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There is an eminent revolution about to happen in the online education sector. Unishared focus on collaboration and peer learning. It pushes students to share everything they learn in classrooms all the time.
KF: Taking a connectivist and sharist appoach? Certainly has the feel of an egalitarian system but I do wonder how mainstream education will respond. 
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We offer these Digital Diet Small Bytes as a free resource to you with the hopes it will help you to find new ways to keep trying digital tools into your classrooms. They are produced under Creative Commons, so please feel free to send them to your colleagues!
KF: Topics currently covered Google Forms Mindmeister Mixbook Wordle Skype Prezi
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Program handouts for the Educational Technology Journals workshop shared by the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center at Northern Illinois University...
The following list includes journals pertaining to various aspects of educational technology, online learning, or related issues
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"Mural.ly is a new tool (still in beta, launched last week) that is a cross between Prezi and mind maps. It’s easy to use and share what you create (perfect for most students, teachers, and parents) but the real beauty of mural.ly is in its lack of structure. What draws me to use the site is the ability to fluidly lay out all your ideas, thoughts, images, and whatever else you want on one simple board. It’s designed to be home to your random ideas, inspiration, and other thoughts." Via Anne Whaits
LundTechIntegration's curator insight,
January 21, 2013 12:22 PM
This has so many possiblities for students. The ability to collaborate and share resources on a project, creating a place for an artist to brainstorm their ideas, and a place to brainstorm for content, planning or curriculum. Looking forward to learning more about this site and how to implement in the classroom. 
Kimberley Lyles-Folkman, Ph.D.'s curator insight,
February 23, 2013 9:20 PM
We used mural.ly as a class...so far we like it as a tool in which to share ideas.
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"Applications for Education
If you want all of your students to view the same webpage at once, you can push links out to your students through your Infuse Learning room. That could be helpful for having classroom discussions about current events articles that you find online. Just copy the link and send it out to all of your students through your Infuse Learning room.
Finally, by offering audio narration and translation, Infuse Learning becomes accessible to a part of our student population that can't use some other student response systems."
KF: Another in the growing suite of response systems. This one has some big +ves - audio, drawing and its FREE. Still a very structured environment and feels very teacher directed. Heavy emphasis on assessment like tools - limited capcity for peer-to-peer interaction.
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You can bundle your favorite Wikipedia articles in a nicely formatted ebook and read it offline on any mobile phone, ebook reader or Tablet. Via Alfredo Calderón, Rui Guimarães Lima
Ken Morrison's comment,
September 30, 2012 5:33 AM
HI Gimm Jimun. This is very cool. Thanks for following my topics. I hope they are helpful for you. Do you live in Korea, by chance? Ken
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Summary: Can Microsoft convince you that renting Office is better than buying? They're using a classic carrot-and-stick approach to get you to switch. Sticking with "traditional" software will cost you dearly.
KF: I suppose one has to question if Microsoft Office has any value in the new market place - Libre/Open Office probably does as well... without all the pricing malarkey.
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The thesis that I read, called Digital game-based learning: Towards an experiential gaming model, introduced a model to represent the way that we learn through educational games. Do not that this m...
KF: This one interests me as my incomplete study was entitled "Developing digital games-based process drama as performance". I discussed an approach I call "generative play" - an open-ended, socially driven, real-time drama process framed as a roleplaying game. It is intended that generative polay operates as a constructivist, metaphor-driven enquiry-based approach to learning. Via dirkvl
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The platform, called Class2Go, allows professors the flexibility to incorporate other online tools and to conduct research as they teach.
Class2Go stands out for a variety of reasons. It is open-source, it is nonprofit, it is portable and it is designed not only for teaching but also for research, so Stanford professors will be able to learn about learning as they teach.
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By Dean Hawkinson
I recently listened in on a webinar presented by David Mallon, with Bersin & Associates, called 10 Best Practices in the Next Generation of eLearning. He began by challenging us to think about what makes our learning organizations relevant in today’s environment, and he stated five types of learning that organizations typically use
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Although online learning is hardly new, it's still a bit of a bandwagon issue for some organizations. Some companies feel compelled to go with online learning because it's the thing to do.
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This scorecard is for measuring and quantifying elements of quality within online education programs in higher education. It is an easy-to-use tool for online administrators for program evaluation. By evaluating each of the respective quality indicators within the established categories, an online administrator can determine strengths and weaknesses of their program. The identification of the weaknesses can be used to support program improvement and strategic planning initiatives. The scorecard could also be used to demonstrate to accrediting bodies, elements of quality within the program as well as an overall level of quality.
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Mobility matters-especially at Purdue University. Purdue has developed and deployed a large suite of digital technologies designed to improve student success.
Passport: A learning system that demonstrates academic achievement through customizable badges.
Passport guides students through tasks by providing a framework to submit documents, share links, complete quizzes, or gather approvals. Instructors can follow each student's progress and connect badges with course objectives.
With the system's badge-builder tool, instructors can select different styles, colors, icons and fonts for each badge, or upload their own images. They also can set expiration dates for challenges, or reset tasks when a student's first attempt is not satisfactory.
Achievements — such as essays, online discussions, blog posts and podcasts, to name a few — can then be translated into a numeric-based evaluation system for grading purposes.
