Archive for March, 2006


Nigel Paine in Campus Review

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Following on from the seminar last week, the link above is to an interview with Nigel Paine that was published in Campus Review (8 March 06)
Also here is a link to the presentation slides from each presenter
http://www.aesharenet.com.au/Paine_seminar.asp  

Animal Health Assessment materials

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Saving because the URL is too long to write down.

Electronic Portfolios

From Robin Good link to website
“Electronic portfolios or e-portfolios are gaining increasing media attention as potentially highly valuable learning, evaluation and assessment tools for educators, learners and academic organizations.
An e-portfolio is a web-published collection of documents, information, link resources, audio and video clips that showcases the demonstrated abilities, know-how and skills of a specific person […]

Informal Learning

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from Mark Harrison of http://www.kineo.co.uk  comes this 40 page pdf about Informal Learning.
He defines it as:
“all the learning that takes place away from the world of
organised formal training.
It is:
• deep and pervasive (representing over 80% of learning that occurs in
organisations)
• uncontrolled (most is through colleagues and self discovery – without the
training department in […]

Summary of Nigel Paine Seminar

This seminar was hosted by Aesharenet and John Mitchell & Associates. Held March 24th at OTEN in Sydney. Below are a few selected quotes, ideas and suggestions, more detail in the full posts here
‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your foot’ - Dale Spender
From Charles Leadbeater
Reality of Innovation

comes from immersion
fail early […]

Nigel Paine Seminar Part 3

After lunch Louise Turnbull from OTEN spoke to us about a case study “Using technology to do our business better”.
Of the 38,000 students through OTEN, all have access to online learning support, and 3,000 of those actually study online. To get to this point, they took an elearning/ ebusiness approach and linked it closely to […]

Nigel Paine, Part 2

After a quick coffee, we spoke around the table about the things that struck a chord with us.
Our table flagged Simplicity, Sharing of IP (no value in owning content unless information is commercial in confidence, you can find duplicates of most information easily, no ‘handout’ is irreplacable), and Horizontal facilitation which is learners learning from […]

Nigel Paine Seminar in Sydney, March 24th, 2006.

John Mitchell’s introduction included a quote from Friedman, we need to be “working smarter and smarter rather than cheaper and harder”
new ideas need to be connected back to the fundamentals
‘70% of Australians now produce something you cannot drop on your foot’ - Dale Spender
At the start of Nigel’s session he asked us to put down […]

Case study: Holistic assessment

link to website (requires free registration for “Back to Basics”)
Before reinventing the wheel I’ve been looking for templates, examples and so on to support a workshop on clustering units in learning and assessment.
I came across this case study on the Training Packages at Work site. You canalso  view the proforma.
The Bathroom Assessment Project shows teachers […]

Troubleshooting guide

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This document from the Department of Education in WA provides some short simple suggestions about ‘traps to watch out for’ in working with competency based assessment.  This could be quite a useful guide for working with teaching teams, just picking out some sections at a time.

PodPress

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PodPress is a plugin for WordPress to make publishing a podcast feed much easier from Dan Kuykendall of http://www.mightyseek.com/ if I ever get around to podcasting this looks like it wouldl make it all quite easy.

Campfire - web based chat option

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“Campfire lets you set up secure, password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, a colleague, or a vendor to a chat. Set up a room on your intranet for internal communications. Conduct meetings with people around the world. The uses are plentiful. Up to 40 people can chat at once. […]

Presentation Zen: Where to get quotations for presentations?

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included in this post by  Garr Reynolds are a lot of links to sites where quotations can be found for including on presentations and so on.

Facilitating learning through effective teaching

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This is another in the NCVER At A Glance series that synthesise various reports and research on a particular topic.
Authors: Peter Smith, Damian Blake
“Teaching and learning styles in the vocational education and training (VET) sector have changed substantially over the last decade in response to changed national and international conditions. This ‘at a […]

Useful websites for VET/ VTE

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This might be useful for uncovering some new sources for an “information service” that I am thinking about for internal consumption. Also as a link for the online Certificate IV in Training and Assessment course. At 18 pages it is long, but has notes about each site, so is more useful than a […]