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Digital Learning - beyond eLearning and Blended Learning
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The many dimensions of Digital Learning - edtech, eLearning, blended, authentic, online
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Google offers up some amazing tools to help you get students thinking, learning, connecting, and sharing. One of the newest, and perhaps the coolest, additions to Google’s suite of online tools is the recently updated Google+ Hangouts. Through Hangouts, up to ten users can video conference at once, and the service is easily connected to existing Google+ circles, offering up a whole host of exciting ways teachers can make use of it for educational applications. Via The New Company, Ana Rodera, Kim Flintoff
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We created this augmented reality piece to help Methodist Healthcare illustrate a brain tumor. This 3D brain was a big hit for them at both trade shows and o... Via evangelina chavez, Ana Rodera, Kim Flintoff
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UC BerkeleyOnline education: ETS launches a one-stop production suiteUC BerkeleyThere, Educational Technology Services (ETS) has carved out a space in its video-recording studio, equipping it with a flexible configuration of lights and electronic... Via Mark Smithers, Kim Flintoff
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Want a culture of innovation? Choose a few of the following guidelines and make them happen. If not YOU, who? If not NOW, when? Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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In the 21st century, the most perceptive educational thinkers recognize that something new is happening to learning. Models of providing an education that developed to meet the needs of students of the last two centuries, while not irrelevant, are increasingly being transformed and infiltrated by the introduction and integration of new tools and technologies, and novel approaches to work, many of which are now commonplace in business and consumer spheres. The emphasis on collaboration and critical thinking to solve problems, and the flattening of the world of commerce are challenging the fundamental assumptions of what an education must provide to its young people in order for them to succeed or even cope in a complex world. Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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Designing and Orchestrating Online Discussions
David L. Baker
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This author’s position is that asynchronous online discussions face an array of resolvable pedagogical and course management challenges. Online discussions can transform mere course chatter into a cyber forum of student-centered learning through meticulous planning, designing and orchestrating. After introducing common issues, a literature review summarizes the contributions that online discussions bring to distance learning. The author then addresses pedagogical and managerial issues that plague online discussions with strategies that instructors may readily employ. In the pedagogical realm, these include insights on organizing online discussions, using groups to facilitate interactions, establishing discussion parameters, and ensuring that the course syllabus introduces online discussion details. In the managerial realm, approaches are offered regarding overseeing discussion windows, using icebreakers, assessing student performance, ongoing communications, maintaining an online presence, netiquette, and a variety of other online discussion tips. In support of online instructors, the article weaves in relevant literature with the hard learned lessons from the author’s ongoing attempts to improve online discussions. It concludes by urging instructors to cultivate improvement continuously through candid self-critique supplemented by student feedback.
Keywords: Asynchronous learning; distance learning, online pedagogy, online groups; online discussions; and discussion assessment. Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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"From a administrative and financial aspect BYOD makes sense. You don’t have to provide the students with either laptops, leases or access to machines the cost savings are brilliant."
From an educational aspect as well... Via Kim Flintoff
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Medical education is the science of teaching and learning in medicine related subjects or in other words in related specialties. Via Kim Flintoff
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Thoughtful prognistication from Steve Wheeler about what Web 3.0 learning might look like. Basically, he expresses the ideas the 3.0 will be characterized by multi-touch 3D user access and richer collaboration affordances. Wheeler also offers links to several other writers' work that has influenced his thinking. -JL Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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http://nmc.org The NMC (New Media Consortium) is an international community of experts in educational technology — from the practitioners who work with new t... Via Kim Flintoff
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Links to a number of well done videos and publications from the MacArthur Foundation regarding youth, media, schools, libraries, new media, and learning. -JL Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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online learning and distance education resources BY TONY BATES Vol. 14, No. 4 of the Journal of Educational Technology and Society is a collection of papers from researchers ‘working on different disciplines related to the design, development, use and evaluation of technology-enhanced learning environments and devising the new technologies that will be the foundation of the next generation of e-learning systems.’ Via Ana Rodera, Kim Flintoff
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The new app from Educreations is available in the Apple App Store today (iTunes link). The app is designed to make it easy to create, narrate, and record whiteboard video tutorials on the iPad and to share them with others. Via Sam Gliksman, Ana Rodera, Kim Flintoff
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RT @opensourceway: The results of @BYU 's #openaccess survey of faculty | http://t.co/DJ0Ax4DW... Via Mark Smithers, Kim Flintoff
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The research shows that it is possible to move from a pedagogy of abundance to a pedagogy that supports human beings in their learning through the active creation of resources and learning places by both learners and course facilitators. This pedagogy is based on the building of connections, collaborations, and the exchange of resources between people, the building of a community of learners, and the harnessing of information flows on networks. Via Nik Peachey, Mark Smithers, Kim Flintoff
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Mr. Harris engages in an extensive and detailed description and analysis of Personalized Learning, selecting it as the most important of the 8 emerging trends in educational technology - thus his choice of "All Roads Lead Here" as the title for this piece. He does an excellent job and provides extensive links for readers to investigate further. -JL Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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12 year old Adora Svitak teaches 21st century skills to teachers using a smartboard. Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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By Leah Miller and Lisa Nielsen (Image is the flag of the Independent Student Union of Nepal)
16-year-old Leah Miller is [a]... former student who has chosen to opt out of high school so she could acquire an education that was best personalized to her learning goals. To follow is her story complete with the presentation she put together to convince her parents she was making the right decision. Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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Another in the trend towards open access learning...Stanford supporitng 35,000 students in 3 classes... Via Kim Flintoff
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Personalisation, collaboration and informal learning will be at the core of learning in the future. The increased pace of change will bring new skills and competences to the fore, in particular generic, transversal and cross-cutting skills…. With the evolution of ICT, personalised learning and individual mentoring will become a reality and teachers/trainers will need to be trained to exploit the available resources and tools to support tailor-made learning pathways and experiences which are motivating and engaging, but also efficient, relevant and challenging… Most importantly, traditional E&T institutions – schools and universities, vocational and adult training providers – will need to reposition themselves in the emerging learning landscape . They will need to experiment with new formats and strategies for learning and teaching to be able to offer relevant, effective and high quality learning experiences in the future. Via GRIAL Univ Salamanca. Aprendoenred., Rogério Queirós, DAvid Cordina, michel verstrepen, Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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A range of articles and resources. especially interesting piece on self-directed learning programs in non traditonal university. Via Kim Flintoff
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Lauren Wagner discusses the Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale and how it may be used to both assess and build learner readiness to succeed in self-directed learning. -JL Via Jim Lerman, Kim Flintoff
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Standing for journalism, strengthening democracy | Journalism training, media news & how to's...
More and more news sites have been using Storify to capture reaction and highlight interesting discussions taking place on social networks. And journalism educators have also started using it — to create multimedia course content, organize handouts and teach students how to curate social media. Via Kim Flintoff
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