Máster en E-learning. Universidad de Sevilla

Very interesting result, though hardly surprising, of a survey held by Jane Hart about learing in the workplace. The main conclusion is that professionals do not like company-based training or e-learning and do like self-organised and self managed learning, preferably with team collaboration. The question now is how to organise this from an instructional perspective, after all, self-organised and self-managed should not mean 'you figure it out yourselves'.

My answer to this is to set up clever ways of providing peer support, using trust enhancement, recommender systems, etc. I have furhter detailed this in a fortcoming book chapter in Littlejohn, L. & Margaryan A. (Eds.) Technology-enhanced Professional Learning: Processes, Practices and Tools. London: Routledge, which is still in the works however (expected publication date early 2014) (@pbsloep)

(Learning at workplace - 23 avril 2013)

On track

In the fall of 2011, Stanford University offered three of its engineering courses—Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Introduction to Databases—for free online. Anyone with Internet access could sign up for them. As Sebastian Thrun, the director of Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, tells the story, he assumed just a handful of people would enroll in his graduate-level AI class. Instead, more than 160,000 students registered. A massive number.

That’s when the enormous hype began about massive open online courses, better known as “MOOCs.” Since then, Thrun and his fellow lab professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng have founded education organizations that offer free online classes. Thrun’s start-up is called Udacity (in part, a takeoff on the word “audacious”), and Koller and Ng’s is Coursera. In December 2011, in response to Stanford’s initiatives, MIT launched its own effort, called MITx (short for “Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange”), and a few months later joined forces with Harvard, drolly changing the name of the organization to edX. A consortium of British universities has also created its own MOOC platform, Futurelearn. So far, more than 90 universities worldwide have teamed up with one or more of these MOOC providers, prompting the New York Times to crown 2012 as “The Year of the MOOC.”

The techniques described in this article deal directly with how to miinimize distractions when learning online. Clearly the testing effect can minimize mind wandering.  

However, this insight delt with one of my major concerns, "Another surprising effect of the testing, Szpunar said, was to reduce testing anxiety among students, and to ease their fears that the lecture material would be very challenging."

If short, low stakes, multiple trial testing can lower test anxiety, everyone wins.   do I need to emphasize that short aumtomatic graded tests are something the LMS does very well?  When we get the rare combination of a design that improves student retention, with easy and time savings for the instructor it's time to PAY ATTENTION!

Well put- and the comments by Dennis T OConnor are also well received.  A strategy for getting students focused on the content and checking for understanding while ALSO minimizing test anxiety, is a great strategy!

Useful for tertiary educators too

We were discussing this yesterday in a committee meeeting @canisiuscollege.  It's a way to start the paperless movement!  

Heading that way as much as possible!

กรอบแนวคิดที่น่าสนใจสำหรับ m-Learning สิ่งสำคัญ ได้แก่ การที่ผู้ใช้ (ทั้งผู้เรียนและผู้สอน)จำเป็นที่จะต้องพิจารณาถึง มิติต่างๆ ของการบูรณาการเครื่องมือการเรียนรู้ใหม่ๆ เข้าไปใช้ในชั้นเรียน มากกว่า รู้จักวิธีใช้เครื่องมือเหล่านั้น เพียงอย่างเดียว

I personally would change the Social Aspect to the Resource (learning material) Aspect. I think the social can be captured through the learner aspect but I see the learning material as being a critical part of the framework, especially when it comes to putting theory into practice.

Time is hard to find. Updating and learing new skills in the most time and cost effectine way is the way of the future.

According to this info graphic people are making Mobile devices their preferred medium of accessing the internet. 

Es una estimación interesante y por lo que parece imparable. En mi opinión abre una brecha entre distintos niveles educativos en quanto a contexto y contenido. Muy interesante!

Diversity. Different tool for different tasks