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Curtin University initiated its eScholar program in 2009 making funds available for academic staff to implement innovative teaching using Curtin’s extensive suite of learning technologies. The program is based on the philosophy of engaging students with learning technologies that support their growing understanding through authentic and assessable activities.This publication presents the research findings of each of the eScholar projects conducted in 2010 and 2011. Each chapter has undergone a process of double-blind review resulting in high quality descriptions of learning using current and emerging technologies. The publication is divided into 6 sections based on these technologies.University teaching and learning is faced with many challenges. A major one is recognising appropriate learning technologies and their use that support ways in which adults learn. Rapid advances in technologies can easily seduce those with limited understanding of adult learning. This publication offers clear directions founded on teacher and learner experiences grounded in real classroom activity.
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If we want to remain competitive in the 21st century labor market, we need greater access to higher education, and that means breaking the old, exclusive and expensive pattern of colleges and universities.
Experiments like the University of South Carolina's Palmetto College are a good start. This program will allow students with two years of classroom college credits to finish a bachelor's degree online. The program will be fairly limited at first, but as it grows, it may represent a more useful future model for higher education.
The current model simply doesn't work well for our collective or individual economic futures. It requires students to compete for limited slots at expensive schools. It limits the number of people who can access higher education, and it makes the cost prohibitive for many.
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These days, it’s almost impossible to be an educator without implementing some kind of technology in the classroom. From blogging to educational games to online tracking tools, there are numerous tools that educators can take advantage of to cater to an increasingly tech-savvy group of learners. But not everyone knows just how to do that or what is best for students, and with so many options it can feel overwhelming to even get started. That’s where great books on the topic can really come in handy. We’ve put together a list of some of the best edtech reads out there, from essential texts on the subject to cutting-edge research, that will help you learn about and implement educational technologies and curricula that can truly benefit both you and your students.
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A Georgia kindergarten teacher has made more than $1 million selling her lesson plans online for around $9 a pop. Can U.S schools crowdsource their way to better student performance?
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"People often ask us "What's the difference between Poll Everywhere and (some other system)?" We can afford honest transparency because we're one of the better products out there.
This data was collected across 2012, and is being published in September, 2012. We don't have the resources to maintain it continuously, but we are open to corrections and your opinions about how to more fairly present the data until November, 2012.
For legal reasons we must disclaim the accuracy of the information below. That's unfortunate, but we still stand by our research, and we expect that we'll be called out publically if something is incorrect. Contact us if you have an idea for improving the objectivity of this table."
KF: Poll Everywhere publish their findings from an investigation into available audience repsonse systems. The actually results compare only a handful that they've considered, they mention about 30 others that the haven't looked at. I still believe the Hotseat system from Purdue to be one of the more versatile systems around.
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ECAR has surveyed undergraduate students annually since 2004 about technology in higher education. In 2012, ECAR collaborated with 195 institutions to collect responses from more than 100,000 students about their technology experiences. The findings are distilled into the broad thematic message for institutions and educators to balance strategic innovation with solid delivery of basic institutional services and pedagogical practices and to know students well enough to understand which innovations they value the most.
Because of this topic's importance to higher education, The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology is publicly accessible upon publication. Subscribe to receive access to all ECAR research and analysis about IT in higher education.
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FREE Harvard Referencing Generator. Get your Harvard reference automatically generated for you. You'll never need to worry about malformed Harvard references again!
KF: probably something you'd like writers to develop on their own but useful nonetheless for anyone who needs Harvard style and does it infrequently - just be sure to check that the output stays upto date as the style evolves.
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This website has been created for the Grey Literature Strategies project, a 3 year research project investigating best practice strategies for managing and accessing informal publications.
This website will be the place where we can keep the community informed about our project and also encourage discussion and dissemination of ideas and debate on these issues. We will also be setting up and participating in discussions on social media networks as go and creating resource lists and publishing information in a variety of formats. We hope that anyone interested in this issue will engage with the project and help us develop better strategies for the many stakeholders engaged with grey literature including producers, users and collecting organisations.
KF: an interesting dimension of information literacy. Certainly something that could be introduced as part of any educational activity where understanding and assessing information quality are essential.
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This paper shares the findings from a three year Participatory Action Research Study around the selection, implementation and effectiveness of educational technologies for enhancing learning in a Teacher Education subject for second year pre-service primary teachers. The innovative Project-Based subject is described using a critical lens. The paper will share how two lecturers and their students explored their changing roles as teachers and learners and the tensions that emerged between their beliefs about student centred, authentic learning and the role of technology. It will explore the ways the technological innovations began to reshape and inform thinking about teaching and learning practices.
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Post Debates If We Are Really Delivering Knowledge or Just Dishing Out Information.
A learner gains knowledge when he/she uses the provided information to actually do things and receives feedback about what he/she has done. The courses that we create provide the learners with tons of information. However, it is not knowledge until the learner does something with that information. Apply it, criticize it, organize it, or manipulate it if you must, but do something with that information.
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Course Description: Using the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program (ECP) Rubric as a guide, this open course will provide both theoretical concepts and practical tools for instructors to recognize, organize, and build online courses for both blended learners and online learners.
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This webinar will introduce participants to the scorecard, providing a brief rationale and history of its development, directions for using the interactive scoring method, and uses of the scorecard for internal strategies and external reporting and benchmarking.
Webinar Overview:
In this webinar, Dr. Kaye Shelton will introduce the interactive scorecard as a tool for measuring and improving quality with 70 weighted indicators in 9 categories:
- Technology Support - Course Development and Instructional Design - Course Structure - Teaching and Learning - Social and Student Engagement - Faculty Support - Student Support - Evaluation and Assessment
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