #2). He would also have needed to take the next step, rolling his sleeves up and figuring out HOW to achieve his most essential goals.
I call this next step ”Causal Clarity,” by which I mean achieving a clear vision for HOW a goal will be achieved. What will cause the desired result? What are the preconditions? What are the sequence of steps–sometimes thousands of them–that lie between the current state and the desired state? 
Almost 83 million US consumers visited education sites in September 2011, up 12% month-over-month, making education the second fastest growing category, according to... 
Discover the most intelligent video collections on YouTube. A great way to make educational use of the most popular video site on the web. Via Karin Gilbert 
"The more I use Twitter, the more I understand the power that comes from connecting. Connecting with friends, connecting with colleagues, connecting with leaders and connecting with valuable sources. It all builds into what has become my most trusted source for professional development and generating ideas. With a real opportunity to impact personal, professional and intellectual growth, here are five tips to help you build, nurture and grow your PLN with Twitter."
Great tips for those starting out! Via Anne Whaits, Heiko Idensen 
Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education... ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Mohsen Saadatmand 
By Rob Van Nood
"I was using portfolios with limited success and spending a lot of time on them, until Evernote came into the picture.
"When I first started researching options, I was coming across a lot of companies that were really expensive, charging a lot for each student’s use. I also knew that we needed an app for mobile devices that would make it easy to capture and document paperwork and I wasn’t finding that in most of the tools I was evaluating. Evernote was free, had an app for virtually every device, and we could get started right away.
"After creating accounts for the students [learn more about how to get set up in the Portfolio Forum discussion] capturing and organizing information became insanely easy. Here is how we are using Evernote in the classroom:"
Via Julie Dalley Via Jim Lerman, Dean Mantz 
When Carolyn Li came into my office for her first coaching session she looked seriously concerned.
She had just stepped into a senior role and while she possessed many of the skills for success, she was frustrated in her attempts to bond with her new team.
"I can't get them to take the initiative and come up with solutions on their own," she complai It's become much cheaper and easier to put college courses online, and new technologies have only made these classes more valuable. Via Shannon D. Smith |
Last week, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote with evangelical zeal about the arrival of Massive Online Open Courses, the free courses from top institutions available to students anywhere in the world. Not only would MOOCs be a huge industry in five years, he said, but financially strapped community colleges could use the online lectures while their own professors could work “face-to-face” with students. Friedman has been wrong before with this kind of technology related over-earnestness: In 1999, he wrote about how easy it would be for mom-and-pop online storesto compete with Amazon.com. But even so, Friedman remains a global trend 
Google is bulking up on patents to protect its new augmented reality glasses project from legal attack, with at least nine new patents issued in the past week to cover various aspects of the futuristic devices. The patents provide a glimpse into what a heads-up display from Google could provide to real-life users beyond what we learned when Google unveiled Project Glass last month. 
A small but growing cadre of educators is trying to exploit Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion.
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TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.
Beginning today on a new, dedicated YouTube channel, TED-Ed will release 12 short, animated videos aimed at teachers and high school students. The TED-Ed videos will be shorter (3-10 minutes) than the normal 18-minute TED Talks and rely on animation more than a talking head. Via Karin Gilbert 
For much longer than I've been alive Shakespeare's works have been read and performed in schools. But do we don't really know how the original performances of Shakespeare's plays sounded. That could change with completion of the British Library's new audio project. The project features 75 minutes of recordings created after much research into the original pronunciations. The complete recording is not available for free, but NPR has published a couple of excerpts in this recent story about the project. 
I think this is still the best introduction to the process of creating and publishing video--KYou Tube Video Editor, that is. You can learn to shoot, upload, edit, mashup, edit some more and publish. It is the classic programmers 'fast prototype'. Make stuff, make it fast, make mistakes, make it right. You cannot beat the feeling of learning satisfaction with this tool. That makes it a positive addiction in my book--feel good learning.
"The YouTube Video editor lets you make quick edits to your uploaded YouTube videos. You can combine multiple clips, incorporate Creative Commons footage, enhance your clips with effects, and more." Via Terry Elliott, Karin Gilbert 
This website enables you to upload a video and convert it into a series of images that you can print to make notes on. This is very useful for taking notes about video lectures or information rich documentary type programs. Via Nik Peachey, Karin Gilbert 
Mobile devices and apps continue to climb the list as game-based learning stays in the same spot for three years.
Several examples share how they changed their policies so students can use mobile devices including Foryth County Schools in Georgia and Osseo Area Schools in Minnesota started a "bring your own device" initiative. Now personal learning environments moves up to two to three years. Via Barbara Bray 
Here's a chart that explains the differences between personalization, differentiation, and individualization. Via kathyvsr
As the editor of the journal Innovations, I'm asked with some regularity, "So, what is innovation anyhow? How would you..."? (eyebrows usually furrow here) "... define it? |
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