Archive for June, 2004


Blended Learning Papers

Two papers from Epic Consulting group - more available on their website.
Blended learning
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by Donald Clark, CEO Epic Group plc
and
Blended learning II
blended learning in practice
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By Mark Harrison, Head of Consulting, Epic Group plc
One thing I like about these papers is this list from page 16 of the first paper:
“It doesn�t make sense […]

Planning Wheel

link to website from Felicia Douglis, Educational Technology Department, San Diego State University.
Personally I’d change the word “content” on the outer wheel to “design” or “learning design”. I printed out the wheel image onto light card, cut out the circles and used a skewer through the middle to make spinning tops, purposely a toy to […]

Mlearn 2003 Conference

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hosted by LSDA in UK. abstracts available but full papers not
Click here to go back m-learning

Mobile-Learning: Reaching the Parts that Others Don’t Reach

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Conference Papers from “Mobile-Learning: Reaching the Parts that Others Don’t Reach” held at University of Wolverhampton, Telford Campus , 23rd June 2003

Mlearning

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David Metcalf’s Resume

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check out the list of publications

Research Insights into Interactivity

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By Brent Muirhead
“Introduction
Interactivity research studies involving online classes reveal that students value their opportunities to communicate with their peers and instructors. The author will briefly highlight student expectations for their online classes, discuss important findings from interaction studies and recommend several instructional ideas to enhance the quality of interaction in today’s distance education […]

Collaborating With Universities to Create a Continuous Learning Culture

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By Pamela Tate & Becky Klein-Collins, April 2004, from Chief Learning Officer
This article talks about the motivators of employees and employers in providing learning in and around the workplace.

Antwork: Convergence, Collaboration

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Rob Wall writes:
‘I refer to it as antwork because it has the characteristic of how ant colonies arise out of the actions of individual ants. Individual ants carry out their actions as individuals, and each individual ant does a miniscule amount of work. But when there are several thousand or tens of thousands […]

Pocket PC Software

Here are the results of some initial searching
What should be included:
PIM - calendar to-do memo contacts
Online web browsing
Adobe Reader for pdf
Windows Media Player
Word and Excel apps
picture viewer for native jpg files
file management so can move files to and from expansion cards
Not sure if included but should be:
image viewing and resizing - jpg gif png -
mp3 […]

A Review of Learning Design: Concept, Specifications and Tools

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A report for the JISC E-learning Pedagogy Programme by Sandy Britain, May 2004
This is a draft report so the location/file name may change. It includes a review of software tools to support IMS Learning Design. As Britain writes on page 2,
· The first general idea behind learning design is that people learn […]

Student Retention in Online Learning

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A Model for Sustainable Student Retention: A Holistic Perspective on the Student Dropout Problem with Special Attention to e-Learning
As the editorial states, ‘In this month’s article Drs. Berge and Haung propose a customizable model of student retention that takes into account personal, circumstantial, and institutional factors, as well as the interconnectedness of these […]

RSS and Education

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from wwwtools for teachers
need to enter email address to read the article, and I particularly liked the section Current Implementations of RSS in Education

Publications of David Boud

Publications of David Boud: UTS Faculty of Education
Some publications are available as PDF’s or as a normal webpage indicated by the icon after the publication name.

AVETRA Conference

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2004 Conference Papers
The seventh Australian VET Research Association Conference
“Learner & Practitioner - the Heart of the Matter”
17-19 March 2004
Refereed Papers | Non Refereed Papers are both available online