LearningTimes Network: Online Conferences and Learning Communities
LearningTimes designs online learning communities and produces programs and events for educational and cultural institutions, non-profit organizations, associations and membership groups. LearningTimes also provides the platforms, applications and promotional expertise that ensure success
Stephen’s Web ~ Papers ~ An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers
An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers
AIM Manufacturing Videos
Faculty Development - The Hammer in Search of a Nail
Faculty Development:
The Hammer in Search of a Nail
by Anne Scrivener Agee, Dee Ann Holisky and Star A. Muir
Details a range of approaches taken by higher ed insitutions in the US.
Ferl: Hot Potatoes User Guide
Hot Potatoes User Guide
http://www.ccm.ac.uk/ltech/cfet/materials/files/file%2013.pdf
LSDA Tutorial introducing the software for easy-to-create quizzes. The various quiz formats (anagrams, multiple choice etc) are covered, with a detailed explanations of their menu options.
Please note this link will display an Adobe Acrobat document (PDF file) in your browser window.
Ferl: What is Ferl?
“Ferl is an information service for all staff working within the Post Compulsory Education sector. It aims to support individuals and organisations in making effective use of ILT (Information Learning Technologies). Ferl does this through a web based information service, conferences, publications and other events.
Ferl is funded by the Learning and Skills […]
NAWeb 03
So - the proposal: a multidisciplinary educational simulation archive. This would be a library of simulatioins built by a consortium of universities. They would have a common API. And they would be designed to be inserted into Word documents and other text processors. Faculty know email, they know browsers, and maybe they know Word […]
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Dr. Joan D. McMahon
Towson University, MD
Dr. Neil Davidson
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
“I could never teach online,” Neil said. “I like being able to reach my students individually.”
“I feel I can reach them and connect with them online just as well or better than F2F,” I retorted.
Our conflicting views launched a brainstorm comparing how we […]
EdTechPost: B.C. Educational Technology Users Group ‘Blogtalk’
“http://etugblog.typepad.com/blogtalk/
Today is officially the last day so I can finally let the cat out of the bag for those who haven’t seen this yet.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, for the past two weeks I’ve been helping to facilitate, along with 4 other educators from B.C., an ‘online […]
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Learning Ecology, Communities, and Networks
Extending the classroom
George Siemens
October 17, 2003
Summary
“Learner-centered, lifelong learning has been the cry of knowledge society visionaries for the last decade. Yet learning continues to be delivered with teacher-centric tools in a twelve week format. Society is changing. Learners needs are changing. The course, as a model for learning, is […]
Informal Learning: A Sound Investment
October 2003 - Jay Cross
Informal learning is effective because it is personal. The individual calls the shots. The learner is responsible. It’s real. How different from formal learning, which is imposed by someone else. Workers are pulled to informal learning; formal learning is pushed at them.
Jeremy Hiebert’s headspaceJ — Instructional Design and Technology
Peter Merholz is taking some interesting notes at the HITS Conference (Humans | Interaction | Technology | Strategy) this week. The conference is focused on interaction design and business strategy, but much of what he’s learning could be translated into e-learning terms without losing any value. In Part […]
Open Source Course Management Systems
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“The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State University.
The ILS may be […]
TAFE VC E Conference 2003~Cultivating Communities
12 November - 14 November, 2003 at TAFE Virtual Campus
From website: “Following on from the huge success of the TAFE VC E Conference 2002, the Office of Training and Tertiary Education (OTTE) and TAFE Frontiers has generously supported an E Conference for 2003.
We’ll be critically exploring initiatives in developing […]
